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Just received concerning data coming soon from UCLA and Mount Sinai clinicians about lymphopenia, covid and breast cancer metastases. Sadly our concerns of the increasing incidence of metastatic disease and recurrences of patients in remission following Covid and worse with lymphopenia is being validated. Data soon at AACR this month.
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World Health Network was featured in The Guardian as experts urge the WHO to update global guidance: surgical masks are inadequate, and respirators should be standard protection in healthcare settings.
Evidence-based public health matters.
Read the full article here: theguardian.com/global-devel…
#PublicHealth #MaskUp #Masking #COVID19 #COVID #InfectionPrevention
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Preventing nosocomial infection is not primarily about individual behaviour.
It is about systems, including:
• ventilation and air quality
• ward design and airflow
• cohorting and zoning
• surveillance and outbreak detection
• governance and oversight
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Not good to see the rise in p-tau181, a blood biomarker of brain inflammation tied to increased risk of Alzheimer's disease, in a prospective cohort (mean age 56 years) with #LongCovid and neurological symptoms
thelancet.com/journals/ebiom… @eBioMedicine
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I really really wish I didn’t follow the “it’s okay to unmask now” in 2023 and wish I carried on against everyone around me telling me it’s now fine. If I did carry on masking I may not have long Covid now. My first infection was in 2023 when I unmasked. Don’t make my mistake.
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Would like to note that many of us who are virologists, microbiologists m, immunologists and ID specialists have had this fear since the beginning of just given the nature of corona viruses
Personally, imo there is enough evidence to state it is. Why do I believe that?
“A growing number of scientists believe the SARS-CoV-2 virus may be subtly altering our immune systems. If correct, their hypothesis will change how we understand everything from RSV to shingles to sepsis.”
“It’s certainly impacting our immune health & probably.. overall health”
ALT Screenshot of BMJ article: Feature Covid-19 Why scientists are rethinking the immune effects of SARS-CoV-2 BMJ 2025; 390 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.r1733 (Published 19 August 2025) Cite this as: BMJ 2025;390:r1733
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::Politely coughs::
Hey, who remembers March 2023, when the NIH was like, “SARS-CoV-2 inflicts long term damage to the immune system like HIV or hepatitis C,” and then we did nothing? nih.gov/news-events/news-rel…
ALT NIH: “Taken together, the investigators write, these findings suggest that SARS-CoV-2 infection damages the CD8+ T cell response, an effect akin to that observed in earlier studies showing long-term damage to the immune system after infection with viruses such as hepatitis C or HIV. The new findings highlight the need to develop vaccination strategies to specifically boost antiviral CD8+ T cell responses in people previously infected with SARS-CoV-2, the researchers conclude.”
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I wonder how many of the unmasked have contributed to folk contracting Covid and now those folk suffer from LC or maybe caused someone or their loved ones death.
A loved ones death from my giving them covid is not what I want on my conscience so I'll continue to mask.
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This “leftie mask debate” feels like diversion.
We don’t mask because it’s our identity - we mask because we understand SarsCov2 better than the average person. That’s all that needs to be said.
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What happens when more than half of our population has LC?
In Greater Manchester, UK, researchers studying 26,626 Long COVID cases found the risk doubled with each COVID infection, rose 5.7% per comorbidity, and was highest among Black, Mixed ethnicity, and socially disadvantaged individuals.
BMI had no effect.
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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I had a planning session recently for a summer event, and the person sitting opposite me said, "We're currently short of volunteers because lots of them are struggling with pain, tiredness, and health problems."
Which is exactly what I predicted would happen if we let Covid rip.
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Im gonna keep wearing a mask every single day when Im in crowded spaces, bc I have the resources to do so, I care about my health, and I care about other people more than my own comfort. And I'm really really proud of everyone else doing the same.
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Staff member turned up to work sick yesterday. It was an insight into ‘living with’ infection culture.
I told them to go home. ‘No, I’m fine, I have too much to do.’
Then others in the office approached me in private to ask me to make them go home.
/1
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The facts are very clear (if you look at actuarial data, disability numbers, excess death rates, etc.), but people can't handle the facts. It would mean having to change their lives.
We should at least improve indoor air quality- filtration, UV-C & requires no behavior change.
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Medical Journalism is a problem
No doctor (esp generalists) has time to read all original research papers (where there is clear evidence)
They rely of digests in the general medical journals (sometimes jokingly(?) called ‘the comics’
These suffer inertia & political influence
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OMG I’ve just spoken to a lovely GP who told me there’s a huge problem with Long Covid, that the government is just brushing it under the carpet & that she was going to go away & learn as much as she can about MCAS. I rarely post these days, so it’s nice to share a hopeful tale!
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Our Long COVID clinic continues to receive about 100 new referrals a month. The people infected from the most recent variant have the same symptoms and severity as the Delta and Omicron group, unfortunately
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Doctors Warn COVID-19 Could Be a Hidden Trigger for Heart Attacks Long After Recovery scitechdaily.com/doctors-war…