Kelly-Anne Bryan, RN

YOUR ATTENTION: 🚨Every new COVID-19 (re)infection elevates your cardiovascular risk profile. Even mild cases can raise the odds of a heart attack, stroke, heart failure, and other CV events for months to years afterward. Risk is higher with more severe illness, yes, but it’s certainly not limited to severe disease. Updated vaccination will show some mitigation(infection severity↓) but doesn’t give you a risk-free pass! #AvoidSars2 #AvoidReinfections #UpdateVaccination ➡️Supportive links: 1. Xie et al., Nature Medicine (2022): Long-term cardiovascular outcomes of COVID-19 (elevated risk even in non-hospitalized patients, graded by severity). nature.com/articles/s41591-0… 2. American Heart Association news release (2024) on the UK Biobank analysis (≈2× risk of heart attack/stroke/death for up to 3 years after any COVID-19 infection). newsroom.heart.org/news/covi… 3. Lindgren et al., Journal of Internal Medicine (2026): Nationwide Swedish matched cohort (nearly doubled long-term MACE and death risk in hospitalized cases, persisting beyond year 1). onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… 4. Hadidchi et al., Journal of Human Hypertension (2026): Elevated CV outcomes (including in non-hospitalized patients) among those with pre-existing hypertension. nature.com/articles/s41371-0… 5. CARTESIAN study, European Heart Journal (2025): Accelerated vascular aging / arterial stiffness after COVID-19, including mild cases: academic.oup.com/eurheartj/a… ➡️These five links give a clear progression from the early 2022 data through 2024–2026 confirmation!!

Working thread of published research on COVID 19. Every claim links to a real study. Published, peer-reviewed research from journals like Nature, The Lancet, BMJ, and Nature Medicine. Not speculation, this is what the mainstream science says. Please take it seriously.

Today, people will kill other people by giving them covid. Today, people will disable other people by giving them covid. It's the simple truth. If you don't like it, it's still true. If you don't want it to be true, it's still true.

⚠️Flu season to start early in Northern hemisphere due to mutated H1N1 (G155E). 3 critical points: ✴️Percentage of positive tests for influenza extremely high for this time of the year in Japan, UK, US. ✴️Sequencing confirms H1N1 mutation (G155E) which exhibits some immune escape. ✴️Last years terrible flu season was H3N2 (Clade K), this years seasons is starting even earlier and will be H1N1 (Mutation G155E). #Influenza nature.com/articles/d41586-0…

"you spend so much time worrying about COVID when anything could take you out. Cancer, ALS, MS, heart attack. The stress you're causing yourself worrying about it is causing you more harm, creating inflammation in your tissues. It's not good" My reply: Yeah you're right, but I don't spend my time worrying about it I spend it trying to warn people about it and trying to get policy makers to change policies that would work to protect the public. Funny you would bring up Cancer, ALS, MS, heart attacks, all of which are being linked to Covid infections, so I guess I am thinking about those as well. When HIV and AIDS first emerged it took advocacy to get policies such as glove wearing, blood screening, instrument sanitation, needle disposal, education programs etc to be standard procedures, all of which I have no doubt you have benefited from in one way or another in your life. It took 60 years of steady advocacy and education to get smoking removed from public spaces, yet another thing that was done by advocates. So while i appreciate your concern for my physical and mental health, my biggest worry is that people like you, who I know are very intelligent and educated, think Covid is nothing to worry about. Here is almost 500,000 publications that convince me that advocating for safety from this virus is needed and worth risking some grey hairs. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/co…

My Dad had a stroke around a month ago. He's Covid educated and knows getting Covid will put him at extra risk. He's still in hospital and he's upset tonight that the nurse was constantly coughing over him. He's got a nasal feeding tube in so it's difficult for him to mask.

Mass General Brigham studied 84 young people. Those with Long COVID had more fibrin microclots and vessel injury. In lab tests, Spike immune complexes made neutrophils release DNA traps that damaged vessel lining cells. nature.com/articles/s41390-0…

Determinants and Consequences of Long Impact of COVID-19: A National Cross-Sectional Study in Saudi Arabia 🔥There we go again: 32% "Long COVID affects approximately ONE-THIRD of COVID-19 survivors in Saudi Arabia, imposing a significant healthcare and socioeconomic burden. These findings highlight the need for swift action and policy implementation within the health care system to mitigate long-term consequences." (June 2023 and December 2024, 1790 adults with PCR-confirmed COVID-19 infection) #AvoidSars2 #AvoidReinfections mdpi.com/2077-0383/15/15/590…

If you have felt discouraged lately, it is important to remember you are living through a tragedy. It is not your personal flaw but rather because at this pivotal moment in human history, there is a tension between doing what is right for society and the negative consequences pushed on you as an individual. Acknowledging this reality can bring moral insight, something that must be encountered, and not merely explained away. That insight can bring a sense of nobility or selflessness in your pain.

“The Toronto Board of Health passed a motion recommending that the Province of Ontario update the Ontario Building Code to incorporate ASHRAE Standard 241 and Guideline 44-2024… (1/2) ospe.on.ca/advocacy/a-major-…

Today was the last day of term at one of our local schools, and after I did the end of term assembly, one of the teachers asked if I could stick around and meet a class to answer some questions. I had an hour free, so I did.

This is a statue of the only man in Troy who saw the trap. He tried to warn everyone, and this is what the gods did to him because of it... His name was Laocoön, a Trojan priest. When the Greek army vanished and left a giant wooden horse outside the city gates, all of Troy celebrated. Only Laocoön refused to believe it. He warned his people the horse was a trick and, to prove it was hollow, hurled his spear into its side. In Virgil's telling, he spoke a line that has outlasted almost everything else about Troy: "I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts." He was right. The horse was packed with soldiers, and Troy was hours from destruction. This sculpture shows what he got for it. Two enormous sea serpents rise out of the sea and coil around him and his young sons, dragging all three down together. The father's whole body is knotted in the struggle, every muscle straining, his face locked in a scream. The gods wanted Troy to fall, and Laocoön was in the way. The Trojans watched him die in agony and drew exactly the wrong conclusion: they decided the gods were punishing him for attacking a holy gift. So they pulled the horse inside their own walls, and that night, Troy burned... The statue is called Laocoön and His Sons. It is the work of three Greek sculptors from the island of Rhodes, Agesander, Athenodoros, and Polydorus, and dates to the Hellenistic period, making it well over two thousand years old. Buried for more than a thousand years, it was dug out of a Roman vineyard in 1506, and Michelangelo rushed across Rome to see it the day it was found. It has been called the single greatest depiction of human suffering in the history of art, but it endures because of what it is really about: the man who sees the truth, says it out loud, and is destroyed for being right while the crowd watches... It is one of the oldest patterns there is, and it has never stopped repeating. There is nothing new under the sun.

🚨 2 *HUGE* WINS for children's health have just been written into DfE statutory guidance - and the media didn't notice them! If your child is Clinically Vulnerable due to asthma or allergies, this changes what you can demand from their school. 1/🧵 clinicallyvulnerable.org/pos…

– Surely you had pre-existing conditions?

Not Good… 🦠Following infection, Ebola virus can survive unnoticed in the human body for months or even years, hiding in areas with little immune surveillance like the central nervous system. In doing so, it poses the danger of triggering an Ebola virus disease relapse or even a new outbreak.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised that saying most kids have had COVID multiple times is "controversial" since according to this 2024 Ipsos poll, half of Americans believe they'll never get COVID again. I'd imagine the % who don't want to learn more is even higher.

I’m visiting a retirement home. I’m the only one masked. :/ I certainly don’t want to be the one getting anyone sick. So I mask even though nobody else seems to care. #MaskUp #CommunityCare

A multi-omics paper on long COVID in Frontiers in Immunology deserves more attention than it got. The through-line is uncomfortable - the cellular power supply stays switched off long after the acute phase is over.🧵