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New Pandemic Accountability Index! https://www.panaccindex.info/p/what-covid-19-does-to-the-body-11th Some highlights:
In general,
there is still ample reason to protect yourself from repeated infections with COVID-19. This virus is still killing and disabling
Long COVID is not going away:
“…up to 3 years after initial infection…less than 2% having resolved” (Lancet Regional Health Americas)
In kids,
“…post-COVID-19 children exhibited marked post-acute impairments in school functioning, increased emotional and behavioral problems followed by heterogeneous recovery trajectories.” (Nature Scientific Reports)
and it's not all in kids' minds, it shows in their retinas:
Retinal microvascular alterations consistent with endothelial dysregulation in paediatric post-COVID-19 syndrome (Nature Scientific Reports)
Evidence keeps accumulating that kids' immune systems are not spared:
Immune-metabolic trajectories delineate subgroups in paediatric long COVID (Nature Communications)
What about in adults? Bad news for everyone with a brain:
“…SARS-CoV-2 directly infects the brain, induces neuroinflammation, pericyte death, and multiple perivascular changes in the brain.” (MDPI Viruses)
and
Persistent neurological and behavioral alterations after SARS-CoV-2 infection (Frontiers in Microbiology)
and
“…advanced COVID-19 is genetically associated with accelerated global brain aging.” (Medicine)
and
Association of Prodromal Parkinson’s Disease-Like Features in Long COVID (Journal of Sleep Research)
In particular, healthcare workers' burden is greater:
“Essential workers who developed COVID-19 have white matter dysregulation” (Brain, Behavior, & Immunity - Health)
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“[Long COVID] symptoms persisted up to four years after aSCV2 infection in a substantial proportion of HCWs” (Infection)
then there's papers showing heart disease risks spiking due to previous COVID-19 infections. Lots of studies confirming earlier results.
What about the immune system?
“SARS-CoV-2 causes lasting immune dysregulation for over 20 months.” (International Journal of Infectious Diseases)
and
“…multiple chronic viruses reactivate during acute COVID-19” (Nature)
with an early result:
Persistent T cell phenotypic alterations and early innate immune dysregulation as potential biomarkers of Long COVID (Journal of Infection)
and the cold, heartless perspective also aligns with prevention:
“…new cases of long COVD could create a major drag on the economy amounting to USD 135 billion per annum” (OECD)
and
COVID-19 was associated with an estimated 290,000 to 450,000 hospitalizations and 34,000 to 53,000 deaths from July 2024 to June 2025 (CDC)
Compare to the 9/11 Twin Towers deaths. in 2025 alone, COVID-19 caused five to ten 9/11s of deaths!
That's only a tiny fraction of the snippets - visit https://www.panaccindex.info/p/what-covid-19-does-to-the-body-11th for direct links to papers, and to many more quotes.
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How very remarkable that COVID-19 [sic: formatting] is why
'we are experiencing high demand',
while also
justifying no health restrictions anywhere because
'the pandemic is over' [sic].So remarkable, in fact, that _upon it, I'm right now remarking!_
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Hospitals are dangerous places. Air purification would mitigate the risk. Too bad most infection control professionals have voted for job security over patient safety, as I recently experienced up close and personally.
This is by no means the first paper to make these points.
> Despite good air quality (mean CO2 614 ppm), 39% of air samples had SARS-CoV-2 RNA.
> Hot spots for risk in the emergency ward include the acute care and waiting area.
> In critical care, hot spots include the tearoom and corridors near infected rooms.
> The risk of nosocomial outbreaks may be mitigated through air purifiers and masks.
Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in aerosol and surface samples in high acuity hospital settings during community epidemic waves – implications for risk-based infection control
https://www.resmedjournal.com/article/S0954-6111%2826%2900080-6/fulltext
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This is a great bluesky thread that runs through the major papers published in 2020 about what we knew then about #COVID.
Its an impressive list and a major scientific accomplishment. Most of the major risks and issues were at least pointed at in rough by the end of 2020.
Not withstanding the six solid years of Merchants of Doubt suppression tactics, the Urgency of Normal risk minimization, and the political war to memory hole & normalize an ongoing pandemic, the shape of a systemic, multi-organ impacting, immune damaging, neurotropic vasculitis was visible in outline.
The knowledge base has gotten much larger in six years, but the trend has gone in just one direction.
You can also see the timeline on this very useful web site: https://covid-studies.org
https://bsky.app/profile/itsmeder.bsky.social/post/3mahynbqzfc2t
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long pauses, excessive use of filler words and difficulty finding what to say could signify deteriorating brain health. [1]
Um, two of those are among the most commonly noticeable changes in people post-acute-COVID-19:
One group of [Long COVID] symptoms that can be particularly troubling are language and cognitive difficulties [2]
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Trouble finding words is common in those with long Covid. Fine-grain investigations of cognitive problems in this post-acute infectious syndrome identify deficits in lexical retrieval.
Damnit.
[1] https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/article/how-speech-patterns-evolve-could-predict-cognitive-decline-canadian-research-team-suggests/
[2] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10286899/
[3] https://www.bps.org.uk/research-digest/trouble-finding-words-common-those-long-covid#aphasia #LongCovid #COVID #COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #SARS2 #CovidIsNotOver #neuroscience #neurology #brain
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“The fight in the big pandemic public health story has moved from proving COVID is airborne to building a public health system that acts like it.” - Yaneer Bar-Yam
#LongCOVID #COVIDisNotOver #SARS2 #COVIDisAirborne
This Physicist Says We Don't Take COVID Seriously Enough via @thetyee https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2025/10/31/Physicist-COVID-Seriously-Enough/ -
⚠️ This implies that in survivors of mild COVID-19, which is most people, over 1 in 3 cases of new-onset dementia is due to COVID-19 ⚠️
adults aged 50 years and older from the UK Biobank over a median observational period exceeding two years following COVID-19 infection
compared with those in propensity-score-matched controls without COVID-19 and in individuals with non-COVID respiratory illnesses
COVID-19 survivors had a higher likelihood of developing new-onset dementia compared to uninfected controls
association between COVID-19 and all-cause dementia (adjusted Hazard Ratio: 1.58)
The underlying pathophysiology likely involves prothrombotic, inflammatory, and microvascular dysfunction mechanisms, contributing to cerebral small vessel disease, blood-brain barrier disruption, and chronic cerebral hypoperfusion, ultimately leading to cognitive impairments and dementia
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44400-025-00034-y
#SARSCoV2 #COVID #COVID19 #CovidIsNotOver #SARS2 #MaskUp #dementia #biobank #LongCOVID
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Headline: "Scientists reveal the one Covid symptom you may be stuck with for life"
Reader, I promise you, if you get stuck with only one Long COVID symptom for life and it's reduced taste and smell, you have won the lottery.
When they talk about
“olfactory training to ‘rewire’ the brain’s response to odours”.
it is fantasy, and it is ignoring organ damage and immune senescence and cognitive decline and and and and.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/covid-symptom-stratus-no-smell-b2837587.html
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If you live in BC please please take a moment to tell WorkSafe BC that it is of life and death importance that healthcare standards reflect the info available in 2025 from the CSA, and not from 20 freaking 18
Input stops this Friday, Sept 26th - it's urgent!
More info and links to where you can give input: https://zeroes.ca/@DoNoHarmBC/115239899816344735
Please! This advocacy could save lives!
- and shorten hospital wait times, reduce healthcare worker attrition, the burden on society, and so on. But most importantly, respirators in healthcare will directly save lives. Share the link https://zeroes.ca/@DoNoHarmBC/115239899816344735 for reach, too!
#COVID #COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #CovidIsNotOver #COVIDIsAirborne #SARS2 #CleanAir #maskUp #BC #BCpoli #Canada #CDNPoli #healthcare
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2025_8_19 The symptoms are coming from inside the house.
2026-3-9 edit: A previous version of this page held steps you can take during the acute infection to lower your risk of Long Covid, or lower the severity of how a reinfection will worsen your existing Long Covid.
Information on supporting a FULL recovery from SARS-CoV-2 is now more accessible on its own permalink page here, or from the top bar: Information > Got a Covid Infection?
https://www.illmarks.com/symptoms-are-coming-long-covid-prevention-tips/
#allergy #art #backToSchool #backtoschool #besafe #bodyHorror #bodyMapping #cdc #chronicIllness #covid #covidIsAirborne #covidIsNotOver #covid19 #covid19 #covidcompetent #CovidIsntOver #environmental #health #healthcare #longCovid #longcovid #maskUp #maskup #mastCell #mastCellActivationSyndrome #mastCellDisease #mastcell #mcas #medArt #medart #medblog #medicalArt #MillionsMissing #pwme #SaltingTheVibes #SaltingTheVibes #sarsCov2 #sars2 #sciArt #SciArt #WearAMask #WearARespirator
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“I'm going to try to change your perspective on #COVID in under 2 minutes and I'm going to use this tweet as a springboard.”
#SARS2 #COVID19 #pandemic #education #discussion #health #chronicillness #LongCOVID #AirborneAIDS
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This past Saturday, my wife and I went bowling and then gathered with a dozen or so people to play tabletop games and chat. In person, with no worries at all about our #Covid safety while the #SARS2 #virus runs rampant.
Why not? Because we and everyone around us was wearing a respirator mask, almost all of them #N95 or better. 🧵
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Australian-led trial shows nasal spray reduces COVID-19 risk
> a nasal spray containing interferon-alpha (IFN-α), a naturally occurring protein with broad antiviral activity, could reduce the risk of #COVID19 infection by 40% compared to placebo.
Coverage of paper:
Interferon-α Nasal Spray Prophylaxis Reduces COVID-19 in Cancer Patients: A Randomized, Double-Blinded, Placebo-Controlled Trial
https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid/ciaf409/8241089
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Went to a regional hospital in my red state for medical imaging today. Because I've got health vulnerabilities and I have yet to get a case of Covid, I wore a mask. Also, why not?
In, registration at the front desk, waiting area, actual registration, imaging check-in, imaging waiting area, imaging lab, rest room, free coffee stand by hospital gift shop, out. About an hour and a half.
Never saw another mask.
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7/ Then even that modest forum where opponents of universal infection could sometimes be heard was bought and ruined, and an already dim public awareness of what the #SARS2 #virus could and often did do to the human body faded into oblivion. Even reminding people about it by the simple act of wearing a mask on one’s face to avoid infection became socially unacceptable.
You probably weren’t going to get hired if you refused to breathe the unfiltered air of the person interviewing you. You might even get fired if you managed to get through the interview without a mask or infection and then showed up with the mask. You certainly would have less of a chance of getting promoted, even without the retreats and team-building exercises that demanded everyone not just share the same vision but also the same collection of airborne pathogens.
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5/ There was, however, a problem with the vaccines. They were simply not up to the task of preventing infection and the insidious harm of hosting a virus that could mutate past everyone’s immune systems—vaccinated or not—within months of its massive and sustained global spread circulation while damaging those immune systems in those it infected.
What was initially treated as the unfortunate anomaly of a “breakthrough infection” among perhaps 10% of vaccinated people became the norm by 2022. If you had gotten the last of a seemingly endless series of boosters (note: this writer has had five) within the previous month or two, you might have half the chance of paying host to #SARS2 as someone next to you in the restaurant who had never been vaccinated at all. And six months later, after your antibodies were gone, after the virus had evolved some more, the difference in odds was hardly worth considering.
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2/ These holdouts sometimes tried to assure themselves and each other, in the quiet sterile substitute of online interactions, that wearing an #N95 was no big deal, that you could do pretty much everything like before excepted masked. But then in other postings on the same forums, they would speak of friends lost, families estranged, career opportunities missed.
There was a terrible cost to this vigilance. And yet it was a cost worth paying, because the #SARS2 virus charged a much higher price for its repeated visits to the bodies of its hosts.
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New research finds #COVID19 vaccination prior to infection does not affect the neurological symptoms of #longCOVID
> researchers found that vaccination prior to COVID-19 infection did not significantly affect neurological symptoms in long COVID patients, both in patients who had a severe infection that required hospitalization and those with a mild infection who did not require hospitalization.
Paper:
https://academic.oup.com/braincomms/article/7/1/fcae448/7920652?login=false
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Imagine a faith that puts the well-being of people ahead of corporate interests in 2025.
https://www.stmargaretscedarcottage.ca/why-are-we-still-masking.html
THIS is what living a moral life can look like. Caring about others, refusing to perpetuate false narratives, protecting oneself, following evidence as it accumulates.
BONUS: THIS WEEK they're selling ultra-quiet air purifiers at a discount, to fundraise https://www.stmargaretscedarcottage.ca/order-your-air-cleaner.html
h/t a zero :mastomask: 👍
#BC #Vancouver #CovidIsNotOver #AirborneAware #CovidCompetent #COVID #COVID19 #SARS2 #religion #faith
