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#COVID

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Ben Royce 🇺🇦

#Ivermectin was found to help #COVID patients...

patients with parasites

#Ignorance spread "the cure" without the whole picture

Likewise, #VitaminA was found to help #Measles patients...

patients with vitamin A deficiency

And so, ignorance once again:

"West #Texas children treated for vitamin A toxicity as #medical #disinformation spreads alongside measles outbreak"

People think they know better than #scientists and #doctors, and harm themselves and their children

tpr.org/public-health/2025-03-

A sign is posted in German at the entrance of the children's emergency room at Covenant Children's Hospital, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025, in Lubbock, Texas.
TPR · West Texas children treated for vitamin A toxicity as medical disinformation spreads alongside measles outbreakBy David Martin Davies
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Some highlights from @ducky 's weekly roundup at covidbc.webfoot.com/2025/03/28

SARS-CoV-2 can interact with / activate the CD147 receptor to get into lymphocytes (T-cells and B-cells). (sciencedirect.com/science/arti)

women are 13.4 times more likely to get Long COVID if they are 🤰pregnant than if they are 🚫🤰not, with the danger highest if they catch COVID-19 in the third trimester. (sciencedirect.com/science/arti)

the rate of cases of postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) has gone up more than fourteen times compared to pre-pandemic (academic.oup.com/ehjqcco/advan)

covidbc.webfoot.com2025-03-28 General – Pandemics in British Columbia
#CovidCompetent#AirborneAware#CovidIsNotOver
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If you care about COVID-19 research and live in the USA, mastodon.social/@patientled/11 is highly relevant

from @patientled

@broadwaybabyto would you consider boosting patientled's post for visibility?

All slides have the Patient-Led Research Collaborative logo on the top left, illustrations of a green envelope with an arrow on it representing an email being sent, a purple telephone receiver with a couple of curved lines resembling someone calling, and a blue megaphone below with three lines representing an announcement being made. Everything is on a light-grade background. "Attention!" in bold black font. “Thanks to a swift & sustained community response, some research grants are now being restored!” Below is a thin black horizontal separator line the text under that reads, “However, the termination of the Office of Long COVID and the Advisory Committee on Long COVID remains deeply concerning, as it suggests that the administration is deprioritizing this public health crisis. We strongly urge individuals to keep taking action through the 2 initiatives on the following slides led by our partners.”
MastodonPatient-Led Research (@patientled@mastodon.social)Attached: 4 images Attention! Thanks to a swift & sustained community response, some research grants are now being restored! However, the termination of the Office of Long COVID and the Advisory Committee on Long COVID remains deeply concerning, as it suggests that the administration is deprioritizing this public health crisis. We strongly urge individuals to keep taking action through the 2 initiatives led by our partners (links in bio).
#COVID#COVID19#SARSCoV2
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ˈdälfən™🐬 💥 🌊

"He's quite concerned about the integrity of the scientific enterprise," Dr. Lurie (a former FDA associate commissioner) said, "and I share his concern that the secretary is making truth subservient to his own personal beliefs, which appear not to be grounded in science."

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#USA #USGov #health #PublicHealth #vaccines #COVID

nytimes.com/live/2025/03/28/us

Dr. Marks did not respond to a request for comment. A spokesman for H.H.S., issued a statement Friday night: "If Peter Marks does not want to get behind restoring science to its golden standard and promoting radical transparency, then he has no place at F.D.A. under the strong leadership of Secretary Kennedy." Dr. Marks steered the F.D.A's vaccine program during the tumultuous years of the coronavirus pandemic, guiding the agency and its outside advisers through multiple decisions about the kind of evidence that was necessary to grant emergency authorization for the vaccines produced under the Trump administration's Operation Warp Speed initiative. In June 2022, he pleaded with a committee of outside experts to consider the danger the virus posed to children younger than 5; the panel voted later that day to recommend vaccines for that age group. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03/28/us/trump-greenland-vance-news#fda-vaccines-rfk-jr-peter-marks Accessed: 28 March 2025 at 2117 MST
"We have to be careful that we don't become numb to the number of pediatric deaths because of the overwhelming number of older deaths here," Dr. Marks said at the time. Dr. Peter Hotez, a vaccine expert from Baylor University, said he spoke with Dr. Marks regularly during the pandemic. "He was extraordinarily committed to using science to help the American people," he said. "He was one of the heroes of the pandemic, so I'm sorry to see him go." Dr. Peter Lurie, a former F.D.A. associate commissioner, called it "a real tragedy" when someone like Dr. Marks runs afoul of "these alleged distortions." "He's quite concerned about the integrity of the scientific enterprise," Dr. Lurie said, "and I share his concern that the secretary is making truth subservient to his own personal beliefs, which appear not to be grounded in science." https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03/28/us/trump-greenland-vance-news#fda-vaccines-rfk-jr-peter-marks Accessed: 28 March 2025 at 2117 MST
Mr. Kennedy was confirmed by the Senate after a tense two days of hearings that included his repeated pledges to uphold the importance of vaccinations. But he has already begun to show signs that he is continuing the type of activities he engaged in for 20 years to deeply undermine vaccine confidence. During the measles outbreak in Texas, he has promoted the value of alternative medicines and issued tepid advice for people to get vaccinations. Despite a federal hiring freeze, his agency recently hired a prominent researcher in the anti- vaccine movement to study the long- discredited link between vaccines and autism. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03/28/us/trump-greenland-vance-news#fda-vaccines-rfk-jr-peter-marks Accessed: 28 March 2025 at 2117 MST
And on Thursday, Mr. Kennedy said on NewsNation that he planned to create a vaccine injury agency within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He said the effort was a priority for him and would help bring "gold-standard science" to the federal government. Dr. Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, said the study of vaccine injuries has already been a priority for decades. "I fear this is a way to emphasize vaccine injuries in a way that's completely disproportionate to what the real risk is," he said. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03/28/us/trump-greenland-vance-news#fda-vaccines-rfk-jr-peter-marks Accessed: 28 March 2025 at 2117 MST
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ˈdälfən™🐬 💥 🌊

Top F.D.A. vaccine official resigns (under pressure), writing:

… that RFK Jr.’s “aggressive stance on vaccines was irresponsible and posed a danger to the public.”

And further:

“It has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.” 👀

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#USA #USGov #health #PublicHealth #vaccines #COVID

nytimes.com/live/2025/03/28/us

Top F.D.A. vaccine official resigns, citing Kennedy's 'misinformation and lies.' The Food and Drug Administration's top vaccine official, Dr. Peter Marks, resigned Friday. Greg Nash https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03/28/us/trump-greenland-vance-news#fda-vaccines-rfk-jr-peter-marks Accessed: 28 March 2025 at 2117 MST
The Food and Drug Administration's top vaccine official, Dr. Peter Marks, abruptly resigned Friday, saying in a searing letter that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr's aggressive stance on vaccines was irresponsible and posed a danger to the public. "It has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies," Dr. Marks wrote to Sara Brenner, the agency's acting commissioner. Dr. Marks resigned under pressure, according to a person familiar with the matter who said an official with the Department of Health and Human Services told Dr. Marks on Friday that he could either resign or be fired. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03/28/us/trump-greenland-vance-news#fda-vaccines-rfk-jr-peter-marks Accessed: 28 March 2025 at 2117 MST
Hours earlier in West Virginia, Mr. Kennedy asserted that Covid did not kill healthy people, contrary to research showing that 30 percent of those who died early in the pandemic did not have underlying conditions. Mr. Kennedy has also extolled the value of vitamin A as a treatment during a major measles outbreak in Texas, while downplaying the value of vaccines. On Thursday, he announced that he was creating a new office to study vaccine injuries. Dr. Marks noted in his letter that measles, "which killed more than 100,000 unvaccinated children last year in Africa and Asia," because of complications, "had been eliminated from our shores." He added that he had been willing to address Mr. Kennedy's concerns about vaccine safety and transparency with a series of public meetings and by working with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, but was rebuffed. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03/28/us/trump-greenland-vance-news#fda-vaccines-rfk-jr-peter-marks Accessed: 28 March 2025 at 2117 MST
"Undermining confidence in well- established vaccines that have met the high standards for quality, safety and effectiveness that have been in place for decades at F.D.A. is irresponsible, detrimental to public health, and a clear danger to our nation's health, safety and security," Dr. Marks wrote. He went on to express his desire for the current administration's damage to be limited. "My hope is that during the coming years, the unprecedented assault on scientific truth that has adversely impacted public health in our nation comes to an end so that the citizens of our country can fully benefit from the breadth of advances in medical science," Dr. Marks wrote. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03/28/us/trump-greenland-vance-news#fda-vaccines-rfk-jr-peter-marks Accessed: 28 March 2025 at 2117 MST
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Nonilex

“It has become clear that #truth & #transparency are not desired by the secretary [#RFKJr], but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his #misinformation & #lies,” Dr. Marks wrote to Sara Brenner, the #FDA’s acting commissioner.

Hours earlier in WV, RFKJr asserted that #Covid did not kill healthy people, contrary to research showing that 30% of those who died early in the #pandemic did not have underlying conditions.

#Trump#idiocracy#medicine
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Julie Webgirl - Just Your Luck

From the Disney+ streaming show #DoctorOdyssey:

Doc comes in and l crew are playing poker:

Doc: "please allow me to sweeten the pot. What is the one thing that we never gamble with here on the Odyssey?"

Crew: "Real money?"

Doc: "No. Health & safety. The latest #Covid boosters have arrived. Who's first? Hmm? Ok I'll go first."

Crew #1: valid medical excuse

Crew #2: "I've had Covid 4x by now I'm a walking antibody"

Crew #3: "I can't afford to be out for days from booster"

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Pierre Lindenbaum

🇫🇷 radiofrance.fr/franceculture/p

Dominique Costagliola . " J'étais en train de me préparer quand j'ai entendu sonner à la porte. Je ne voyais pas du tout qui ça pourrait être. J'ai donc continué à boire mon café. Mais derrière la porte, on insistait. En ouvrant, je n'ai pas du tout compris ce qui se passait. J'ai vu trois gendarmes qui avaient un air énervé, voire franchement désagréable. Ils étaient là pour une perquisition." #COVID #France

Les Pieds sur scène : épisode 2/2 du podcast 2020 : ce qui nous est arrivé | Radio France
France CultureLes Pieds sur scène : épisode 2/2 du podcast 2020 : ce qui nous est arrivé | Radio FranceAUDIO • 2020 : ce qui nous est arrivé, épisode 2/2 : Les Pieds sur scène. Une série inédite proposée par France Culture. Écoutez Les Pieds sur terre, et découvrez nos podcasts en ligne.
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An article I won't link is titled "Brain Fog Is Here to Stay"

Imagine saying since the huge increase in brain fog after 2020 includes folks with who haven't been diagnosed with Long COVID, the brain fog can't be because of previous COVID infections.

I can see the placards now: No causality without diagnosis!

The author has brain fog herself, and she's clearly in a tremendously challenging local situation as her article does communicate, so fine, but her editors still OK'ed and published an article based on a ridiculous premise.

Last year, a large study of adults in the U.K. found that 28 percent reported brain fog associated with “functional impairments,” and while it’s tempting to chalk that figure up to long COVID, the version of the disease that can last for months or years, the survey didn’t bear this out. Long COVID was just one predictor of brain fog, along with migraines, concussions, and being a middle-aged woman. So, if it isn’t only that, what is fogging up our thoughts?

There ARE other causes of brain fog. Folks with ME/CFS have heard of "fibro fog"; fighters know of "punch drunk", the list goes on. Cases from 2018 and earlier weren't Long COVID, though many cases do seem to be postviral conditions.

But this logic is awful and the fact that editors would print a piece that is completely based on a fallacy - well I guess I know not to trust The Cut as a publication.

I won't link to it, to not give false logic the traffic.

#LongCOVID#COVID#COVID19
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Dominik Steiger

#Covid

Die 1. Figur zeigt kumulative Inzidenz seit Vorjahreszeitpunkt und reziprok die Zeit zwischen Infektionen.

Die Tabelle gibt kumulative Inzidenzen gemäss den Kalibrierungen.

3. und 4. Figur Virenlast Varianten, Zürich und Lugano.

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