Dar: Air on the side of caution

Still masking.
ME/CFS = I can't afford to get c0v*d.

[Dar: Air on the side of caution @Dar52599441]

@COVID19_disease This is in line with previous data showing *recentness* of v-x to be important.

"...compared individuals who received a fourth dose with closely matched counterparts who had received three doses but had not yet received a fourth at the same calendar time."

[charlos @loscharlos]

“In first months of life, roughly 85% of an infant’s calorie intake goes toward neural development. A serious infection can reduce how much a baby eats & divert calories away building a brain.”

“it might impact brain development by diverting.. resources to fighting an illness.”

[charlos @loscharlos]

“The authors had to control for parental income, education & employment across municipalities with higher & lower infection rates. Yet the pattern was clear: Earnings, education & mental health outcomes all declined as community disease exposure rose.” https://t.co/wl7JFCteGF

[tern @1goodtern]

https://t.co/edaG6ar1A0

[Dar: Air on the side of caution @Dar52599441]

Reminding myself that Allen is extremely problematic, even if I agree with his latest Atlantic opinion piece on hanta. Oh, and that time he decided that planes are germ-free, lol...

[Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran]

Clean air advocates beware: Joseph Allen has consistently argued against COVID protections and supported mass infection policies.

We need leaders who fight for equity at the center of the clean air movement, not people who have caused harm to the people most impacted.

[Cat in the Hat 🐈‍⬛ 🎩 🇬🇧 @_CatintheHat]

A clear example of this issue of unreliable test results in the first few days of symptoms is the British man who is currently in hospital in Johannesburg:

▪️24 APR: Symptoms start
▪️27 APR: 1st test ➡️ NEGATIVE
▪️2 MAY: Repeat test ➡️ POSITIVE

https://t.co/RyZ7PafaxL

[Cat in the Hat 🐈‍⬛ 🎩 🇬🇧 @_CatintheHat]

This point is further reinforced by the statement issued yesterday from the International Hantavirus Society.

“A negative PCR result early after exposure should therefore NOT be interpreted as excluding later infection.”

Read full statement here:
https://t.co/DQQq7TN8CC

[Cat in the Hat 🐈‍⬛ 🎩 🇬🇧 @_CatintheHat]

4/ TESTING

The WHO confirmed that the hantavirus tests can only detect the viral RNA in a SYMPTOMATIC patient, from the first day of symptoms.

To clarify: this means someone infected will test NEGATIVE for the entire duration of the incubation period until onset of symptoms.

[Dar: Air on the side of caution @Dar52599441]

@davemccormickpa 9M Americans have ME/CFS and there are still no FDA-approved treatments. Please support our ME/CFS Appropriations asks for the FY27 budget. Dear Colleague letters are circulating from Sen. Markey's office now. #pwme

[Dar: Air on the side of caution @Dar52599441]

@senfettermanpa 9M Americans have ME/CFS and there are still no FDA-approved treatments. Please support our ME/CFS Appropriations asks for the FY27 budget. Dear Colleague letters are circulating from Sen. Markey's office now. #pwme

[Dar: Air on the side of caution @Dar52599441]

@SocraticaKim @PrettynPantsuit @michael_hoerger My clinic won't mask for me, & I'm concerned that prep & process could hurt my chronic illness baseline, so I was resigned to skipping it. So my primary ordered a mail-in screening. (Brands vary in false positive rate & in recommended frequency.) Best wishes

[PACO @PacoOnPause]

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.

[Dar: Air on the side of caution @Dar52599441]

@davemccormickpa ME/CFS patients like me need your help! Please sign @SenMarkey's Dear Colleague Letters to protect life-changing research at the CDC and DoD.

[Dar: Air on the side of caution @Dar52599441]

@senfettermanpa ME/CFS patients like me need your help! Please sign @SenMarkey's Dear Colleague Letters to protect life-changing research at the CDC and DoD.

[Arturo Portnoy @portna]

What do I win if I remove my mask? The approval of zombies? That has absolutely no value to me.

What do I lose? Health and lifespan.

Easy decision. 😷

[Dr. Sean Mullen @drseanmullen]

I wasn’t a “masker” before the pandemic. Most of us weren’t.
But then something clicked: self-schema theory — the one I studied in grad school — became real life.

See, I’ve always seen myself as a healthy person. Not just a tennis player, exerciser, or martial artist — those are identities but they’re more domain-specific life roles.
But health? That’s a higher-order identity that remains omnipresent across life roles.

When I learned what this virus does to the brain, heart, immunity — I didn’t need mandates. I needed to protect my identity.

So I masked.
And I haven’t trained in a gym or martial arts dojo in 5 years. I built my own space instead. Because I refuse to lose myself.

Meanwhile, many experts in my own field — behavior change, fitness, exercise and sport psych — dropped masks not because of data, but because their self-schema wasn’t about health.
It was about image.
Visibility.
Fitting in.

Drs Hazel Markus, Deborah Kendzierski, Diane Whaley… y’all were right.
Self-schema + possible selves = the keys to long-term health behavior change.

Now I live it.
I teach it.
And I see it clearer than ever:

We protect the identities we value most.

[nychealthy @nycHealthy]

COVID-19 cases are increasing and flu is still spreading in NYC.

Wearing a mask in crowded indoor settings this spring can protect you and others, even if you don’t have symptoms. Well-fitting masks, like N95s, KN95s, or KF94s offer the best protection: https://t.co/GSNg7r7fQF

[paulypandemic @we_are_ssd]

This is the only public email I could find for Tracy. Keep contacting her and CBER at the FDA because we are at risk of losing Novavax and others

Tracy Beth Høeg: [email protected]

Others to email:
Sara Brenner: [email protected]
Scott Steele: [email protected]

[Eric Feigl-Ding @DrEricDing]

5) Furthermore, Baloxavir works so well, it also PREVENTS flu infection too, according to a trial in Japan, among uninfected household contacts of someone else with the flu... reduced risk by 86% (i.e. 86% lower risk!)
https://t.co/J2EWwGDXba