Working in the hospital 🏥 during this #covid19 🦠surge has been painful. Breaks my heart seeing this hurt so many innocent souls like my patients. The world is blinding their eyes to this reality, but sadly it’s going to get to the point where they cannot.#LongCovid 😷#SARSCoV2
Mitochondria as being one of the root causes of longCovid?
➡️ A new study finds that SARS2 is able to block expression of both nuclear-encoded & mitochondrial-encoded mitochondrial genes, resulting in impaired host mitochondrial function. 1/
Syphilis cases in the USA have surged to the highest rates in more than 70 years.
This combined with lack of drug company interest in producing antibiotics is creating a health crisis. Roxanne Nelson reports. https://t.co/HnQa1rMJVl
Two very good, new #LongCovid reviews
—On the multi-system sequelae
https://t.co/e3S80sDb7K
—On mechanisms of brain/neurologic involvement and potential treatment approaches
https://t.co/e5TKzKaltW
@LancetRespirMed
US pregnancy related mortality rate (ie the chance that a woman will die due to pregnancy related causes):
1980s: 7/ 100,000
1990s: 10/ 100,000
2010s: 17/ 100,000
2020: 23/ 100,000
2021: 33/ 100,000
🤯😞
In our lives every day, be the kid in blue. Each of our journeys may look different, but each has value. Remember, how you act/react you WILL impact others journey - so respect it. Don’t diminish their journey. Don’t patronize it, value it. #BeRespectful https://t.co/OZMh0p3cBD
Longtime bioaerosol group Duchaine detected viable SARS-CoV-2 using a condensation sampler (SPOT) in hospital air. 41% of filter samples & 25% of SPOT samples positive by qRT-PCR, and airborne concentrations were 129-2056 gc/m3. https://t.co/TWAzAFP9RK
“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.“ https://t.co/WUaBqgpQEi
Why Did Scientists Wait So Long to Study the Snake Clitoris? An example of why #diversity & #representation in teams is critical. People subconsciously lean into what they can relate to explaining why “what we know” in science revolves around white males. https://t.co/PvdpOxMBnT
Beyond a month post-Covid, there's a significantly elevated risk of clots, including heart attacks and strokes that has been established by multiple studies, with reduced risk among those vaccinated
https://t.co/6iqDJ3oV1b
Even assuming the most extreme estimates of vaccine harm, Tylenol and ibuprofen harm far more people- and neither is estimated to save as many lives.
No drug is 100% “safe.” But Americans regularly take far less beneficial drugs with far more downside than covid vaccines.🤔
The World Health Organization has issued guidance on how to survive a nuclear catastrophe
Included in the guidance is a list of medicines that nations should stockpile for “radiological or nuclear emergencies” https://t.co/1fCdrybIwx
@traviscryan@SamLMontano@iaem@globalcmrpt@fema The other element is, extremely taxed systems, staff and stuff. There are fewer people, working with less to get things done… I believe this shortage is also forcing people/organizations to reach out to get help outside their bubbles too - because they have too.
The deaths from Covid in the first 2 years of the pandemic were nearly 3-fold reported—~15 million globally—by @WHO excess death calculations
https://t.co/YwZHD4ufC1
@Nature