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[Sharon Thornton @_SharonThornton]

Covid19 infections are damaging brains and causing some to have difficulty controlling their antisocial behaviours.

(How to stop this is difficult, other than by making a concerted effort to prevent new infections, and by hoping that brains recover).

https://t.co/9twtOKSqaZ

[The BMJ @bmj_latest]

@amateursuman performed his 'Anaesthetist's Hymn' at The BMJ Medics' Revue 2026.

Watch below! (symptoms of chronic laughter may follow)

[Sharon Thornton @_SharonThornton]

@APA Summer camp.
A dumping ground for kids whose parents are too busy to holiday with them, or who don't want to be with their own kids.
Supported by old-school psychiatry, who no doubt want the chance to manipulate children for their own ends unsupervised by parents.

[Laura Miers @LauraMiers]

Reinfections DRAMATICALLY increase risks. A popular misconception is folks believing they’re still getting Covid, but they’re magically protected from organ damage. The risks increase with each infection & the damage is cumulative. Your eyes are organs. https://t.co/bbejwGlP1K

[Sharon Thornton @_SharonThornton]

Routine tests may miss damage done even by "mild" Covid19 infections in children.

Children benefit from Covid19 vaccination, with fewer gastrointestinal issues post-infection.

@RCHMelbourne @Mark_Butler_MP

[Harry Spoelstra @HarrySpoelstra]

Pediatric Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Taiwan: Insights from the DISCOVER Cohort

🚨We’ve called for caution and we’ll do it again!! #OurChildren #Omicron

Even MILD paediatric COVID isn’t harmless.

➡️INTERESTING new Taiwan DISCOVER cohort (n≈500 kids, mean age7.6ys, post-2022 Omicron):

1. High burden of persistent multisystem symptoms:
- Even though acute COVID-19 was predominantly mild, a substantial proportion of children developed post-acute sequelae of SARSCoV2 (PASC/long COVID) lasting >4 weeks,
- The most common symptoms were fatigue, cough, chest pain, and other somatic complaints,
- Neuropsychiatric issues (sleep disturbances, brain fog, anxiety/depression) affected 5–15% of cases, particularly adolescents, and correlated with reduced quality of life,

2. Subclinical organ dysfunction frequently missed by routine tests:
- Impulse oscillometry detected abnormalities in 74.6% of assessed children (mainly small-airway dysfunction in 62.9%), strongly linked to respiratory symptoms,
- ‼️Conventional spirometry was often normal,
- ‼️AI-enhanced echocardiography (ResNet-50 model, 96.6% accuracy) unmasked subtle cardiac changes not visible on standard echo,

3. Immune-driven mechanism:
- Symptom severity tracked with elevated anti-nucleocapsid IgG titers and a low-grade “cytokine simmer” (elevated IL-2, IL-21, MIP-1α) plus T-cell exhaustion markers (PD-1/PD-L1 correlation),
- No evidence for viral persistence,

4. Vaccination modifies disease course:
- ‼️Fully vaccinated children had significantly lower odds of gastrointestinal sequelae (abdominal pain AOR 0.49; diarrhoea AOR 0.37) and better-preserved pulmonary function (improved impulse-oscillometry parameters),

5. Vitamin D supplementation may show early promise:
- A small single-center RCT (n=33) found 2,000 IU/day for 6 months significantly reduced overall symptom burden (CSSI-24 score), lowered pro-inflammatory cytokines, and favourably altered immune checkpoints and the microbiome, especially in children with vitamin D deficiency plus VDR risk genotypes,

6. Additional risks identified:
-Older age and greater acute-infection severity predicted worse PASC,
- ‼️The cohort also showed an elevated hazard of new-onset allergic diseases (asthma, rhinitis, dermatitis) post-infection.

‼️So, AGAIN, even mild pediatric SARS-CoV-2 infections can trigger long-lasting multisystem damage and impaired quality of life. Persistent symptoms in children must never be dismissed as “just recovery/getting over it” but need prompt specialist evaluation and intervention!
Dammm it….protect our children and don’t relax after at first sight “normal” tests!
#CleanAir #AvoidSars2 #AvoidReinfections
https://t.co/pqKmZr3yc5

[Sharon Thornton @_SharonThornton]

We have to keep exposing and trying to shut down those who lie to us about health matters.

They cannot be allowed to roam freely and do endless harm to others for their own financial gain.

[Sharon Thornton @_SharonThornton]

@hannahspierMD the personal opinions of psychiatrists and their unscientific education on this an other topics probably matter little, because it's all just mainly personal opinion.

[Sharon Thornton @_SharonThornton]

@hannahspierMD Given that psychiatry's DSM guidebook is largely made up of concocted disease names that were created in conjunction with pharmaceutical manufacturers to sell copious supplies of certain medications that required repeated paid, often expensive consultations with a psychiatrist,

[Sharon Thornton @_SharonThornton]

@hannahspierMD Perhaps psychobabblers are sometimes a bit biased towards blaming the physical brain when they are trying to defend criminal activity.

"Oh, he couldn't help what he chose to do. His brain structure tells me so" type of thinking.

[Sharon Thornton @_SharonThornton]

@hannahspierMD to you or her other parent for a little bit of kindness or support when something doesn't sit right with her.

Is there any chance you have Covid19 brain damage yourself? Have you been running around unmasked for much of the past 7 years, inhaling harmful virus repeatedly?

[Sharon Thornton @_SharonThornton]

@hannahspierMD What you have taught your daughter here is that you don't understand what might make somebody else feel uncomfortable.
You dismissed your daughter's feeling as her just being attention-seeking, and weren't prepared to offer her appropriate comfort.
She now knows she cannot turn

[Sharon Thornton @_SharonThornton]

@hannahspierMD It seems you put forward extraordinary effort to deny reality as you seek to bully people.

You are a nasty psychiatrist with little understanding of basic biological processes and medical conditions that are well documented in the literature that you seem to be uninformed about.

[Sharon Thornton @_SharonThornton]

@hannahspierMD Perhaps you lack the cognitive skills to accept biological reality.

[Sharon Thornton @_SharonThornton]

Australia's health services need similar legislation to reduce the harm done by health practitioners who spread harmful misinformation.

@Mark_Butler_MP

[Shaun Lintern @ShaunLintern]

The Public Office (Accountability) Bill will create new laws that potentially significantly impact NHS managers and those who have for years covered up, lied and avoided accountability in past scandals:

[Sharon Thornton @_SharonThornton]

. @JamesTitcombe

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

One in four births in England is now emergency caesarean, BBC analysis shows https://t.co/sJuOXTg8aX

[Sharon Thornton @_SharonThornton]

@Smemu4 What is your real name?

[Sharon Thornton @_SharonThornton]

@Smemu4 Your assessment of me is quite wrong.

[Sharon Thornton @_SharonThornton]

@Smemu4 I'm not pushing anybody anywhere.
You aren't making much sense, sorry.
I have no control over who classifies as an MD.

[Sharon Thornton @_SharonThornton]

@hannahspierMD If you are trying to get fame by posting offensive comments about the sick, who are you trying to impress?

Are you wanting a following of awful, unkind people who don't understand science?

[Sharon Thornton @_SharonThornton]

@hannahspierMD heart failure, paralysis, or any number of other internal diseases can also wish their way out of their physical, biological illness?

Why would people live in sickness and poverty if they could return to the jobs they once loved?

Your personal view lacks logic.