Alain

[David Ullrich @DavidUllrich202]

Mysterious ‘cold blob’ in the Atlantic suggests the AMOC is weakening

A patch of ocean south-east of Greenland is the only place on Earth that is cooling, and it could be a sign that the warm water “conveyor belt” in the Atlantic is slowing down

https://t.co/iOP7S0fjUS

https://t.co/nKdwhlJCaW

[tern @1goodtern]

I had one of those really horrible conversations last week with someone who has had a string of new gut and bowel problems in the last year.

Every moment of the conversation a new alarm bell went off.

I came home and checked the charts.

[Danielle Beckman @DaniBeckman]

Let's rip the band-aid off

[C-A-G @C_A_G0101]

De quoi vous plaignez-vous ?
Ils ont scrupuleusement suivi les recommandations de lutte contre la dette immunitaire : "pour éviter d'être malade, il faut tomber malade le plus souvent possible" 🤷‍♂️
#santé_publique #mildscience

[Harry Spoelstra @HarrySpoelstra]

Persistent Cerebral 18-FDG PET Changes in Patients With Long COVID Presenting With Fatigue and Post Exertional Malaise

🚨We already knew Long COVID brain damage could last 6 months.
Now this new PET scan study proves it’s still there at 2 YEARS and counting.
Hypometabolism hits the left sensorimotor cortex (movement + body sense), left superior parietal (spatial awareness + attention), and bilateral visual cortex (raw sight processing).
This is NOT just “tired.”
This is a broken sensory-motor command center.
Is this the start of a lifelong neurological disease?

➡️Mayo Clinic observational cohort study of 40 Long COVID patients (70% female, median age 53) from a specialized clinic who underwent brain 18F-FDG PET-CT scans 17–149 weeks (median 62 weeks) after SarsCoV2 infection,

➡️73% had predominant fatigue with post-exertional malaise (PEM),

➡️This group showed statistically significant cerebral hypometabolism vs. non-PEM patients in the left sensorimotor cortex (p=0.0253), left superior parietal cortex (p=0.0276), and bilateral primary visual cortex (p=0.0096 and 0.0016),

➡️Abnormalities persisted already up to ~2 years post-infection,

➡️Scans used pons-normalized Z-scores against age/gender-matched controls with common comorbidities included psychiatric, GI, and cardiovascular conditions,

➡️Caveat: No references to vaccination status and/or reinfections,

➡️Authors propose 18F-FDG PET-CT as a potential diagnostic and therapeutic biomarker for the fatigue/PEM phenotype of Long COVID.

‼️So, AGAIN, Long COVID fatigue and PEM have a demonstrable, persistent neurological signature! Cerebral hypometabolism, still detectable on PET scans up to two years later and hits the left sensorimotor cortex (movement + body sense), left superior parietal cortex (spatial awareness + attention), and bilateral primary visual cortex (raw sight processing).

This isn’t just “tired.”

It’s a broken sensory-motor command center.

😡Study proves LC is biologically real, not psychosomatic or any other stupid FND diagnosis.

Without urgent validation of this biomarker and targeted therapies, patients will continue to be dismissed despite objective brain damage!
#AvoidSars2 #AvoidReinfections #BrainDamage
https://t.co/OfoOlgDyt0

[Vipin M. Vashishtha @vipintukur]

Could #LongCOVID be leaving behind early fingerprints of Parkinson’s disease?

➡️ In a 16-country study of >11,000 participants, people with LongCOVID showed significantly higher rates of multiple prodromal Parkinson’s-like features—including loss of smell, constipation, daytime sleepiness, dizziness, cognitive problems, urinary symptoms, depression, and dream-enactment behaviors. 1/

[Conor Browne @brownecfm]

I know I've said this many times before on this platform, but the moment I learned anosmia was a symptom of Covid-19 was the moment I decided I was going to do everything possible to avoid getting it. I knew anosmia was an early prodromal symptom of Parkinson's Disease.

[Chems Météo @ChemsMeteo]

Je vous avais dis que la Fournaise n’était jamais loin… Et bien elle revient, et se confirme 🔥🌡️

🔴 À partir de ce Week-end les Températures vont nettement augmenter pour dépasser les 30 °C sur pas mal de régions 📈

Ça pourrait empirer pour la Semaine du 15 Juin…

[andrew @teachrprecarity]

If I'm reading this correctly, in the past 16 months, 3 actors from Buffy the Vampire Slayer have died: 1. Diabetes complications, age 39, 2. Natural causes in sleep, age 54, 3. Pneumonia, age 72. I'm not a stats expert, but in a world w/ no Covid, is this all still happening?

[BirdieBittern @BirdieBittern]

If the rise in cases of Parkinson's disease is being driven by an aging population--

then why are we seeing so many young people being diagnosed?

November, 2022--

"The COVID-19 pandemic was raging" when Dr. Sara Whittingham, 46, was dx with Parkinson's
https://t.co/AoBBGcFv7V

[Extreme Temperatures Around The World @extremetemps]

‼️HISTORIC EVENT :+15c IN ANTARCTIC WINTER
Absolutely insane what we are witnessing:
15.4C/60F Esperanza 🇦🇷Minimum +6.0 !
HOTTEST WINTER DAY AND NIGHT IN ANTARCTICA HISTORY

MORE RECORDS SHATTERED
11.8 Marambio🇦🇷
9.3 Palmer🇺🇸
8.1 San Martin🇦🇷
7.8 Juan Carlos🇪🇸
4.6 Arturo Prat🇨🇱

[Outbreak Updates @outbreakupdates]

The most interesting thing in this report isn’t the 1,000th H5N1 case.

It’s that WHO quietly documented 10 human infections with novel influenza viruses in just five weeks:

• 3 H5N1
• 1 H5N6
• 5 H9N2
• 1 H1N2v

Across Asia and North America.

[Outbreak Updates @outbreakupdates]

The official count just reached 1,000 human H5N1 cases worldwide.

Nearly half died.

The more concerning detail:

Recent cases in Bangladesh, Cambodia, and India were identified days to weeks after patients entered care.

[Dr. Alice 💕 @calirunnerdoc]

In 2020, two months after my C-19 infection, I was admitted to the same hospital where I trained with a heart rate of 135 (sinus tach) and oxygen sat of 89 in bed.

My attending physician was a guy I’d been good friends with since intern year, who knew I was a healthy, endurance athlete.

He looked at the monitor and asked me if I thought my vitals were “real.” He then proceeded to document in the chart something along the lines of: “it may be anxiety but it may be something else.”

Really hoping insight has grown since then, and Simone gets prompt care for what’s causing her tachycardia. Because despite all I’ve seen in my career, and gone through as a patient, that was a snapshot in time that still haunts me.

And I’m still not well 6 years later.

[C-A-G @C_A_G0101]

Petit tweet de sarcasme cocasse.
Je vois des rassuristes se réjouir du "all time low level" atteint récemment pour SARS-CoV-2 dans les eaux usées...

C'est marrant, là on ne les entend pas s'inquiéter de la dette immunitaire qui est donc en train de s'accumuler !
#cohérence

[Danielle Beckman @DaniBeckman]

06.06.26 was my birthday! 666😁👹Welcome, new cycle! The past year took more from me than I ever imagined: my mother, my home, my certainty. I arrived in Germany last month carrying grief, loneliness...but also hope.
Strength isn't never breaking. Is continuing after you do so💪

[Outbreak Updates @outbreakupdates]

WHO’s latest update pushes the official global total to 1,000 human H5N1 cases.

47.9% fatal.

[tern @1goodtern]

Simone Biles lying in bed with a resting heart rate of 126.

Very curious to hear what they say is causing that.
😥

[Acyn @Acyn]

Trump has a meltdown and ends the interview

Welker: Just to be very clear, there's no evidence of what you're saying.

Trump: There’s a lot of evidence. There’s tremendous evidence. There’s nothing but evidence. The election was rigged. And it’s happening again in California. They’re cheating.

Welker: Do you have evidence?

Trump: All I have to do is look.

Welker: That’s not evidence. The local officials acknowledge they are slow

Trump: They’re crooked. Just like you’re crooked. You’re either crooked or stupid.

[covid is oncogenic @chaitrovert]

"kindness" MY ASS. this "covid is over" behavior by "experts" & flaunting your maskless gatherings on social media is why disabled people are called "mentally ill" for asking our own caregivers & friends to care about not killing us with these unnecessary risks