bns80

global citizen. mother. wife. teacher. advocate for health, women, girls. part-fish. loves discovery, travel, outdoors, photog, art/design + paying it forward.

[bns80 @bns1980]

teaching our children to care for others, the greater good. that is what makes this world a better place. 😷💗 credit: mom is drawing

[bns80 @bns1980]

@MarcusShepard US or international based airline? Safe travels! 😷

[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/

[bns80 @bns1980]

@WADeptHealth With alllll of the many studies showing that Long Covid is a major health threat to our world, I'd like to thank you for your TV ads on @KIRO7Seattle in the mornings that draw attention to LC. The more ppl can learn about it, the better! https://t.co/leVR0HJFOb

[tern @1goodtern]

https://t.co/dUdXvbrUnE

[Hannah Davis @ahandvanish]

Large study (av age 45) shows people with #LongCovid are 4.48x more likely to have a Major Adverse Cardiovascular Event (stroke, pulmonary embolism, heart failure) & 53% more likely to die.

True regardless of age, BMI, vaccination, variant. Risks last 3+ years from infection. 1/

[Ruth Ann Crystal, MD @CatchTheBaby]

MIT found Alzheimer's-like amyloid plaques in the brains of people who died of COVID. https://t.co/QbSJWJQhGW

Spike proteins were clustering with amyloid.

This was not in older adults with pre-existing disease.

It was caused by COVID.

[Dr. Sean Mullen @drseanmullen]

There are now more than half a million scientific publications related to COVID-19 and a rapidly growing body of evidence linking SARS-CoV-2 infection to immune dysregulation, microvascular injury, autonomic dysfunction, clotting abnormalities, viral persistence, and measurable cognitive changes.

And to the people constantly sick, exhausted, dizzy, forgetful, exercise intolerant, waking up to feeling like you got hit by a truck on the daily or suddenly developing strange inflammation, heart issues, GI problems, or “mystery” symptoms after repeated infections…

At some point you and society as a whole must confront the reality that repeated infection with a vascular and neurotropic virus was never as harmless as everyone wanted it to be.

I choose to live in reality.

That virus is still here. It is still spreading through the air. And it is still associated with long-term vascular, immune, and neurological consequences for many people.

Protecting yourself from that threat — through cleaner air, better ventilation, filtration, vaccination, and high-quality masks in high-risk settings — also reduces your risk from many of the other respiratory pathogens constantly circulating around us.

And if you are tired of watching people suffer while being told this is “normal,” then start demanding urgency.

Ask why Long Covid clinics are closing instead of expanding.
Ask why immunologists, virologists, neurologists, vascular scientists, and pathologists are not being funded at Manhattan Project scale to investigate viral persistence, immune dysfunction, clotting, mitochondrial damage, and cognitive impairment.
Ask why billions can appear overnight for almost anything else, but millions living with chronic illness are told to “pace themselves” and move on.

Support researchers (the ones who are still focused on Long Covid that don’t conflate the disease)
Support clean air initiatives (two strong efforts happening in Illinois right now! Help us!!).
Support disability advocacy.
Pressure institutions to improve indoor air quality.
Stop mocking people for protecting themselves.
And stop accepting “everyone is sick all the time now” as a normal feature of modern life.

[Jess @MeetJess]

6 years of living with the constant math:
Is this space safe?
Is this air clean?
Is this risk worth it?
6 years of watching caution get mocked,
science get diluted, preventable harm get normalized.
I’m not tired of caring.
I’m tired of being surrounded by people who don’t

[Dr. Sean Mullen @drseanmullen]

In 5–10 years, there will be two types of people:

Those who say:
“I had no idea this was happening.”

And those who say:
“I tried to tell people.”

Which one are you?

[bns80 @bns1980]

@KCPubHealth This is maddening and so sad to think of the people who were exposed at medical facilities. Masking in health care must be mandatory year round!

[chantzy @chantz_y]

How Covid is quietly rewiring the brain:

"That scale in turn raises a troubling question: whether Covid is not only leaving millions chronically unwell but also accelerating the slow neurological processes that end in dementia"

https://t.co/W2ADDoj2OU

[David Lingenfelter, PhD @dlingenfelter]

Children with in-utero COVID-19 exposure showed altered brain structures at birth and lower cognitive/social scores by age two, with 52% high-risk for developmental delays.

This study links these brain changes to anxiety-like behaviors.🧵

[bns80 @bns1980]

Study, after study, after study. What will you tell your children someday when they ask how you protected them? Clean the air & mask up! https://t.co/j4pKm5xJ5p

[bns80 @bns1980]

@VMFHealth @Seahawks @VMFHealth
Your name is on the NWHRN document and we have far exceeded the threshold you agreed to; this is so incredibly disheartening. 😢 https://t.co/u32zD9aiBJ Protect our community and your patients or don't sign the agreement. 😷

[bns80 @bns1980]

@AdamTsuris @VMFHealth Your name is on the NWHRN document and we have far exceeded the threshold you agreed to; this is so incredibly disheartening. https://t.co/u32zD9aiBJ Protect our community and your patients or don't sign the agreement. 😷

[bns80 @bns1980]

@waOSPI @WADeptHealth @GovBobFerguson @PattyMurray

US school-aged children diagnosed w/ long COVID had:

🚨 2.5x the risk of related chronic absenteeism

🚨2x the prevalence of memory impairment & difficulties with concentrating and learning

Time to clean the air!

[bns80 @bns1980]

None of this is new news and yet still nothing has been done. It’s time to wake up, it’s time to make changes to help protect our children. Their lives and their futures are at stake. Clean the air, mask up. @waOSPI @WADeptHealth @GovBobFerguson @PattyMurray

[CIDRAP @CIDRAP]

Research ties long #COVID in kids to chronic school absenteeism, learning problems

Long COVID was also linked to a higher prevalence of anxiety and depression.

https://t.co/7KkTlX4oIS

[bns80 @bns1980]

We are destroying an entire generation. 😢 Clean the air and mask up!

[CIDRAP @CIDRAP]

In utero #COVID exposure linked to brain changes, developmental delays, anxiety, and depression

At 2 years, 14% of toddlers in the prepandemic group were at high risk for developmental delays, compared with 51.6% in the COVID-19 group.

https://t.co/Y6iRL3mCDH

[tern @1goodtern]

We cursed a whole generation.

[JAMA @JAMA_current]

Recent research indicates higher rates of neurodevelopmental disorders among children exposed to #COVID19 during pregnancy. https://t.co/5beUZExA1Q