Extant Nomad

Paranoid lunatic

[Extant Nomad @Extant_Nomad]

Hi! I've created this page as a repository for co2 traces from places I've visited in Perth Western Australia. High levels of co2 (>800ppm) suggest that you're breathing air exhaled by other people. #COVIDisAirborne

[Vipin M. Vashishtha @vipintukur]

The eyes may reveal what #LongCOVID is doing to children.

➡️ Researchers found that children with Post-COVID Syndrome had significantly wider retinal blood vessels months after infection—a sign of persistent microvascular/endothelial dysfunction.

➡️ Using a simple, non-invasive retinal scan, scientists could actually see biological changes linked to LongCOVID. Some vascular abnormalities improved over time, especially as symptoms improved. 1/

H/T: @CatchTheBaby

[Denis - The COVID info guy - @BigBadDenis]

By Guty Schnauzer:

"This work provides experimental evidence that the Omicron BA.2.86 and JN.1 variants have developed a greater capacity to infect human proximal small intestine cells, something that distinguishes them from other recent XBB-derived variants."

[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/

[Denis - The COVID info guy - @BigBadDenis]

🧵"What we know (and don't) about Covid-19's effect on the immune system."

1. Lasting impact
2. This looks like...
3. 5-20%

Source: https://t.co/2Y48VsLvWR

[Conor Browne @brownecfm]

1. Remember that any attempt to paint Long Covid as psychogenic in nature deliberately and completely incorrectly biologically decouples SARS-CoV-2 infection from Long Covid. In essence, this rhetoric shifts the causative factor for LC from the virus to the patient's mind.

[Denis - The COVID info guy - @BigBadDenis]

Western Australia weekly COVID update: Week ending 31 May 2026

🔸COVID positivity rate: 3.1% est. (+0.5%)

🔹Reported cases: 114 (-8.8%)
🔹Hospitalisation: 48 per day (-17.2%)
🔹ICU: 7-day average was 0

🔸Influenza: 72 (-6.4%)
🔸RSV: 203 (+18.7%)

Source:https://t.co/Sbpb2Kg4pg

[Conor Browne @brownecfm]

Remember that the existence of Long Covid and the fact that millions of people worldwide are suffering from it creates an extraordinary dissonance in the minds of a section of the population who wish to believe the falsity that Covid is no longer dangerous, and perhaps never was.

[Raina MacIntyre @Globalbiosec]

Just reviewed these #Ebola and #Marburg #PPE guidelines, dated 2026. It's shocking for those of us who advocated for better Ebola PPE in 2014. It uses the 1m rule and states "Paradoxically, wearing excessive PPE can increase a person’s risk of infection." Where is the evidence? 1/4 https://t.co/ZpljXiTsfe

[Linn Järte @LinnJarte]

The societal response to covid and moral injury - some thoughts 🧵

Non-cc people are often of the belief that my greatest moral injury related to covid is the injustice of letting vulnerable people “fall by the wayside”.
1/6

[Denis - The COVID info guy - @BigBadDenis]

Western Australia weekly COVID update: Week ending 24 May 2026

🔸COVID positivity rate: 2.6% est. (-0.2%)

🔹Reported cases: 125 (-11.3%)
🔹Hospitalisation: 58 per day (-4.9%)
🔹ICU: 7-day average was 0

Source: https://t.co/Sbpb2Kg4pg

[Jonathan's translucent form @jmcrookston]

I mean we know Ebola is airborne for monkeys but not humans?

What a lark.

[Barry Hunt @BarryHunt008]

"Opinion | Why are we repeating the same mistakes
with hantavirus that we made with COVID-19?"

Great article by @FurnessColin
👏👏👏

https://t.co/3w7RSkxYAR

[Michael Olesen 💉😷🇺🇸🇺🇦 @maolesen]

This illustrates why I'm far more concerned about Ebola than Hantavirus. In addition, this particular strain (Bundibugyo) has a high false negative rate with testing. Don't forget the super spreader event coming up either.

[Conor Browne @brownecfm]

In my opinion, the dismantling of USAID by the current US administration is a large part of why the current Ebola outbreak was not detected earlier. There are likely people dead and dying right now who would otherwise not have been. Politics is the greatest biological risk.

[Dr Rhonda Garad Difficult by Design @RhondaGarad]

Govt finally fessing up to fuel rationing.
https://t.co/9tJSUjnw7X

[Denis - The COVID info guy - @BigBadDenis]

🇦🇺Australian Respiratory Surveillance Report – 22 May 2026

Reported cases in the last fortnight (4 May 2026 to 17 May 2026)

🔸COVID: 3,736 (+8.6%)
🔸Influenza: 1,642 (+0.9%)
🔸RSV: 6,300 (+17.0%)

Source: https://t.co/6eUDzdAURO

[Danielle Beckman @DaniBeckman]

Relevant data. Over 700 cases analyzed, myocarditis incidence surged during the start of the pandemic and remained high. Vaccine-associated myocarditis not likely a contributor. Can we really say we are living a post-pandemic era? #COVID #LongCovid

[Denis - The COVID info guy - @BigBadDenis]

🇦🇺AUSTRALIA Weekly COVID Update: 22 May 2026

🔹WA: ⬆️(+25.8%) Avg 61/day in hospital
🔹NSW: ⬆️(+20.4%)
🔹SA: ⬆️(+16.3%)

🔹QLD: ⬇️(-4.7%) 36 in hospital

🔸VIC: Next update: 29 May
🔸TAS: Next update: 29 May

🔹Aged Care: The Australian government ended weekly reporting

[Nancy Malek MBBS FANZCA @N95Anaesthetist]

Ebola is airborne. Secretions aerosolise.
Droplet dogma in medicine is harming and killing people.

[Denis - The COVID info guy - @BigBadDenis]

🧵(1/3) NSW respiratory surveillance reports: 21 May 2026

Week ending 16 May 2026:

🔸COVID positivity rate: 4.1% (+0.1%)

🔸Number of laboratories reporting COVID: 3 out of 4

🔹COVID: 1,092 (+20.4%)
🔹Influenza: 435 (+28.7%)
🔹RSV: 1,815 (+15.0%)

https://t.co/1apogQpqtQ