Why is International Long Covid Awareness Month Important? The WHO's Dr Maria Van Kerkhove explains on Long Covid The Answers #longcovid#longcovidawareness https://t.co/ApuwquNqxJ
The Ranch Fire in San Bernardino is 4,000 acres and growing.
Meanwhile, 5 of California’s 14 National Guard fire crews are understaffed… because Trump deployed them for a political stunt in LA.
This isn’t just illegal. It’s dangerous.
#long covid; #post covid syndrome; #post acute sequelae; Listen to my interview on the great “Ditch the Labcoat” with @DocBonta https://t.co/ETuqRvx4nA
Our new study shows that SARS-CoV-2 spike protein accumulates & persists in the body for years after infection, especially in the skull-meninges-brain axis, potentially driving long COVID. mRNA vaccines help but cannot stop it🔬🧠🦠🧵👇@cellhostmicrobe https://t.co/IEGx7HIrXf
@fitterhappierAJ@KashPrime It’s been one of my fears that COVID is causing increased rates of cancer. We need to see some directive research to see if this is the case.
@lilienfeld1 We need politicians made accountable for the lies they perpetuate. If this comes to pass we will be back in the dark ages with thousands of child deaths and disability. Any politician whose policies create this scenario should be prosecuted for it!
There's a common myth being passed around that longCOVID is rare, that it only affects medically infirm people, that it can't happen to me. Here's a short thread on the famous people (politicians, atheletes, entertainers) that are dealing with #longCOVID
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Since my episode with the wonderful @longcovidanswer has been released highlighting viral persistence as a major driver of some #LongCOVID pathology, I’ve been asked repeatedly, “what should we do about it?” - totally fair question. Here is my proposed roadmap: 1/
time to make up for, and I want to assure everyone that my team is working around the clock to get answers out to the community and therapies approved. I hope this thread has helped to point at directions and research that may be helpful 🙏🏻 /end
@PutrinoLab Thanks David. Great response! As I said in our last interview I love the way your team is trying to approach your research with precision so that we know why Long Hauler’s respond to drug therapies.
Remember, the UK has a terrible record for real conspiracies that turned into reality and where no lessons were learnt and the perpetrators got off completely free!
- Tainted blood plasma
- Thalidomide
- Aberfan
- PPE VIP lane
- Partygate
- Ground rent
- Cladding
- Dodgy concrete for schools & hospitals
- Hillsborough
- Horizon Post Office - still ongoing
- Grenfell
- Bloody Sunday
- Orgreave
- Dieselgate
- Internal Drainage Boards
- Harold Shipman
- Equitable Life
- Payment Protection Insurance
- Cash for honours - still ongoing
- MP expenses - still ongoing
- Brexit - Russian interference
- Women Pensions
- Chagos Islanders - finally resolved
- Freeports/SEZ
- Carillion
- Iraq WMD
- Windrush - still ongoing
- Gurkhas pensions
- Monarchy law changes
- Carers allowance overpayments
- Money laundering in City of London
- British protectorate offshore tax havens
- Phone hacking - still ongoing
- Austerity deaths
- Covid pandemic deaths - still ongoing
- Covid blood scandal happening now
- Mineworkers pension theft
- Huge covid child deaths
- Long Covid
- Massive tax evasion by the wealthy
- Asbestos in homes etc
- Multiple care home scandals
- Grooming gangs
- Greedflation by utilities
- Sewage pollution by Water Companies
- Bank of England bank interest payments
- Covid loans
- Covid Eat out to help out
- Covid self employed
- Covid furlough fraud
- Physician Associates - ongoing
- Alder Hey organ scandal
- Bristol heart scandal
- Countess of Chester neonatal deaths
- Gosport opioids death scandal
- Furness hospital deaths
- East Kent hospital neonatal deaths
- Derek McKinn body parts scandal
- Stafford hospital high mortality
- MMR autism fraud
- Single Justice Procedure used by rail firms
- Sarah Everard Met Police
- Child Q Met Police
- Blair Peach Met Police
- Dalian Atkinson
- Stephen Lawrence
- Thurrock Council bankruptcy
- Woking Council bankruptcy
- Nuclear test veterans
So, I am redoing my annual BSL-3 facility training, and this is how we have to dress to work with #SARSCoV2 in the Lab. I am investigating the same strain that is circulating everywhere, Omicron variants KP.2 and KP.3. What do you think? 🙇
#biohazardous#BSL3#Covid
If I could choose just four studies out of the over 500 I’ve reviewed to convince you to take precautions from SARS-CoV-2, the following would be on my list:
1. The Lancet just published a compelling study of >16 million people demonstrating the risk of type 2 diabetes after COVID-19 was significantly higher in unvaccinated individuals compared to vaccinated ones. Hospitalized COVID-19 patients faced a dramatically higher risk of developing diabetes, which declined over time but remained elevated. Most importantly, 60% of those diagnosed with type 2 diabetes after COVID-19 continued to have the condition 4 months later (https://t.co/U08gHQoyuJ).
2. A study in The New England Journal of Medicine from February (2024) shows alarming accelerated cognitive decline in all individuals infected with SARS-CoV-2, even after a recovery period (https://t.co/B6gjgSRA8Y).
3. A preprint on macaque monkeys reveals that even mild and asymptomatic cases of COVID-19 can lead to the formation of Lewy bodies post-infection (https://t.co/01pUt1J8Wx). Moreover, a peer-reviewed study on rhesus monkeys showed an equally disturbing increased presence of tau proteins, in all monkeys (https://t.co/K2u4gjIuCJ).
4. The 2007 SARS1 mouse study, which is crucial for understanding the potential severity of coronavirus infections. No mouse survived beyond the 16th serial passage, a phenomenon we refer to as the "rule of 15" or the “passthrough rule.” This shows evidence of the evolutionary process and the dangers of allowing it to spread unabated (https://t.co/H0SC7a5Yqi).
Given the compelling evidence from these studies alone (with intentional omission of the immune dysfunction, elevated cardiac/stroke risk and gut problems), it should be clear as day, that this virus is NOT by any means “mild.” It can do lasting damage on the metabolic system and central nervous system which impairs everyday physical and cognitive functioning. It can cause performance errors and incapacity to work. It’s dangerous and threatens our way of life.
The public has been lied to and cleaning indoor air, masking indoors and vaccinating against SARS-CoV-2 are essential public health measures.
Note that I’ve left out studies showing increased risk rising with repeated infection, and I’ve omitted studies showing the efficacy of precautions… because people don’t take precautions unless they agree that infection poses a serious concern. And until now, we are fighting survival bias and people who think “brain fog” is some kind of rite of passage to immunity.
People don’t understand brain fog from SARS2 is brain damage. People also don’t understand that not being hospitalized isn’t some kind of gold star participation award that keeps you free of lifelong effects from pathogens that can persist in your blood, bone and organs. Until they understand what they’re doing to their bodies and brains, they’ll take zero action. Explain it to them, before it’s too late.
Since the beginning, it's been obvious that Gaza was in many ways a fight between International Law and the US's "rules-based order".
https://t.co/HWvdrSTlAe
This whole episode around the UN resolution is a perfect illustration of this. There is no debate amongst international law scholars that resolutions by the UN Security Council that "demand" certain actions are binding (good explanation by a legal scholar here: https://t.co/XO9NPthNkJ). In fact resolutions by the council ARE international law, article 25 of the UN Charter clearly states: "The Members of the United Nations agree to accept and carry out the decisions of the Security Council in accordance with the present Charter."
Yet the US now argues that the "rule" is in fact different: "It's a non-binding resolution, so there's no impact at all on Israel".
Where is this rule written, that somehow when the UNSC "demands an immediate ceasefire for the month of Ramadan respected by all parties leading to a lasting sustainable ceasefire", it's non-binding and "there's no impact at all" on the warring party? Nowhere, that's the beauty of the rules-based order: the rules are made-up in the moment to fit the interests of the U.S. and its henchmen, depending on the circumstances.
Had the very same resolution, with the exact same language, been adopted for a conflict that the U.S. actually wanted stopped, there's no doubt they'd have argued the exact opposite: that it was binding and the hostilities had to cease immediately. Which goes to show that sometimes the Rules-Based Order does align with international law, when it's in the US's interests to do so.
In that sense, Israel's genocide in Gaza is a great revealer because everything about it goes against international law: the mass killing of civilians, journalists, and humanitarian workers; the pre-existing occupation of Palestinian land; the wholesale destruction of Gaza: the hospitals, the mosques, the schools; the torture of prisoners; the deliberate starvation of the population, etc. So never before have we been able to see in such an obvious way the immense contrast between the rules-based order and international law.
And there's no going back, the curtain was pulled: if they hadn't noticed before, the world now knows for sure that the US (and Israel of course) is quite literally a rogue state, operating outside international laws and norms, and outside the most fundamental moral principles.
There's no overstating how consequential this is for the integrity of international relations. By doing so, the US effectively destroys the world order it largely created after WW2 because it effectively tells everyone that the set of institutions, rules and norms that underpin it are meaningless. We're effectively now in a world system where everyone realizes the police, the government, the basic set of beliefs, have become completely corrupted. This changes everything.
What comes next? I think there's no coming back for the U.S. And I think they know this, maybe unconsciously, otherwise they would at least pretend to act for the better good of all. The fact they don't shows they've effectively abdicated ambitions to restore their hegemony: they're now nakedly in it to milk the system for themselves, universal pretentions have gone.
Most countries however don't want to live in an "eat or get eaten"/"might makes right" world, without rules or norms. So in time a new system will arise. The biggest unknowns being: can it arise without a major global war, who will lead the construction of its foundations and how can it be set up so that this time around it is fair for all and respected by all?