BREAKING 🧵
A gut bacterium is showing up — or rather disappearing — across all three phases of COVID-19.
Severely ill patients have less of it.
Recovered patients get it back.
Long COVID patients don't.
Its name is Faecalibacterium prausnitzii. And what it does explains a lot. 👇
I guess I shouldn't be surprised that saying most kids have had COVID multiple times is "controversial" since according to this 2024 Ipsos poll, half of Americans believe they'll never get COVID again.
I'd imagine the % who don't want to learn more is even higher.
As someone without long covid i think it is so fucking unfair the bulk of awareness raising surrounding covid has fallen to people with long covid. They're already fucking sick and dying and they're trying to save your miserable selves at the same time. It's not right
@perchanceabit I have a Pluslife but it can't be imported into the US anymore... You can maybe still get it through a friend in Canada?
Metrix is another option for pcr instead of rapid, pcr is like 1000x more sensitive and better able to detect minor infection. Rapids are negative a lot.
⚠️TYLENOL & AUTISM—RFK Jr and Trump are wrong—the largest & best study in the world in 2.5 MILLION KIDS—found no increased autism risk with acetaminophen (aka paracetamol, Tylenol) use by the mother during pregnancy. A crude unadjusted analysis found only a preliminary 5% risk, but once you adjust for family by matching using sibling controls (who didn’t get autism), the even tiny 5% risk vaporizes to 0% 📉. (Fun fact: I used to do drug safety epidemiology and have been whistleblower against big pharma when their drugs were dangerous—so I know a few things about drug safety data). Thread 🧵.
PMC COVlD Dashboard, Sep 8, 2025 (U.S.)
🔥1 million new daily infections estimated from wastewater
🔥20 states + DC "High" or Very High"
🔥Up to 3,300 excess deaths expected from this week's infections
🔥Limited access to vaccinations
I wonder if one of the undercover nintendo reps came to riptide, forensically scanning for usbs, but then heard about the rave, showed up and just had fun and danced and did ket and just got lost in the friendship they wish they had on a regular basis, I wonder if that happened
BREAKING: COVlD surges across the U.S.
20 states & D.C. are in High or Very High transmission. Only 1 state is Very Low.
PMC estimates the U.S. will top 1 million new daily infections tomorrow.
Full report on Monday.
The spike in transmission in the Midwest is being driven by a surge in Warren, MI, a suburb of Detroit. Warn anyone you know in the area to #MaskUp and #RapidTest.
The regional estimate should average out within a few days.