William E Ott

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[SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @COVID19_disease]

🚨 BREAKING:

Waterloo scientists Dr. Brian Ingalls, Dr. Sara Sadr, and Dr. Marc Aucoin have engineered “tumor-eating” bacteria that can invade and destroy cancer from within.

🧬 A potential breakthrough in cancer treatment research.

[Terry Moran 🇺🇸 @TerryMoran]

We’re all supposed to pretend this isn’t happening a lot?

How does this make us look to the rest of the world?

[Dr. Sean Mullen @drseanmullen]

Every hero eventually disappoints someone.

Not because they’re evil.
Not because they’re stupid.

Because changing your mind has a cost.

To acknowledge that COVID still poses serious long-term risks would require many people to revisit years of assumptions, decisions, public statements, and personal behavior.

That’s not just updating a belief.

That’s rewriting part of your identity.

And for most people, denial is cheaper than reconstruction.

@DrInfoSec

[Dr. Sean Mullen @drseanmullen]

My friends, help me document every single time airborne language has been removed or revised to downplay the role of airborne transmission of disease.

It’s time to take public health policy decisions away from these corrupt assholes.

[TaraBull @TaraBull]

CNN’s Clarissa Ward reports U.S. passport holders heading to Europe face long delays from the new EU Entry/Exit System.

[Eric Feigl-Ding @DrEricDing]

I don’t think we have a functioning CDC anymore—RFK Jr’s CDC is now asking volunteers to goto airports to screen passengers for Ebola… to stand in line at airports to look for sick people… unpaid.

[Esta @TheOnlyEsta]

This NEVER gets old‼️🤣

Please LIKE and RETWEET

[Michelle Maxwell ™ @MichelleMaxwell]

With everything we are hearing right now about ticks this seems like good information to share.

“Here’s what I’ve learned after more ticks than I care to count.
First, whatever your uncle told you, forget it. No matches. No nail polish. No Vaseline. No soap on a cotton ball. All of those do the same terrible thing, they stress the tick out, and a stressed tick empties its gut back into the bite before letting go. Which, if you think about what that actually means for a second, is literally how Lyme and the rest get transmitted so you’re not speeding up its exit. You’re making it throw up into you.
Fine-tipped tweezers. Grip right where the mouthparts enter the skin, not the body, the head. Pull straight up, steady, no twisting, no jerking. It’ll feel like it’s resisting because it is, the mouthparts are barbed. Just keep the pressure on and it lets go in a few seconds. If a piece breaks off in the skin, leave it alone. Your body pushes splinters out. Digging around with a needle does more damage then the fragment ever would.
Clean it with alcohol or soap. Wash your hands.
Now here’s the part most people skip: don’t flush the tick.
Tape it to an index card. Clear packing tape right over the body, write the date and where on your body it was, and stick the card in a drawer. If you come down with anything weird in the next 30 days, rash, fever, joint pain, that flu-that-isn’t-flu feeling, that tick goes with you to the doctor. Some labs will test the tick itself, which is faster and often more reliable than waiting for antibodies to show up in your own blood. A dated tick taped to a card is one of the most useful things you can hand a doctor who’s trying to figure out what’s wrong with you.
The other thing worth saying out loud: if the tick was engorged when you pulled it, and you can’t swear it was off your body within 24 hours, call your doctor that same day. Don’t wait for a rash. Fewer than three out of four Lyme cases even produce the classic bullseye. A single preventive dose of doxycycline within 72 hours of a deer tick bite cuts the Lyme odds way down, and most docs in tick country will write that prescription without giving you a hard time, especially if you walk in with the tick taped to a card and a clear timeline.”

[Dr. Sean Mullen @drseanmullen]

Please put aerosol scientists and engineers back in charge of public health.

We built infectious disease policy around outdated droplet assumptions while ignoring aerosol physics, ventilation, and indoor air quality.

If your infectious disease training still treats airborne transmission like a rare exception instead of a central mechanism, your curriculum is obsolete.

Public health accreditation bodies should immediately reevaluate training standards for airborne disease prevention, ventilation, filtration, respirators, and aerosol science.

Droplet dogma has already cost enough lives.

[Jerome Adams @JeromeAdamsMD]

Reminder: Long COVID's disability & suffering will be the pandemic's most devastating long-term global legacy. Neither GBD supporters nor critics anticipated its scale or included it in their policy calculus -and “let er rip” strategies prioritizing widespread exposure clearly worsen the toll. Millions affected, with real costs in lives and productivity (on top of 20 million direct deaths globally, which we should never forget or minimize). https://t.co/I48h2XxxfS

[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.

[Radha Tripathi @Radha_AI]

A man spends 50 years teaching at MIT.

He knows his time is running out.

So he records one last lecture — everything he knows, distilled into a single hour.

He died 5 months later.

This is that lecture.

The most important hour you'll watch this week. 👇
Bookmark it for later

[Tyler. 1st wave 🦠 survivor. 🚩🏴🍞 @Earth___Crisis]

@drseanmullen

[🎒Joanna Teglund✊😷🍉Human life is sacred @JoannaTeglund]

@OttoKolbl @amiandlife https://t.co/NinEuAlJwQ

[Otto Kolbl @OttoKolbl]

If we reach the point where research is done on the model of law firms, we failed and humanity is heading towards dark times. We need research and higher education as public services. If it gets privatized, the billionaires will determine what "science" says. We are there already, to a certain extent, with think tanks, private universities, etc. But public service is still strong. For how long?

[Otto Kolbl @OttoKolbl]

@qbi @amiandlife Here, relevant info on p. 13:
https://t.co/2gEzgyNDxO

[Otto Kolbl @OttoKolbl]

For example, masks. Consistent research shows that 3-layered cloth masks can be virtually as efficient for self-protection as FFP2 masks. They are easy to produce. In China, they have used them for decades, including during SARS, and high-quality case-control studies show that they work. All this information and more was suddenly "forgotten" when COVID started. Our investigation: 1/
https://t.co/GsXPYyvXAK

[Otto Kolbl @OttoKolbl]

We are collecting sources about the reactions in academia, media and civil society regarding early warners and those who were prevented from warning. Can we quote you on this in our articles? Could we get more details? Can be in PM. By the way, @CK65375 and I really appreciate your work. Your article from October 2025 about GET is referenced in our article about the inadequate treatment of long SARS and its consequences for long COVID.
https://t.co/bSvgCPckOG
Your tweet from April 2020 warning about long COVID is referenced in an upcoming article about the cruel treatment of people with long COVID.

[Dr. Sean Mullen @drseanmullen]

Sounds familiar.
Warnings were silenced…everywhere.

The facts remain.
The virus remains.
The bias remains.

So does the disdain for the people who got it right.

[Otto Kolbl @OttoKolbl]

Why did nobody warn you? I can tell you. Late March 2020, I was part of the COVID taskforce of the German Interior Ministry. In our first report from 27 March, we were probably the first in Western countries to warn about long-term sequelae from COVID, based on experience with SARS (2003) and data about COVID from China. We also argued against herd immunity strategy. A few days later, the German government abandoned herd immunity. But we, and I personally, were violently attacked by influential German right-wing media, followed by major mainstream media, including moderate left-wing. A massive defamatory media campaign. My university threatened to fire me (they actually did a few months ago). That's how mainstream media and the academic community silenced those who knew and warned.