Past-Chair of the Women’s Caucus at CASWE-ACFTS, PhD student, MSW, Long COVID research, therapist, equity advocate, intersectional feminist, mom. Tweets my own.
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There were a few of us wearing high quality masks including one of the lead organizers, @DrBronKing!
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"Where does a child spend most of their waking hours? In school [...]
And indoor air can be up to five times more polluted than outdoor air. It makes no sense for governments to be fixated on outdoor air as the problem..."
Barry Gardiner MP speaking at the UN 🧵
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More than 1 in 10 US healthcare workers report ongoing long-COVID symptoms
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Funny how every time there’s a COVID wave that people can’t acknowledge media shows up to punch down on others who can.
Then people who can’t process their anger & feelings of helpless about being lied to & discarded pile on to displace their grief & anxiety.
And repeat.
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Kathryn retweeted
“There’s an “aesthetic left,” if you will, defined by how it expects people to show up collectively in terms of community life and activism. This aesthetic left can be resistant to radical inclusivity and accommodations around disability.” 👏🔥
I suggested that ableism is profitable in my recent piece on @baltbeat framing Covid in the past tense open.substack.com/pub/justin…
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Taking a turn on the receiving end of incomprehensible language and information overload, I see.
Hospitals and general practices across the country are asking patients to “describe their experience in their own words” amid a rise in overly complex AI written complaints
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And we wonder why there is a crisis of trust in medicine and science. Medscape can’t even fact check.
The pandemic was NEVER “officially declared over”.
Only the funded response where we tried the taking care of each other and not normalizing social murder instead ended. 🙄
The COVID pandemic was officially declared over more than 3 years ago. Today, 6 years after the identification of SARS-CoV-2 — the virus that brought much of the world to a near standstill — fear of infection seems to have all but disappeared. Although various aspects of the pandemic continue to be debated, COVID has largely faded from public consciousness as a potentially severe illness.
On the one hand, this is because nearly all subvariants currently circulating are descendants of the comparatively less pathogenic Omicron variant, and acute cases are therefore generally milder than those seen at the start of the pandemic. On the other hand, repeated exposure to the antigen has led to a high level of baseline immunity in the population as a whole.
An assessment of the COVID situation in 2026 highlights two medical priorities: improving the treatment of COVID sequelae and evaluating the effectiveness of existing therapies for the prevention of long COVID and post-COVID syndrome (PCS). mdsc.pe/4AgNL7E
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Nailed it 🏆
There’s Nothing Wrong With Anyone, And The Things That Aren’t Wrong Weren’t Caused By That, And Even If They Were, They’re Good For You, And Your Fault, And Inevitable, And Anyway It’s Time To Move On.
ALT A serious man Headline: There’s Nothing Wrong With Anyone, And The Things That Aren’t Wrong Weren’t Caused By That, And Even If They Were, They’re Good For You, And Your Fault, And Inevitable, And Anyway It’s Time To Move On. Story by Morris Again and Basil Arsenal Photo from Adobe
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Articles like these are emblematic of the institutional amnesia surrounding Covid-19. A pathogen that emerged less than seven years ago, which can cause fatigue during the acute infection and as a common long-term effect, not even mentioned.
Conspicuously absent.
About 71.5% of adults in the U.S. say they experienced fatigue on multiple days over the past three months, according to a new report from the CDC. nbcnews.com/health/mental-he…
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👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼
Outdated’ health policies surrounding Covid still pose a danger today, says U of C researcher Dr Mark Ungrin.
We also hear from Dr David Keegan and Kerri Bowser and you’ll notice they all have masks on. Great modelling along with the messaging.
#MaskUp
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Kathryn retweeted
I’ve had the opportunity to collaborate with @Mark_Ungrin and have witnessed on many occasions his integrity & brilliance in calling out the systems that keep us less healthy, less informed, etc…because he knows things can be better for all of us.
Please heed what he says 🙏🏻.
“Unfortunately, when Covid hit, there was very little attention paid to aerosol transmission as a means of Covid infecting from one person to another,” Ungrin said. “Warnings were provided by scientists, engineers, occupational health and safety...(1/🧵)
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“Unfortunately, when Covid hit, there was very little attention paid to aerosol transmission as a means of Covid infecting from one person to another,” Ungrin said. “Warnings were provided by scientists, engineers, occupational health and safety...(1/🧵)
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RT @imMEurMEweallME: @MaskedHottiee I think this is also the central reason people get so upset about researchers not masking its like in t…
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“Air sampling at four US airports in 2023 and 2024 detected SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in over 98% of samples and influenza A in over 17%, according to a study published in PLOS Global Public Health.”
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