M. Oliver
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Joined June 2014
It’s that Neurologist talking sense again: “If you keep getting reinfected at your current rate, the virus will eventually put you in the category you thought only applied to ‘other people’. This is your inevitable trajectory.” #SARSCoV2KillsAndDisables
And COVID is making an ever increasing proportion of people fall into that weak/vulnerable category that capitalism is happy to throw to the wolves. Eventually, EVERYONE who is doing nothing to prevent repeat SARS-CoV-2 infections will be weak/vulnerable. This is what COVID does
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A study of 40,537 patients reveals that SARS-CoV-2 depletes key immune cells for up to 20 months. This persistent dysregulation is most severe in older men and those with cardiovascular disease. https://t.co/RcZSN0QKsd
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And how avoiding Covid infection becomes super extra important for a person with type 2 diabetes
Sponsored: "I would encourage anyone diagnosed with type 2 diabetes to talk to their doctors regularly because new science is coming out coming out at breakneck speed.”
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Now there's a big paper out about Covid causing immune dysregulation, maybe you'll understand the importance of the thread below.
I don't think enough people understand the significance of the difference *and* connection between *dysregulation* and *deficiency*.
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If public health won’t lead, the people can and should. Their health depends on it. -Dr. Lyne Filiatrault #bcpoli @CDCofBC Read more at: https://t.co/dqrGIwDoZ9
surreynowleader.com
H3N2 could make this a rough winter – be prepared
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Reminders, as public health officials warn of a very bad flu season: 🧵 * Washing hands is not a strategy for a respiratory virus. N95s, ventilation, air filtration -- especially in hospitals. * We should be cleaning indoor air with the same effort as for drinking water. 1/
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Finally finished my last COVID-related article! Some people get social pressure from peers asking why they are avoiding it, so this FAQ addresses the common issues. Going forward, I'll be writing about totally different stuff! https://t.co/5IgMOxk2gU
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Are mild cases worth worrying about?
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Excellent article, well worth a look. FAQ with citations supporting each claim. Handy resource for covid-cautious folks.
Finally finished my last COVID-related article! Some people get social pressure from peers asking why they are avoiding it, so this FAQ addresses the common issues. Going forward, I'll be writing about totally different stuff! https://t.co/5IgMOxk2gU
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@dlingenfelter This is everyone’s friendly reminder: We knew Covid causes immunodeficiency IMMEDIATELY. Then we decided to “wait for more data.” In the interim, we infected all the babies, kids, & the entire planet in exchange for record profits, which we continue to do to this day.
The New York Times published this article in June 2020, then we pretended it never happened. “The emerging picture indicates that the model for HIV treatment, a cocktail of antiviral drugs, may be a good bet for those with mild illness..." https://t.co/NzlAXlZM3I
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Still waiting for a single medical professional explain to me how handwashing protects you from an airborne pathogen. When even a 4th grader can see through the bullshit, you know we have a problem.
This is the worst IPC notice I have ever seen. Visitors are invited in to share the air during an airborne outbreak with "strict" hand hygiene, and absence of air-cleaning, isolation? testing? and masks with gaps. What is protecting the patients?
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"Building trust" starts with being honest
🚨 Nov 5, Dr Bonnie Henry, BC's PHO and Dr Reka Gustafson, Island Health's CMHO, were part of a panel. In her opening remarks Dr. Gustafson repeated BC Public Health's lies about children not transmitting Covid in schools and not getting seriously ill. 🤬 https://t.co/JYGhh6GrUs
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⚠️Important school study finding: Prolonged exposure in shared, poorly ventilated spaces, which potentially includes several infectious sources, drives respiratory virus transmission more than close contact. This really drives home to importance of clean indoor air. 1/
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I've had friends die from Long COVID. I know many people whose entire lives have been destroyed. Even thinking of designing a trial like this should result in the end of your career honestly. Insulting
Project Warp Speed had one clear objective, to save lives. After 6 years, it’s hard to draw any other conclusion than project LongCOVID has the opposite objective, which is to let people suffer and die. https://t.co/U9GVWpm3m3…
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Over 250 students and staff just dropped out sick at a single school in Wales. Full shutdown.
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If only there were somethings we could do to limit the spread of respiratory viruses!
'HSE Chief Executive Bernard Gloster has said this year's flu season has hit Irish hospitals hard and "we're nowhere near the peak". Speaking on RTÉ's This Week, Mr Gloster added that hospital emergency department attendance was at its "highest ever" last Monday' Highest ever.
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'HSE Chief Executive Bernard Gloster has said this year's flu season has hit Irish hospitals hard and "we're nowhere near the peak". Speaking on RTÉ's This Week, Mr Gloster added that hospital emergency department attendance was at its "highest ever" last Monday' Highest ever.
The Irish Medical Organisation has warned that the flu had hit Ireland "fast and hard" and will add enormous strain to the already stretched public hospital system https://t.co/RohjqwLbIa
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Whether the virus itself is oncogenic.. we don't yet know... The immune dysregulation and damage is not helpful for cancer surveillance which is in constant action in all of us. @seeksboston26mi thank you for sharing your journey and for @VirusesImmunity for her expert input🙏🏻
Akiko Iwasaki on the Butterfly Pavilion Podcast. "now there's some evidence that these events are linked, and what we need to do is to study what the link is to be able to prevent and treat these cancers that happen after the infection." @VirusesImmunity
https://t.co/ZGGDOXe5Kv
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In 2020 I published a paper arguing that there likely was an element of CD8 T cell death in Covid. For the following years, I was met with overall antipathy from many professors for claiming covid was harming T cells. Now, a new publication highlights persistent T cell
5/ closely as to ascertain whether the CD8+ Tn compartment is seen contracting with time. I would not want it to, as that would suggest T cell turnover, but I would want to see the effector populations constrict which is what they saw, I believe. These T cells can last a long
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Pettiness and smears tried to bury the truth. COVID’s T cell harm affects us all, from med students to professors. Persistent depletion and cumulative risks. Let’s focus on that, not the noise.
@BirdieBittern And then Dr AJ went and blocked half of Twitter in a snit one day 😕
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If you think societal collapse is an exaggeration, I suggest you read the impact of #LongCovid calculated by an economist. He had to calculate it twice *so far*, as the numbers continue to grow. https://t.co/9mVBnrOY9i
Don't normalize or look away young people leaving their jobs in the prime of their careers because of #LongCovid. This happens while our grants for infectious disease research continue to be cut or drastically reduced. This anti-science movement will lead to societal collapse.
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