Jason Gale

The book "After Covid: The Health Impacts That Will Last Generations" by Jason Gale on a light green background.

"After Covid" is a deeply researched account of a crisis that has fundamentally changed the world, and continues to reshape it in ways we're only beginning to understand.

https://tr.ee/WqkUKP

It sounds really frightening. I’m intrigued how people experiencing this managed to survive

What We Forget About Covid Will Shape the Next Pandemic As the pandemic recedes, our collective memory is softening the fear and chaos. That shift could determine how we handle the next crisis.

From @jasongale.bsky.social based on his brilliant new book. Captures a lot of what actually was, and contrasts that to our (faulty/revised) memory those facts. And importantly, why that all matters for the next pandemic. All a bit sad to me, but great work Jason.

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What We Forget About Covid Will Shape the Next Pandemic As the pandemic recedes, our collective memory is softening the fear and chaos. That shift could determine how we handle the next crisis.

Refrigerated trucks. Mass graves. ICUs beyond capacity.

Six years on, some call it exaggerated — even as transmission, #LongCovid and system strain persist.

What we forget about #Covid will shape the next pandemic.

My latest for Bloomberg's Weekend Edition via 🎁🔗⬇️
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After Covid The Health Impacts That Will Last Generations

It’s fitting to launch during International Long Covid Awareness Month.

Available now from Johns Hopkins University Press (30% off with code HTWN):
www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

#LongCovidHeartbeats #PublicHealth

After Covid is officially published.
It took 3+ years of reporting—hundreds of interviews & deep dives into more than 2,000 studies & reports—to examine what followed the emergence of SARSCoV2. #LongCovid. Chronic illness. Strained systems. Eroded trust. The risks we face if we don’t learn from it.

How Covid Quietly Rewires the Brain Researchers keep discovering more about the long-term neurological effects of SARS-CoV-2.

Do you have #LongCovid and feel like you have to consciously control your breathing?

An NIH researcher studying this wants to connect with patients.

Free link to my story: tinyurl.com/a8e8v4xv

Email me confidentially: j.gale@bloomberg.net

Brain Tumor Survivors Are Forcing a Rethink of Cancer Care By studying patients who outlive their prognosis, scientists are learning how glioblastoma spreads, adapts and might finally be contained.

5 years after being told she had a year to live with #glioblastoma, Kyle Donohue is still here.

Long-term survivors are forcing scientists to rethink how this brain cancer works--as a wired, adaptive network, not just a tumor to cut out.

New trials aim to disconnect those networks.

rb.gy/r5594a

Kenya rolls out breakthrough HIV drug. Now the real test begins. Kenya has begun to rollout a breakthrough drug for HIV prevention.

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Tania, it’s above my pay grade, I’m afraid. But I always try to make my stories free via gift links.

Join the Pandemic and Emergency Readiness Lab (PERL) and McGill Global Health Programs (GHP) for a special fireside conversation with Jason Gale (@jasongale.bsky.social), Senior Editor at Bloomberg News and author of After Covid, a close examination of the pandemic’s enduring legacy.

Thanks, @bhanlon15.bsky.social Here’s a free link www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Kudos to @jdmunday.bsky.social & other authors of this really elegant study of viral transmission in schools. 👇
Indoor air quality is very important, something we on @independentsage.bsky.social argued strongly during pandemic. Ventilation matters.

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What Covid in Pregnancy May Mean for a Generation of Children A growing body of research shows that exposure to Covid-19 in the womb can have a subtle but lasting impact on brain development.

For much of the pandemic, reassurance about #Covid in #pregnancy rested on one idea: babies didn’t test positive.
New research shows why that was incomplete -- and why exposure in the womb, not infection at birth, is the real concern.
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Covid Left Lasting Rise in Deaths in Rich Countries, Study Shows The pandemic didn’t just pull deaths forward in time. In most rich nations, Covid-19 left a lasting increase in mortality that has yet to fully unwind, according to an analysis of data from 34 countri...

#Covid wasn’t a temporary shock that neatly corrected itself.
A new study in @jamanetworkopen.com from HKU finds deaths in most rich countries never fell enough to offset pandemic losses. The damage stuck.
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A small milestone: the first copies of After Covid are here.

This book exists because of the generosity of hundreds of scientists, clinicians, public-health experts, and patients who agreed to interviews over the years. Thank you.

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Modern ##cancer therapies have turned treatment itself into a #cardiovascular risk factor.
Survivors are living long enough for the damage to surface.
My story for @bloomberg.com via 🎁🔗⤵️
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Life-Saving Cancer Drugs Are Leaving Survivors With Damaged Hearts Doctors say the success of modern cancer care is creating a new challenge: managing treatment-related heart damage for survivors.

Cancer survival is rising fast. So are delayed heart problems caused by the treatments that saved people’s lives. From immune therapies to older chemotherapies, cancer itself is increasingly a risk factor for CVD—often surfacing years later. My latest ⬇️

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Challenging Claims of an Autism Epidemic — Misconceptions and a Path Forward | NEJM Autism research programs should focus on both causes and effective services and supports. Alarmist claims, chasing of debunked theories of causation, and further stigmatizing autism are counterprod...

Challenging Claims of an Autism Epidemic — Misconceptions and a Path Forward | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

A finger-prick blood test that can be mailed to a lab may offer a simpler way to detect brain changes linked to Alzheimer’s, researchers report in Nature Medicine.
It’s not ready for routine care, but it could make early detection, trials & population studies easier.
🎁🔗https://tinyurl.com/3433sj2n

A sudden disruption in the illicit #fentanyl supply, rather than advances in treatment or policing, may explain the sharp drop in US #overdose deaths since mid-2023, according to a new study in @science.org.
See gift link 👇for the story
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Why You Should Never Wash Your Turkey Before Cooking The risk of cross contamination is high.

If you're making the Thanksgiving turkey this year, DO NOT WASH THE RAW BIRD before cooking. @jasongale.bsky.social explains why in Prognosis >
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Cancer Patients Receiving Covid mRNA Shots Show Dramatically Longer Survival The same Nobel-winning mRNA technology that helped curb the Covid-19 pandemic may be poised to transform cancer care.

Covid shots might do more than defend against coronaviruses — they could help fight cancer. New research in @nature.com shows mRNA vaccines may supercharge #immunotherapy.
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How Extreme Hunger in the Womb Fuels a Lifelong Risk of Disease A wartime famine in the Netherlands showed starvation raises disease risk for generations. In Gaza, science suggests the toll won’t end when the food returns.

From Gaza to Haiti, millions of people are on the edge of starvation. A Dutch famine during WWII shows that even when the food returns, future generations face heightened risk of disease.

How Extreme Hunger in the Womb Fuels a Lifelong Risk of Disease A wartime famine in the Netherlands showed starvation raises disease risk for generations. In Gaza, science suggests the toll won’t end when the food returns.

Free link ⬇️

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Yes. It’s a classic!

How Extreme Hunger in the Womb Fuels a Lifelong Risk of Disease A wartime famine in the Netherlands showed starvation raises disease risk for generations. In Gaza, science suggests the toll won’t end when the food returns.

Starvation changes more than the body — it can echo for generations. I spoke with Dr David Barker about this years ago, and his words feel painfully relevant again. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

New ALS Research Vindicates a 92-Year-Old Trailblazer Hi, it’s Jason in Melbourne. A study in Nature last week shows the immune system itself may be fueling amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS — a discovery that validates the life’s work of one of the ...

Soon after Dr. Stanley Appel opened one of the first #ALS clinics in the US in 1982, he found the immune system held clues to the disease.
At 92, new Nature research proves him right.
“Mission not yet accomplished,” he said. “So I’m not retiring.”
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The Fight to Fix Prostate Cancer Care For decades, men with the disease faced a binary choice: live with the cancer, or live with the consequences of removing it. This doctor is pushing an alternative that he says is more precise, humane ...

For decades, prostate cancer care has forced men into a cruel choice:
🪓 Remove the whole prostate, with life-altering side effects
🤷‍♂️ Or risk living with the disease
In London, surgeon Hashim Ahmed is betting on a 3rd way: focal therapy. My story with @ashleighfurlong.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/2rya36ds