This is the first article I've seen that suggests this season's flu is more virulent; what I'd read before said more transmissible, but insisted folks aren't getting sicker than usual.
It also says that the early spike in cases isn't "unusual" &...
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www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...
Please @bmhughes ensure that there is simple, clear CPD and a module in basic #MedEd attached, as per Dr Nina Muirhead or @stripylightcic.bsky.social
Too many Drs and #MedEd are caught in the #CFS #psychosomatic, #biopsychosocial, #FND spiderweb #MedTwitter
Long COVID was associated with work limitations, cognitive dysfunction, and sickness absenteeism among employed US adults. Workplace accommodations may be important considerations for people with long COVID.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
@lcaireland.bsky.social
@lcaireland.bsky.social
New England is #warming faster than the rest of the world, which has correlated with a marked uptick in cases of #tick-borne diseases, including #Lyme, Anaplasmosis and babesiosis in #Maine and throughout the #Northeast. Read more of this report for free at the link below.
Sat 12/7/25 Ireland
Wk 27 Mon to Sun
Very little testing in Ireland
Hospital 150‼️+21-2
Yesterday 149(today+21-2=168)‼️not 150
This wk+158 new‼️
ICU 9+1-1
Yesterday 9
This wk+7 new‼️
covid19ireland-geohive.hub.arcgis.com/pages/hospit...
A new #LongCovid clinical trial is enrolling for bezisterim, an investigational anti-inflammatory drug that crosses the blood-brain barrier.
It has been studied in neurological & neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer’s & Parkinson’s. 1/
Mon 9/6/25 Ireland
Wk 23
Very little testing in Ireland
Hospital 103‼️+10-1
Yesterday 96
ICU 5+1-0
Yesterday 4
covid19ireland-geohive.hub.arcgis.com/pages/hospit...
Harrowing story of a CSF leak misdiagnosed as Alzheimer’s.
#MEspine
Ireland
Week 21 Wastewater results
Levels rising
RED = COVID detected
www.hpsc.ie/a-z/national...
COVID is still here, it is just not getting reported. I read a few weeks ago COVID transmissions were up over 20%. I have 3 different neighbors that have had COVID in the past few weeks. Get your boosters if they are available and wear your masks.
Heart breaking story and a wake up call for those who think Covid is "just a cold":
youtu.be/vqeIeIcDHD0?...
#CovidIsAirborne #CleanAir #CovidisnotOver
A stacked bar chart (oriented horizontally) labeled: Living with ME (myalgic encephalomyelitis / chronic fatigue syndrome) Each horizontal bar is a disease status: Pre-ME, Mild ME, Moderate ME, Severe ME, Very Severe ME. The width of each bar represents how much energy is available in each status (100, 50, 25, 12.5, and 6.25 respectively). Each bar is divided into sections for how one might allocate their energy: hygiene & nutrition (gray); caregiving, cleaning errands (red); work (orange); exercise (yellow); friends (green); hobbies (blue); fun (purple). With worsening ME, the hygiene & nutrition takes up a larger proportion of total available energy and the amount of energy available for all other parts of life shrinks. Mild ME has most things cut in half, with exercise cut smaller. Moderate ME removes exercise altogether, and everything else shrinks. Severe ME has only tiny slivers of red, orange, green, blue and purple. Very Severe ME has only a tiny sliver of green.
NIH recently found 1 in 22 ppl who’d had Covid developed ME/CFS. The “mild” form of that disease, as @julialmv.bsky.social’s graph shows, means losing capacity to do 50% of your daily activities.
What would you give up?
Friends? Time w/your kids? Could you cut work hours in half w/o losing yr job?
Sat 17/5/25 Ireland
Wk 19
Very little testing in Ireland
Hospital 60+12-2
Yesterday 60+12-2= 70 not 60
This wk+ 69 new
ICU 3+0-0
Yesterday 3
This wk+2 new
covid19ireland-geohive.hub.arcgis.com/pages/hospit...
The problem is most of the press frame COVID infections like a one off event and most are catching it once or twice a year. Many I know have had it 7 times. What will the future hold when risks last for years for a multitude of chronic health problems. The strategy to let everyone catch it is nuts.
Tues 1/4/25 Ireland
Wk 13
2024 Total COVID deaths 18/5/24 9,754
2024=288
1/11/24 deaths=10,072
2024=288+318=606?178 road deaths
V little testing
Hospital 41+9-0
Yesterday 38+9-0=47
This wk+17 new
ICU 1+1-0
Yesterday 0
This wk+1 new
covid19ireland-geohive.hub.arcgis.com/pages/hospit...
Please keep this child in your heart and fight for research and care
#LongCovid #chronicillness #disability #LongCovidSupport #CovidIsNotOver
Millions of children worldwide have developed Long COVID, impacting their health, education, and futures. Yet, pediatric research and support remain scarce. This #InternationalLongCovidAwarenessDay, we demand action. Kids deserve care, research, and a path to healing. 💜 #PediatricLongCOVID
Life of a Long Hauler Disbelief, judgement, regular gaslighting Weeks, months and years, spent constantly fighting To find someone, anyone, who’ll listen and hear Who’ll take time to investigate and diminish our fear Is it too much to ask for a medical discovery A chance for improvement, perhaps even recovery With varied symptoms, too many to mention We rest and we pace and await intervention Our bodies exhausted, our minds lost in the dark Life passes us by as we wait for a spark Some small thing to lift us, a glimmer of light We need help to support us and keep up the fight If you’re wondering how much more of this hell you can stand Hang in a bit longer, there’s a helping hand Long Covid Advocacy Ireland helps us to see What’s available out there, that helps us to be Just a little bit better, what won’t help and what might And in time, life will seem just a little more bright. Valerie Howard
We even get a mention 🥰 in this insightful poem we received for #LongCovidAwarenessDay2025
Life of a long hauler
#IrishPoetry #LongCovid #LongCovidAwarenessDay2025 #LongCovidAwareness #LongCovidAwarenessMonth
#LongCovidAwarenessDay
#Ireland #Irish #poetry #Covid
Today, March 15th #LongCovidAwarenessDay2025 thoughtout the day we'll be sharing the experiences of some #LongCovid patients in #Ireland through a series of graphics & #poems
We're grateful to those who participated in this campaign.
#LongCovidAwareness #LongCovidAwarenessDay
BREAKING: Deadly H5N1 Mutation Detected in U.S. Dairy Herds Experts Warn of Rising Pandemic Risk
Scientists are alarmed by a newly identified H5N1 mutation found in four U.S. dairy cow herds, raising concerns about its potential spread.
We're All Vulnerable Now
#Australia
#Covid
#LomgCovid
This has serious implications for the credibility of #Cochrane @Cochrane
Despite years of work and input from the IAG & new author group, Cochrane fails to address critical issues in its review of exercise therapy for ME/CFS. Worse, Cochrane has not followed its own stated processes & principles. Now the IAG has a message for Cochrane. www.meaction.net/2025/01/24/c...
Remember when the pandemic began and everyone started accommodating remote work? Everyone began showing brand new movies and live concerts streaming? Disabled people had been fighting for this for decades. Now it’s all taken away. It’s not that they can’t accommodate us, they just don’t want to.
They’re counting on the public tolerating a 1 in 22 risk because many people don’t really know what ME/CFS looks like. It’s worth seeing for yourself what we’re all being asked to accept.
Great doc about it called UNREST streams free on YouTube. Premiered at Sundance, was Oscar-shortlisted.
Maria Van Kerkhove: “The world I live in right now, no one wants to talk about COVID-19…Everyone is acting as tho this pandemic didn’t really happen…I feel this massive gravitational pull to go back to what we were doing before…There’s no way we should be going back.” www.science.org/content/arti...
🧠 Daily Feed of Brain Damage 🧠
For those who have missed the connection between fronto-temporal hypoperfusion in Neuro-Cövid.
THIS
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