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Dr. Harry Spoelstra

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Cardiovascular surgeon with daily CV science information on SarsCoV2/C19/LC, only active on X: @HarrySpoelstra

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Exception: Important science, I need to share with all blueS "asylum seekers"!🀣

"COVID-19 is β€œAirborne AIDS”: provocative oversimplification, emerging science, or something in between?"

πŸ”₯Excellent work from an outstanding group of C19 scientists: #Mustread πŸ‘‡
www.ajpmfocus.org/article/S277...

15.10.2025 13:47 πŸ‘ 55 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 4
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The battle against #LongCovid on the cover of Science Translational Medicine. Lot of important articles here bit.ly/3YN1ktt

13.11.2024 22:26 πŸ‘ 163 πŸ” 43 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1

Recent research, yes, I know, but still far from zero risk! Don't put your hopes up too high! 😷

11.11.2024 08:29 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Infection Aftershock: COVID-19’s Long-Term Impact on Your Heart

I've been warning for this and more...... from back in 2020!

WAKE-UP, #YouOnlyHaveOneHeart,
AVOID SARSCOV2/#reinfections
scitechdaily.com/infection-af...

10.11.2024 23:40 πŸ‘ 211 πŸ” 84 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 3
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EG.5.1.1*(HK)/JN.1 recombinant, singlet USA New York Β· Issue #1024 Β· sars-cov-2-variants/lineage-p... Description: HK.3/JN.1 recombinant, 2 breaking points, Spike from JN.1 Private mutation: C13437C Breakpoint: First between nucleotide 6541 - 7842, second 25416 - 26270 One sequence from: 2023-03-29...

Cunning SarsCoV2 opening a new box of tricks, bringing together the best of two?? πŸ€”

➑️" EG.5.1.1*(HK)/JN.1 recombinant from New York, with a JN.1 Spike"

github.com/sars-cov-2-v...

28.10.2023 07:46 πŸ‘ 31 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Congrats Max, best team, best car, best driver 🍾πŸ₯‚

07.10.2023 18:21 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Nobody else cares. Sadly, the situation today, it has now become an egocentric society for your own health. Blame your governments if you feel offended!😷 3/3

04.10.2023 14:19 πŸ‘ 24 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

slowly getting eroded, even dysfunctional in some, or showing signs of growing insufficiency in others. #Longcovid
To put bluntly, everybody across all ages is or could become the vulnerable today, in one or another way, nobody knows their own tipping point😬
➑️Take care of yourself. 2/3

04.10.2023 14:18 πŸ‘ 27 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Hear a lot that with the new Omicron subvariants, the vulnerable are only of concern, well....than I have news for you!
You, yes, probably you too, have or will maybe become the vulnerable today after one or more covid-19 episodes. Your acquired post-infection/vaccine immunity isn't solid ...1/3

04.10.2023 14:15 πŸ‘ 50 πŸ” 23 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Thinking of that old story of a Dutch boy finding a hole in a weakend dike(our diverse waning immunity)and sticking his finger(XBB.1.5 booster) in it to stop the leaking in a 9Bft storm(variant swarm/BA.2.86). That didn't work out well.The dike collapsed,with immense flooding,just thinking out loudπŸ€”

03.10.2023 21:52 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Direct Infection of SARS-CoV-2 in Human iPSC-Derived 3D Cardiac Organoids Recapitulates COVID-19 Myo...

β€œHeart damage is a COMMON feature in COVID-19 patients”

βž‘οΈβ€œPAN-TISSUE tropism of SARS-CoV-2”(➑️LongCovid).

βž‘οΈβ€œDirect damage to myocardial and endocardial lineages, and subsequent defects in myocardial contractile function”

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

03.10.2023 10:29 πŸ‘ 64 πŸ” 30 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 3
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Tonsils are major sites of persistence of SARS-CoV-2 in children

"Palatine tonsils and adenoids are sites of prolonged RNA presence by SARS-CoV-2 in children, even without COVID-19 symptoms."

journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

26.09.2023 09:53 πŸ‘ 30 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Thanks Hank, now I needn't publish this great overview again. You did my work!πŸ‘πŸ‘

22.09.2023 20:00 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1
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Visual representation of thematic analysis results from both paediatric patient and parent/caregiver interviews.

Figure 1 Visual representation of thematic analysis results from both paediatric patient and parent/caregiver interviews.

Persistent symptoms and conditions among children and adolescents hospitalised with COVID-19 illness: a qualitative study (09/23)

H/T @harryspoelstra.bsky.social

#ProtectTheChildren

bmjopen.bmj.com/content/13/9...

22.09.2023 10:21 πŸ‘ 27 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Does the risk of getting long Covid increase each time you get reinfected? "It's very clear in our data that reinfection contributes additional risk of long Covid," says epidemiologist Ziyad Al-Aly.

❗️"It’s very clear in our data that reinfection contributes additional risk of long Covid"

➑️ Keep this in mind with the new COVID-19 waves appearing in many places😷

www.statnews.com/2023/09/20/d...

20.09.2023 17:00 πŸ‘ 41 πŸ” 22 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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Unpacking Cochrane’s Update on Masks and COVID-19 Unpacking Cochrane’s Update on Masks and COVID-19, an article from American Journal of Public Health, Vol 113 Issue 10

❗"Taken together, these and other studies strongly indicate that masking is an effective intervention to reduce transmission of SARS-CoV-2 (source control)"

ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/...

20.09.2023 15:45 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Sweden "Herd-Community" waking up to a new and hard post-covid19 reality!😬

19.09.2023 13:36 πŸ‘ 64 πŸ” 26 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 2