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The Bird Site has become more vulnerable to disinformation and misinformation.

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https://mas.to/@drericding/109429420954537073
Eric Feigl-Ding (@[email protected])

Bad news—it seems @Twitter just updated its misleading info policy that #COVID19 misinformation will no longer be enforced. The 11k accounts that were suspended under the old policy will soon be restored. Twitter's data shows 11,000 accounts were suspended under the #COVID misinformation policy— with almost 100,000 pieces of content were removed since 2020. https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/covid-19 Subscribe to my Journal: https://drericding.substack.com/subscribe

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But besides the weakening of the Bird against Information Operations, there’s been pressure against journalism as a whole.

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https://mas.to/@robsonfletcher/109435523103733082
Robson Fletcher (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image The number of journalists in Canada — and especially Alberta — continues to shrink. New census data shows only about 10,500 working across the country last year. In Alberta? Only about 750. On a per-capita basis, the number of Alta. journalists has been cut in half since 2001:

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"All told, long Covid is a $3.7 trillion drag on the U.S. economy — about 17% of our nation’s pre-pandemic economic output"

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https://mastodon.social/@myownpetard/109436328267247564
Raj Rajnarayanan :verified: (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image Wastewater data from @[email protected] SARSCoV2 content in waster water is surging in the USA-South region USA-Northeast, Midwest and West regions are already at a high plateau!

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Wes Ely MD :verified: (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image 1/🧵Human Reproduction and COVID Face it, this virus invades all facets of our lives – even making babies. The ACE2 receptor is in testicles, ovary, uterus, vagina and placenta Pregnancy is affected, sperm counts are reduced, impotence occurs. A bit of data to ponder… https://bit.ly/3VIEaBc

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Empathy1st (@[email protected])

New Ultrasound Study Shows Increased Liver Stiffness 10 Months After COVID-19 Infection: ā€œOur study is part of emerging evidence that COVID-19 infection may lead to liver injury that lasts well after the acute illness." https://www.diagnosticimaging.com/view/new-ultrasound-study-shows-increased-liver-stiffness-10-months-after-covid-19-infection h/t @MeetJess

zeroes.ca
COVID may reveal new challenges over winter as people face down a "soup" of variants.

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COVID numbers are rising over winter, as expected. Please stay safe this season.

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https://mas.to/@aderfel/109440547969940034
Aaron Derfel :mastodon: (@[email protected])

1) BREAKING: Hospitalizations for and with #COVID have risen for 10 days in a row in Quebec, climbing by 33 to 1,979, the Health Ministry reported Thursday. That's the highest tally in nearly six weeks. Yet of late, government officials have been silent about this resurgence.

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Cameron MacLeod (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image Strong review of the things we know about COVID, three years into the pandemic, from @thetyee. Un examen approfondi de ce que l'on sait sur COVID, trois ans après le début de la pandémie, de @thetyee. Source and/et citations (anglais): https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2022/12/21/Ten-Downplayed-COVID-Facts/ #COVID #COVIDisAirborne #science #medicine #PublicHealth

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Irene Tosetti, MD, MBA MPH (@[email protected])

Cardiac surgeon from one of Canada's leading children hospitals speaks out and describes what is going on. Including the likely immune dysfunction after covid. https://globalnews.ca/news/9349552/kids-bc-doctor-respiratory-illness-deaths/

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More on the issue of COVID and immune dysregulation.

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https://mstdn.science/@jeffgilchrist/109602928185004775
Jeff Gilchrist (@[email protected])

You know the situation is not good when even the WHO is now warning about immune dysregulation, vascular harm and neurological issues ( https://twitter.com/Sandyboots2020/status/1608402400817336322 ). 21/

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COVID requires that we confront its challenges with the best information and logic we can bring forward.

From the start of COVID, China always takes the position that the communist party is and always will be right. Anything that contradicts that original position gets purged. Dr Ai Fen and Dr Li Wenliang, and others tried to share information in 2019 and 2020. They were shunned for their efforts to save lives.

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/china-covid-global-concern-testing-requirements-1.6699690
Lack of information on China's COVID-19 surge stirs global concern | CBC News

Six countries, including Italy and the U.S., have announced testing requirements for passengers from China, as the country continues to be accused of not being forthcoming about the virus.

CBC
No one country is perfect. Canada's performance will have to be shaped and re-shaped as the pandemic unfolds.

A system of disease control must roll out with a notion that some players do not see timely communication of pandemic related information as a shared interest.

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Over a million Americans died of COVID and counting.

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https://ohai.social/@Madhattermommy/109691565747780215
MadHatterMommy (@[email protected])

I worry about people that follow me after reading my posts.

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"Imprinting is often presented as a problem, but it’s a fundamental part of immune memory that delivers a lightning-fast response to a viral invader, without having to start from scratch. 'To me,' says Victora, 'it means that the immune system is quite smart at covering its bases.'"

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https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00086-1
How your first brush with COVID warps your immunity

The immune system responds more strongly to the strain of a virus that it first met, weakening response to other strains. Can this ā€˜imprinting’ be overcome?

Eric Topol (@[email protected])

Heart attacks and strokes are doubled late (>30 d) after Covid, And vaccination helps reduce these cardiovascular outcomes. A review of the full data set https://erictopol.substack.com/p/heart-attacks-and-strokes-late-after

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Albertans should take note that Healthcare Professionals require support which is presently not provided for by AB GOV. These are educated, intelligent individuals and they will move to areas or jurisdictions that will properly value them.

While hindsight is 20/20, it seems that the UCP spent most of its energy abusing people on social media, and implementing very short sighted budget cuts on various portfolios, including health and fire. Anyone deciding to take positions here in AB would research AB GOV before proceeding.

The UCP has damaged Alberta’s reputation, and potentially hindered AB’s ability to attract talent for healthcare and other fields for generations. There will be experience and learning gaps in our healthcare system for years - if not decades.

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https://mas.to/@robsonfletcher/110424764981729328

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DZRN3GH3f_zFS80pgdQbr7RzE46-_I99XmLcPNSfipk/edit
Robson Fletcher (@[email protected])

'"Truthfully, we are having patients die in the waiting room again," said ER physician Dr. Sean Fair. "And this is not something that happened in Calgary for many years, by and large." Alberta Health Services did not respond directly to questions about waiting room deaths. CBC News reached out to the health authority with a number of questions regarding the doctors' concerns but did not receive specific answers to any of them.' https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-doctors-warn-emergency-rooms-collapsing-1.6852938 #yyc #calgary #alberta #ableg #cdnpoli

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Albertans are slowly coming alive to an underlying message about their healthcare system. As it turns out, Alberta has to create spaces to attract talent. Albertan politicians do not yet want the public to connect the dots that their misinformation, rhetoric, and bad press may actually cause real harm to Albertans.

https://pressprogress.ca/danielle-smith-suggested-police-officers-could-face-criminal-charges-for-enforcing-public-health-orders/

Albertans work hard to recruit healthcare staff, and they are clearly sabotaged by their own AB GOV.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/staff-shortages-keep-operating-rooms-at-high-prairie-hospital-closed-for-years-1.6898168

"Panasiuk said the town of High Prairie has partnered with the surrounding Big Lakes County on an attraction and retention committee"

https://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/alberta-doctors-call-for-investigation-apology-over-decision-about-hinshaw-1.6456917

"positions are unsafe and could be targeted for political gain."

https://edmontonjournal.com/news/politics/alberta-sunshine-list-shows-taxpayers-paid-millions-to-fire-top-ahs-brass-in-2022

"Former CEO and president Dr. Verna Yiu's package was the highest among 23 executives, directors, managers or advisers who were paid a total of $3.62 million in severance"

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Danielle Smith Suggested Police Officers Could Face Criminal Charges For Enforcing Public Health Orders

Two weeks before becoming Premier of Alberta, Danielle Smith floated idea that RCMP officers ā€˜broke the law’ by enforcing Public Health Act

PressProgress
ā€œā€˜He's not just tired,’ she said. ā€˜It is flat out, we can't wake him up.’

Long COVID symptoms include severe fatigue, malaise, headaches and other neurological symptoms like brain fog, as well as nausea, decreased appetite, weight loss, joint pain and loss of smell and taste. Symptoms emerge in the three months after infection and last anywhere from a couple of months to years.ā€

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"We had one young man that was set to go to college on a track and field scholarship — but because of this infection, that totally disappeared,"

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https://www.salon.com/2023/08/27/long-is-debilitating-children-and-doctors-worry-there-arent-enough-centers-to-treat-them/
As kids return to school and COVID cases rise, experts warn that long COVID cases are debilitating children

Doctors and parents say it can take months to get treatment — if their symptoms are even taken seriously

Salon.com
"A surge in COVID-19 cases across countries in the Northern Hemisphere is causing concern for global health authorities, given that these regions usually witness a peak in respiratory illnesses during the winter months.ā€

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https://globalnews.ca/news/9919665/covid-infections-northern-hemisphere/
Large number of COVID-19 reinfections in Northern Hemisphere ā€˜concerning’: WHO

The World Health Organization on Friday urged countries to strengthen their surveillance and reporting of COVID-19 amid the spike in hospitalizations in northern nations.

Global News
"Historically, AI/AN communities have faced challenges in accessing quality healthcare due to geographic remoteness, limited healthcare infrastructure, socioeconomic constraints, historical trauma, and discriminatory policies," the study authors wrote. "These barriers have been exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic, further intensifying health disparities, and hindering timely diagnosis, treatment, and management of the disease."

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https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/native-americans-outsized-risk-severe-covid-19-death

https://mstdn.ca/@DiverDoc/110980578445839960
Native Americans at outsized risk of severe COVID-19, death

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"Some thought the virus would settle into a strictly seasonal pattern. It hasn’t.ā€

"We found that those who had battled the BA.1-2 variant of Omicron in early 2022 had a 30-fold higher risk of contracting the BA.5 variant later in the year. That was exactly the opposite of what we, or anyone, would have predicted.ā€

"We know the protective value of multiple COVID vaccines does not accumulate like money in a bank account. It’s the recency of our boosters that will determine our degree of protection.ā€

ā€œā€¦ hybrid immunity does not always protect older adults from future COVID-19 infection, suggesting that some assumptions about COVID-19 infection risk may need to be revisitedā€

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https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2023/09/04/COVID-Continues-Surprise-Us-Stay-Safer/
COVID Continues to Surprise Us. Here’s How to Stay Safer | The Tyee

Boosters shots are critical, even for those who have tested positive.

The Tyee
"A new, rapidly spreading coronavirus variant has sounded alarm bells for public health experts in the United States amid a rise in cases across the country.

Doctors warned that the BA.2.86 variant – unofficially called ā€œPirolaā€ – may be cause for concern as it is a newly-designated, highly-mutated variant of Omicron which triggered a surge in cases in a number of countries including the US.ā€

"A separate mini-wave of Covid cases is being fueled by the newest dominant variant EG.5, or ā€œErisā€. It has caused hospitalisations to increase by 39 per cent since the end of July.ā€

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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/covid-variant-pirola-ba-286-symptoms-latest-b2404287.html
US households can now order four free Covid tests from the government: Latest guidelines

An updated Coronavirus booster is now being rolled out nationwide

The Independent
Can Covid Damage Your Heart? A Look At Short- and Long-Term Health Risks

Three years into the pandemic, the short- and long-term risks are becoming more clear.

The New York Times
Alberta's new COVID stats page can be confusing. Here are the key numbers — and what they mean | CBC News

Alberta's new respiratory virus dashboard provides weekly data on the spread of COVID-19 in the province, but making sense of the numbers can be a challenge — and it's particularly difficult to figure out how many people have died.

CBC
Alberta's COVID death toll up by 17 since last week, with 190 more hospitalizations | CBC News

Another 17 Albertans have died from COVID, according to the latest weekly data released by the province on Thursday. That brings the death toll for the current season to 323.

CBC
"The documents, obtained through an access to information request, consist of dozens of pages of communications between officials at Alberta Health, the government ministry, and Alberta Health Services, the provincial health authority. They show that, in addition to ordering AHS to remove references to specific vaccines, the government instructed the health authority to limit information on vaccine benefits and efficacy.ā€

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https://www.cochraneeagle.ca/local-news/alberta-directed-removal-of-covid-flu-references-in-fall-vaccine-campaign-documents-show-8014836
Alberta directed removal of COVID, flu references in fall vaccine campaign, documents show

Documents show the provincial government also instructed the health authority to limit information on the benefits and efficacy of vaccination

Cochrane Eagle
"Back in January, Canada's national vaccine advisory body set the stage for another round of spring vaccinations. In a statement, the National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) stated that starting in spring 2024, individuals at an increased risk of severe COVID may get an extra dose of the latest XBB.1.5-based vaccines, which better protect against circulating virus variants.

That means:

-Adults aged 65 and up.
-Adult residents of long-term care homes and other congregate living settings for seniors.
-Anyone six months of age or older who is moderately to severely immunocompromised.ā€

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/spring-covid-vaccine-1.7156121
Do you need a spring COVID-19 vaccine? Research backs extra round for high-risk groups | CBC News

Various Canadian provinces are rolling out spring COVID-19 vaccination campaigns, allowing higher-risk individuals to get an extra dose.

CBC

From "Kids keep getting sicker as evidence for COVID immune damage builds ", by Julia Doubleday:

"The data doesn’t lie, and a Bloomberg News analysis showed that:

outbreaks of diseases such as measles, whooping cough, tuberculosis and polio, as well as dengue and cholera are surging worldwide…[the] study has compiled data from over 60 organisations and public health agencies showing that the world is seeing a resurgence of at least 13 infectious diseases, with cases higher than before the pandemic in many regions. Over 40 countries or territories have reported at least one infectious disease resurgence that’s 10-fold or more over their pre-pandemic baseline.

It’s not debatable: people are sicker. "
..."If we were to see immune damage manifesting at a population level, it would look like what we’re seeing today: big waves of common illnesses. Unusual spikes of uncommon illnesses. Course reversal for previously declining and eliminated illnesses. An unexplained, global wave of sickness."#COVIDInfo

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https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/kids-keep-getting-sicker-as-evidence?r=223wa

Kids keep getting sicker as evidence for COVID immune damage builds

As the press pushes "immunity debt" past the breaking point of believability, are parents ready to wake up to the illness crisis?

The Gauntlet
@ginnoi

From "'Long COVID Mode': Seeing the crisis through games", by Kate Fishman:

"Games are surprisingly useful communication tools in a world in denial about COVID-19 and Long COVID."

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https://thesicktimes.org/2025/05/06/long-covid-mode-seeing-the-crisis-through-games/

ā€œLong COVID Modeā€: Seeing the crisis through games - The Sick Times

Games uniquely incorporate emotional and social factors that influence how we take in information — making them surprisingly useful communication tools in a world in denial about the ongoing threats of COVID-19 and Long COVID. Whether through the cathartic storytelling in indie designers’ interactive theater projects or learning opportunities woven into popular video games, playing games can help people make informed decisions amid the Long COVID crisis.

The Sick Times - Chronicling the Long Covid crisis
@ginnoi

via @DenisCOVIDinfoguy

Long COVID may cause long-term changes in heart and lungs, leading to cardiac and pulmonary diseases.

A new study from Mount Sinai, published April 30, finds long COVID patients may have heart and lung inflammation lasting up to a year following SARS-CoV-2 infection.

"Since 2020, we have been publishing work showing that even mild or asymptomatic COVID infections can have serious cardiovascular consequences, even in previously fit and healthy individuals," says David Putrino, Ph.D

Study: https://jnm.snmjournals.org/content/early/2025/04/30/jnumed.124.268980

Source: https://archive.md/kaMKg

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https://aus.social/@DenisCOVIDinfoguy/114463375952118269

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Prevalence of Persistent Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Abnormalities on PET/MRI and DECT Imaging in Long COVID Patients

The objective of this study is to describe the prevalence of inflammatory cardiopulmonary findings in a prospective cohort of long coronavirus disease (LC) patients. Methods: Subjects with a history of coronavirus disease 2019 infection, persistent cardiopulmonary symptoms 9–12 mo after initial infection, and a clinical assessment compatible with LC underwent cardiopulmonary 18F-FDG PET/MRI, dual-energy CT (DECT) of the lungs, and plasma protein analysis (subgroup). A control group that included subjects with a history of acute severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection but without cardiopulmonary symptoms at recruitment was also characterized. Results: Ninety-eight patients (median age, 48.5 y; 47% men) were enrolled. The most common LC symptom was shortness of breath (80%), and 27% of participants were hospitalized. Of the subjects, 90% presented abnormalities in DECT, with 67% and 59% of participants demonstrating pulmonary infiltrates and abnormal perfusion, respectively. PET/MRI was abnormal for 57% of subjects: 24% showed cardiac involvement suggestive of myocarditis, 22% presented uptake reminiscent of pericarditis, 11% showed periannular uptake, and 30% showed vascular uptake (aortic or pulmonary). There was no myocardial, pericardial, periannular, or pulmonary uptake on the PET/MRI scans of the control group ( n = 9). Analysis of plasma protein concentrations showed significant differences between the LC and the control groups. Lastly, the plasma protein profile was significantly different among LC patients with abnormal and normal PET/MRI. Conclusion: In LC subjects evaluated up to a year after coronavirus disease 2019 infection, our results indicate a high prevalence of abnormalities on PET/MRI and DECT, as well as significant differences in the peripheral biomarker profile, which might warrant further monitoring to exclude the development of complications such as pulmonary hypertension and valvular disease.

Journal of Nuclear Medicine
@ginnoi

via @DenisCOVIDinfoguy

USA: Highly infectious new COVID strain hits US.

"The new NB.1.81 variant was first detected in the US in late March and early April among international travelers arriving at airports in California, Washington State, Virginia and New York City, with additional cases reported in Ohio, Rhode Island and Hawaii."

Source: https://archive.md/sBAsK

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