Frances Daily

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Experienced as GP, ID/IPC, AMS/AMR, public health, MCH, medical and other health prof education mostly in LMIC countries. Gardener, traveler, nature lover

This isn't a climate solution. We can't "you do you" ourselves out of the climate crisis.

We need federal standards that protect workers from the heat, and to keep fossil fuels in the ground.

And here’s a fuzzier shot of the lady from the front, her long ovipositor seen down in the crack.

Somehow it feels a bit voyeuristic to be posting these pictures 🫢 but it’s all in the name of science, I say.

"The era of global warming has ended. The era of global boiling has arrived.

The air is unbreathable, the heat is unbearable, and the level of fossil fuel profits and climate inaction is unacceptable.

Humanity has unleashed destruction. This must not inspire despair, but action."

— United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres

@edyong209 has knocked it out of the park again with his latest on #LongCOVID and #MECFS: what fatigue really means in the context of these illnesses.

As a severe ME/CFS patient, my fatigue means: I spend the vast majority of my time (22-23h) in bed, eyes shut. I've been able to add tolerable activity in and outside the home with the use of wheelchairs. I haven't been able to stand for more than a minute or two for months.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2023/07/chronic-fatigue-long-covid-symptoms/674834/
Paywall bypass: https://archive.li/7Qmi6

Fatigue Is So Much More Than Being Tired

Everyday tiredness is nothing like the depleting symptom that people with long COVID and ME/CFS experience.

The Atlantic

As long as an account brings Twitter (X) engagement and revenue they will bend on their principles on dangerous and harmful content.

From: @JosephMenn
https://infosec.exchange/@JosephMenn/110788272833247593

JosephMenn (@[email protected])

Gift link: Twitter under fire after reinstating account that posted child sex abuse. With @drewharwell https://wapo.st/470xll4

Infosec Exchange
“If someone else is in that type of situation, it could be a medical emergency,” said Monica Verduzco-Gutierrez, the chair of rehabilitation medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. Speech impairment is one of the five key signs of a stroke, and it’s important to rule out the most serious possible explanations when someone experiences such symptoms. #stroke #medicine #FirstAid https://archive.is/PvjqK

Lowest income had the highest death rate.

Reminder the top doctors in public health - the ones who are in charge of pandemic response in Ontario - make 200,000 to 300,000 and up a year.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/top-medical-experts-call-for-national-inquiry-into-canada-s-covid-19-failures-1.6916419

Top medical experts call for national inquiry into Canada's COVID-19 'failures' | CBC News

Three and a half years after the virus behind COVID-19 began its rampage around the world — eventually killing tens of thousands of Canadians — a group of top medical experts is calling on federal officials to launch a full national inquiry into Canada's pandemic response.

CBC

UNFATHOMABLE

UK researchers declare burden of Long Covid "so large as to be unfathomable"

Unfathomable.

#CovidIsNotOver #Covid #LongCovid
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/2018899512/prof-danny-altmann-the-burden-of-long-covid

Prof Danny Altmann: the burden of long COVID

World leading immunologist Professor Danny Altmann has declared the future burden of long COVID to be "so large as to be unfathomable". He has published a scientific review of long COVID in Nature, asserting if 10% of acute infections lead to persistent symptoms, up to 400 million people could be in need of support for long COVID worldwide. While the Australian government has allocated $50m for long COVID research, in New Zealand there has been zero investment for bio-medical long COVID research to understand and treat the condition. Professor in the Faculty of Medicine, Department of Immunology and Inflammation at Imperial College London, Professor Altmann has been studying T cells for four decades, and is interested in why people suffer debilitating consequences so long after COVID infection.

RNZ

World leading immunologist Professor Danny Altmann has declared the future burden of long COVID to be "so large as to be unfathomable".

He has published a scientific review of long COVID in Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41577-023-00904-7

Listen to the full podcast here: https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/2018899512/prof-danny-altmann-the-burden-of-long-covid

#COVID19 #LongCOVID @auscovid19

The immunology of long COVID - Nature Reviews Immunology

SARS-CoV-2 infection can lead to a diverse array of chronic symptoms, collectively termed ‘long COVID’. In this Review, Altmann and colleagues explore current thinking about the pathophysiology of long COVID and discuss potential immunological mechanisms.

Nature