Some highlights from @ducky 's weekly roundup at https://covidbc.webfoot.com/2025/03/28/2025-03-28-general/

SARS-CoV-2 can interact with / activate the CD147 receptor to get into lymphocytes (T-cells and B-cells). (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2319417023000872)

women are 13.4 times more likely to get Long COVID if they are 🤰pregnant than if they are 🚫🤰not, with the danger highest if they catch COVID-19 in the third trimester. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0002937825001474)

the rate of cases of postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) has gone up more than fourteen times compared to pre-pandemic (https://academic.oup.com/ehjqcco/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/ehjqcco/qcae111/7945206)

#CovidCompetent #AirborneAware #CovidIsNotOver #COVID #COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #pandemic #MaskUp #WearAMask #cleanAir

The good news is SARS-CoV-2 and Long COVID research are advancing fast.

Luckily people are generously devoting time to roundups like these:

https://longcovidweekly.substack.com/p/long-covid-weekly-132-a-new-name

https://covidbc.webfoot.com/2025/03/15/2025-03-15-general/

#AirborneAware #CovidCompetent #SARSCoV2 #CovidIsNotOver #COVID #COVID19 #publicHealth #pandemic #LongCOVID

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.

How much more denial can the bodies of our children take? Are we going to force them to find out?

lots of citations demonstrating that damage and more at https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/kids-keep-getting-sicker-as-evidence

#AirborneAware #CovidCompetent #LongCOVID #CovidIsNotOver #COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #immunity

I thought I'd read "just one more paper" (uh huuuh 😏) tonight

Semi-randomly landed on https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01260-6 from 2021

...huh

"The simplest solution to this is for social-media companies to remove the anti-vaxx misinformation superspreaders: the professional propagandists making a living from the anti-vaxx industry, from their platforms, as detailed in our July 2020 report. There is no moral justification for profiting from harmful lies, and there is no legal barrier to social-media companies’ removing them for breach of their terms of service. In fact, in the USA, moderation decisions are explicitly protected by law. The problem has never been ability; instead, it has been the will to act. Tech companies have failed to act because their business model relies upon keeping users on their platforms scrolling through content interspersed with advertising, regardless of that content’s impact on society. Their failure to act should be punished with tough government regulation." 💥

and that closing paragraph: "All of us have been doing our bit in 2020 and 2021 to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. Think of the friends and family you have not seen. Think of the medics risking their own lives and losing patients to this cruel virus. Think of the Herculean efforts made by scientists to develop a vaccine in record time. The anti-vaxx industry and technology companies, however, for their own solipsistic reasons, threaten to derail all that progress. It is up to all of us to stop them from doing so."

#CovidCompetent #CovidIsNotOver #COVID #COVID19 #pandemic #socialMedia #politics #policy #vaccines

➡️ Clean water - no cholera. ❌
➡️ Clean air - no covid. ❌
➡️ Clean info - no disinformation. 📵🙊

#cleanAir #cleanWater #CovidCompetent #covid #cholera #disinformation #choleraInTheAgeOfCovid