A Long-Ignored Syndrome Is Drawing Unprecedented Attention medscape.com/viewarticle/lon…
Refreshing to read Covid cited as a precipitating factor, but no mention of what mitigations against C and other viruses would prevent POTS from occurring in the first place.
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How many times has he said this?
How many times is enough for Vance and the sycophants in the Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment?
Seriously? This is the President of the United States of America?
Trump: I'm the only president to pass. I passed 3 cognitive tests. And they're hard. They have a lion, a bear, a snake, and a camel. They say, which one is the snake? It's a very powerful test, very highly respected test, very well known test, 30 questions, very hard. I passed it all 3 times. I aced it
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Raskin: "When historians look back on this miserable period of our history, they might say that the first problem was disregarding all those women who told us back in 2016 that they had been sexually harassed or assaulted by Donald Trump. But he got elected even after he was adjudicated civilly responsible for sexually attacking E Jean Carroll"
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At large outdoor gatherings, I suspect the vast majority of transmission occurs when attendees are indoors using restrooms, going to restaurants, shopping, using public transportation, etc.
People's infection narratives are prone to myriad psychological biases, defenses, misremembering, and distortions. "I must have gotten it outdoors -- terrible luck" is a lot more satisfying than "I probably got it when eating at an Applebee's."
That said, it's not rocket science. Anyone living much in the north knows exactly what exhalation plumes look like in the winter. Sitting across from a rando for a spell, or standing amid two families where everyone has COVlD suggests a basic disinterest in survival.
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Trump is now talking about Nicki Minaj’s “one hell of a beautiful ass”. This is how the country has fallen.
This is sexual harassment.
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YOUR ATTENTION:
🚨Every new COVID-19 (re)infection elevates your cardiovascular risk profile. Even mild cases can raise the odds of a heart attack, stroke, heart failure, and other CV events for months to years afterward. Risk is higher with more severe illness, yes, but it’s certainly not limited to severe disease. Updated vaccination will show some mitigation(infection severity↓) but doesn’t give you a risk-free pass!
#AvoidSars2 #AvoidReinfections #UpdateVaccination
➡️Supportive links:
1. Xie et al., Nature Medicine (2022): Long-term cardiovascular outcomes of COVID-19 (elevated risk even in non-hospitalized patients, graded by severity).
nature.com/articles/s41591-0…
2. American Heart Association news release (2024) on the UK Biobank analysis (≈2× risk of heart attack/stroke/death for up to 3 years after any COVID-19 infection).
newsroom.heart.org/news/covi…
3. Lindgren et al., Journal of Internal Medicine (2026): Nationwide Swedish matched cohort (nearly doubled long-term MACE and death risk in hospitalized cases, persisting beyond year 1).
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
4. Hadidchi et al., Journal of Human Hypertension (2026): Elevated CV outcomes (including in non-hospitalized patients) among those with pre-existing hypertension.
nature.com/articles/s41371-0…
5. CARTESIAN study, European Heart Journal (2025): Accelerated vascular aging / arterial stiffness after COVID-19, including mild cases:
academic.oup.com/eurheartj/a…
➡️These five links give a clear progression from the early 2022 data through 2024–2026 confirmation!!
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Grateful to @NPR for the chance to talk about how stress and infections like COVID can stir dormant viruses in our bodies, and what that may mean for our immune system. Still much to learn, and I’m thankful to my team and colleagues for their work 🎧 npr.org/2026/10/23/nx-s1-598…
Thanks.
We don't know this man, Doug Whitley, but he's definitely an American hero for writing this excellent letter-to-the-editor.
#ResistTrump
Check out this article: cnn.com/2026/10/21/politics/…
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Cognitive phenotypes and neuropsychological trajectories in post-COVID-19 syndrome: a 12-month follow-up study
🚨LongC0VID brains: memory often rebounds within a year, but attention and processing speed stay stuck. New 12-month study of 92 patients shows selective recovery, not full return to baseline. The daily life consequences...... 👇😧
➡️This again interesting Spanish 12-month longitudinal study followed 92 adults with post-COVID19 syndrome (PCS: mean age ~49 years, predominantly women) who had previously undergone comprehensive neuropsychological assessment,
➡️Participants were retested after roughly 1 year using the same battery covering attention/processing speed, memory, executive functions, visuospatial abilities, and language,
➡️Pre–post comparisons (Wilcoxon tests with FDR correction) showed significant gains mainly in verbal memory (learning and recall measures), visual memory, matrix reasoning, inhibitory control, and certain action-processing tasks (fluency and naming),
➡️In contrast, attention and processing-speed measures remained largely unchanged,
➡️Using a domain-based phenotype approach, the proportion of participants classified as having normal cognition increased (from 65.1 % to 77.1 % at the −1 SD cutoff and from 83.1 % to 86.7 % at the stricter cutoff),
➡️Residual impairment was predominantly single-domain and driven by attention/processing speed,
➡️Multi-domain profiles that persisted also frequently involved this domain,
➡️Exploratory analyses linked neither cognitive reserve nor affective symptoms strongly to trajectories,
➡️The sample characteristics note that 51 % reported COVID-19 reinfection and 90 % were vaccinated. The study does not analyse or report any specific effects of reinfection or vaccination status on cognitive trajectories, phenotypes, or recovery rates,
➡️Overall, the data indicate selective, partial cognitive recovery in PCS, with attention and processing speed emerging as the most persistent vulnerabilities.
‼️So, one year later, memory and some higher-level thinking skills improved in people with LongC0VID syndrome, yet attention and processing speed barely recovered, leaving a lasting vulnerability.
In everyday terms: trouble focusing and thinking quickly can still make ordinary things harder, staying concentrated while driving in traffic, flying as a pilot, keeping up with a complicated conversation, meeting work deadlines, or using phones and computers without getting overwhelmed.
Memory often gets better (so people may forget less), but the stubborn attention problems can leave them slower, more mentally drained, and make it tougher to fully get back to work or social life even when other thinking skills improve. Sound familiar???
#AvoidSars2 #AvoidReinfections
nature.com/articles/s41598-0…
Long COVID associated with SARS-CoV-2 reinfection among children and adolescents in the omicron era (RECOVER-EHR): a retrospective cohort study - The Lancet Infectious Diseases thelancet.com/journals/lanin…
The Obvious Step That Could Mean Fewer Fraternity Sexual Assaults nytimes.com/2026/10/16/opini… via @NYTOpinion
Interesting proposal.
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Another year, another confirmation of the change in trend here.
ALT “There is growing concern among clinicians and researchers that COVID-19 infection may be contributing to a striking rise in rare but serious neuromuscular conditions such as motor neuron disease (MND) and spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) among younger adults. While these disorders are typically regarded as genetic or idiopathic, mounting evidence suggests that viral infections - particularly those that provoke intense immune dysregulation, vascular inflammation, or mitochondrial damage - can unmask latent vulnerabilities in the motor neurons or trigger autoimmune processes that mimic degenerative disease. SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, is now known to invade the nervous system directly, infecting glial and endothelial cells, and to induce persistent inflammatory cascades that can damage motor pathways and peripheral nerves.