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MaskTogetherColorado retweeted
Sharing an interview with Olivia Belknap, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California, working with kids ages 12+ and adults navigating COVID precautions, chronic illness, and later-in-life autism and ADHD diagnoses. #MaskTogetherAmerica
Read: instagram.com/p/DfaZOgMqc1D/…
ALT Olivia Belknap (@oliviabelknaptherapy), is wearing a pink KN95 and a “Long COVlD Barbie” T-shirt with text that reads, “this Barbie never recovered from her COVlD-19 infection.”
MaskTogetherColorado retweeted
I am stunned at the breathability test results for this Moldex Airwave N95.
I've been testing various masks to see how breathable they are using a testing machine, and the Airwave was so breathable I had to run the test again with another sample just to make sure the test results were real. It is massively more breathable than other good quality N95s I've tested.
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Lower pressure drop scores mean it takes less suction to draw air through the mask. So lower scores are better.
MaskTogetherColorado retweeted
Data published in @JAMAPediatrics and @NIH study in @TheLancet shows ~6M US kids living with Long COVID. exceeding the reported data on asthma, so Long COVID is the most prevalent pediatric chronic condition in our country today.
thelancet.com/journals/lanin…
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…
MaskTogetherColorado retweeted
Reshared >8,000 times on lG. Every platform has limitations, but there is less content suppression, so long as you say booster instead of the v word and spell COVlD with an L.
PMC COVlD Update (U.S.)
Nov 2, 2026
Transmission typically falls in October, but not this year. We're seeing the highest levels for this time of year relative to any prior year since pandemic onset. Let that sink in.
Presently, 47 states and territories have known outbreaks. The PMC model estimates that >1 million Americans are getting infected each day, meeting our criteria for characterizing transmission as a "surge." We estimate that 1 in 43 Americans are actively infectious, varing considerably be region.
Watch the video to learn why I am especially concerned. Find more data and our weekly report:
PMC19.com
Check out our interactive map:
PMC19.com/map
Also, we just added a new feature. You can enter a custom URL to zoom in on your region. For me, it is PMC19.com/70118
Just replace the numbers with your own zip code.
Please drop any questions in the comments!
MaskTogetherColorado retweeted
Metformin given within a week of COVID-19 slashes risk of long COVID, death by 53%, paper notes
If replicated in clinical trials, the observational findings could inform ways to prevent the lingering consequences of infection.
Read more: bit.ly/4A5UXCy
ALT Blurred image of woman holding her head, bracing herself on wall
MaskTogetherColorado retweeted
SARS-CoV-2 levels are atypically high for this time of year.
#MaskUp and vote!
ALT Year over year graph of wastewater-derived case estimates
PMC COVlD Update (U.S.)
Nov 2, 2026
Transmission typically falls in October, but not this year. We're seeing the highest levels for this time of year relative to any prior year since pandemic onset. Let that sink in.
Presently, 47 states and territories have known outbreaks. The PMC model estimates that >1 million Americans are getting infected each day, meeting our criteria for characterizing transmission as a "surge." We estimate that 1 in 43 Americans are actively infectious, varing considerably be region.
Watch the video to learn why I am especially concerned. Find more data and our weekly report:
PMC19.com
Check out our interactive map:
PMC19.com/map
Also, we just added a new feature. You can enter a custom URL to zoom in on your region. For me, it is PMC19.com/70118
Just replace the numbers with your own zip code.
Please drop any questions in the comments!
MaskTogetherColorado retweeted
COVID, Flu & RSV in Colorado update, 11/4/26
Flu indicators continue to rise steadily, except wastewater.
COVID indicators flatten out.
RSV remains rare.
H5N1 is back in our cattle.
MaskTogetherColorado retweeted
Cognitive impairment after COVID is still there five years out - memory, attention, focus, slower processing, orientation, decision making. Severe COVID clearly raises dementia risk too.
The largest, longest study on this so far. 18M adults in England, up to 5.5 years of follow-up. 🧵
MaskTogetherColorado retweeted
Lastly, It's a good time to connect with your public health department & encourage them to promote public health in your community this winter by sharing local data and encouraging masking in healthcare.
@WeMaskColorado has made it easy for you!
Go to: tinyurl.com/public-health-CO
MaskTogetherColorado retweeted
COVID, Flu & RSV in Colorado update, 10/21/26
Flu continues to rise ahead of schedule, but fortunately the rise remains slow and steady.
COVID indicators all change direction and climb.
RSV remains rare.
And an easy public health action for interested Coloradans.
MaskTogetherColorado retweeted
PMC COVlD Update, Oct 26, 2026
🔥44 states with COVlD outbreaks (see Alt)
🔥Double wave peaks, both at an estimated 950,000 new daily infections
🔥6th week in a row of massive CDC upward retroactive corrections going back to early July
THREAD (1/4)
ALT The US has at least 44 states and territories with COVlD outbreaks, a figure identical to last week. The CDC continues to make large, upward retroactive corrections, and we are in a secondary wave peak. States with observed outbreaks include Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Guam, Hawai’i, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and West Virginia. Additional states with poor monitoring likely have outbreaks based on high levels in bordering counties in adjacent states.
MaskTogetherColorado retweeted
For anyone getting into biology, please consider taking airborne disease resistance more seriously.
It's a super important area of medicine that is a huge cause of death and sickness but easily gets forgotten. We're likely to get many more airborne plagues in the future due to the combination of not just extremely dense and interconnected society (including city and farm animals), but also accidents from bio research and offensive biotech (both from random people and from secret government programs that can easily get themselves exempted from safety restrictions), all enhanced by powerful AI.
Right now, this area is getting way less love than longevity research (which continues to be super important!), but it's an area where there are lots of unclaimed wins that we know exactly how to do (but are not yet doing) with present-day tech:
* early detection
* passive universal testing
* filtration/ventilation/UVC
* better vaccines (including making them open source and open science)
* cryptography to make all of the above privacy-preserving
We can have China-level pandemic resistance with Sweden-level limited intrusion into people's lives, and then go even further. We just have to actually do the work for it.
MaskTogetherColorado retweeted
It’s never too late or early for prevention! ❤️😷
PMC COVlD Update, Oct 26, 2026
🔥44 states with COVlD outbreaks (see Alt)
🔥Double wave peaks, both at an estimated 950,000 new daily infections
🔥6th week in a row of massive CDC upward retroactive corrections going back to early July
THREAD (1/4)
ALT The US has at least 44 states and territories with COVlD outbreaks, a figure identical to last week. The CDC continues to make large, upward retroactive corrections, and we are in a secondary wave peak. States with observed outbreaks include Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Guam, Hawai’i, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and West Virginia. Additional states with poor monitoring likely have outbreaks based on high levels in bordering counties in adjacent states.
MaskTogetherColorado retweeted
I very much want to be wrong, but I think this outbreak is going to get much, much worse. Attacks on healthcare workers, active conflict zone, porous borders, sub-optimal surveillance. A very bad combination.
Ebola outbreak in Congo has reached 10,000 confirmed cases, government data showed Tuesday, as health authorities race to slow the spread of the disease in multiple African countries. apnews.com/article/ebola-dis…
MaskTogetherColorado retweeted
This is exactly the scenario that @DrFiliatrault, @TRyanGregory and I warned about in a Scientific American article last summer:
scientificamerican.com/artic…
We weren’t the only ones. This is such a predictable disaster unfolding in slow motion.
There is something really concerning (and disappointing) going on in the US right now.
A dangerous and preventable situation.
Let me explain.
nextstrain.org/avian-flu/h5n…
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MaskTogetherColorado retweeted
My cousin who I haven’t spoken to since around 2021/2022 after she became irate after I shared Covid information with her grandmother, posted that she lost her Mom, son, and uncle in 2020.
She lost her step-sister, fiancé and who would have been in MIL in 2021.
She lost her best friend, brother, and two of her friends from high school in 2022. (She is in her mid 40s).
She lost her aunt, 2 cousins, a friend from work, and her manager in 2023.
She lost two dogs that originally belong to one of her cousins that passed on her father’s side after only having them for a few weeks in 2024.
The same year, her daughter who is now 11 years old, lost her best friend and her best friend’s Mom died. She also lost both of her remaining aunts.
In 2025, her department combined with another department at work because what used to be 8 people was now down to 2.
Three people died. Two went out on medical leave and didn’t return, and one went out on disability in December 2024.
She stated that most of her weekends in 2026 has been driving her grandmother to funerals..and that her grandmother has outlived all 6 of her children….5 daughters including her mother, (one daughter died in Nov/Dec 2019 from “pneumonia”), and a son.
THEN SHE SAID….. “I can’t even imagine Covid being as bad as the SUPER COLDS that they couldn’t shake. Knock on wood, none of us got Covid.”
….and for me…this is why distance is good to maintain sanity,
MaskTogetherColorado retweeted
I really, really dislike the “still masking” framing. It annoys me to no end.
I’m not “still wearing a seatbelt”, so why would I be “still masking”?
Maskers are generally way *ahead* of the curve, because we discovered what should be viewed as a lifelong mitigation fairly early in the paradigm shift from droplet theory -> airborne.
Which is the complete antithesis of “still”, a qualifier that implies masking is a mitigation with a potential end in sight. There isn’t a potential end, at least as far as it being the more scientific and moral choice to use respirators in shared public spaces. It’s the correct science, and it will always be the correct science until the day that we die, and it will continue being the correct science well beyond that point.
Unfortunately, I know that there are a lot of people in the COVID conscious community who are still waiting on a miracle prophylactic drug to be able to remove their masks. I don’t think it’s the majority, but I do know there’s a significant amount. To be clear, if their wish ever does come true, those people, many of whom I fear are the ones using the “still masking” framing, will be indistinguishable from everyone else using past-tense “during COVID” in 2026.
MaskTogetherColorado retweeted
Here is the report from CPR:
cpr.org/2026/10/11/flu-covid…
