⋆⁺₊ Alba ࿐ iteotwawki
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Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Long Covid brain study shows cortical thickening & decreased microstructural integrity in white matter
Findings correalate with low performance in working memory, verbal memory, mental processing speed, verbal fluency and executive functions
Findings correalate with low performance in working memory, verbal memory, mental processing speed, verbal fluency and executive functions
How SARS-CoV-2 Damages the Brain
"SARS-CoV-2 is associated with changes in brain structure"
785 participants imaged before & after Covid infection showed gray matter loss, increased tissue damage markers, and reduced global brain size, even in mostly mild cases.
www.nature.com/articles/s4...
"SARS-CoV-2 is associated with changes in brain structure"
785 participants imaged before & after Covid infection showed gray matter loss, increased tissue damage markers, and reduced global brain size, even in mostly mild cases.
www.nature.com/articles/s4...
SARS-CoV-2 is associated with changes in brain structure in UK Biobank
Nature - After infection with SARS-CoV-2, individuals show a greater reduction in grey matter thickness and tissue contrast in the orbitofrontal cortex and parahippocampal gyrus; greater changes in...
www.nature.com
August 13, 2026 at 7:48 PM
How SARS-CoV-2 Damages the Brain
"SARS-CoV-2 is associated with changes in brain structure"
785 participants imaged before & after Covid infection showed gray matter loss, increased tissue damage markers, and reduced global brain size, even in mostly mild cases.
www.nature.com/articles/s4...
"SARS-CoV-2 is associated with changes in brain structure"
785 participants imaged before & after Covid infection showed gray matter loss, increased tissue damage markers, and reduced global brain size, even in mostly mild cases.
www.nature.com/articles/s4...
Here's a short list of studies regarding some of the impacts and prevalences in #LongCovidKids science.
If you have others, please add them.
If you have others, please add them.
March 5, 2026 at 7:15 PM
Here's a short list of studies regarding some of the impacts and prevalences in #LongCovidKids science.
If you have others, please add them.
If you have others, please add them.
We are suddenly awash in Long Covid trans narrative, have you noticed?
The nonprofit Long Covid Kids is targeting children with it in their new graphic novel series.
"Advocates and allies" are making public stmts citing high trans prevalences that simply do not exist.
Let's review the studies.
The nonprofit Long Covid Kids is targeting children with it in their new graphic novel series.
"Advocates and allies" are making public stmts citing high trans prevalences that simply do not exist.
Let's review the studies.
February 27, 2026 at 1:07 AM
We are suddenly awash in Long Covid trans narrative, have you noticed?
The nonprofit Long Covid Kids is targeting children with it in their new graphic novel series.
"Advocates and allies" are making public stmts citing high trans prevalences that simply do not exist.
Let's review the studies.
The nonprofit Long Covid Kids is targeting children with it in their new graphic novel series.
"Advocates and allies" are making public stmts citing high trans prevalences that simply do not exist.
Let's review the studies.
"Gender Identity vs. Long Covid" ???
Long Covid Kids, a UK nonprofit, publishes a graphic novel aimed at kids and teens called "Living With Long Covid, A Young Person's Guide".
Shows them making a choice between an appt for Long Covid, or an appt for Gender Identity. Guess which one wins.
Long Covid Kids, a UK nonprofit, publishes a graphic novel aimed at kids and teens called "Living With Long Covid, A Young Person's Guide".
Shows them making a choice between an appt for Long Covid, or an appt for Gender Identity. Guess which one wins.
February 25, 2026 at 11:41 PM
"Gender Identity vs. Long Covid" ???
Long Covid Kids, a UK nonprofit, publishes a graphic novel aimed at kids and teens called "Living With Long Covid, A Young Person's Guide".
Shows them making a choice between an appt for Long Covid, or an appt for Gender Identity. Guess which one wins.
Long Covid Kids, a UK nonprofit, publishes a graphic novel aimed at kids and teens called "Living With Long Covid, A Young Person's Guide".
Shows them making a choice between an appt for Long Covid, or an appt for Gender Identity. Guess which one wins.
"To misname something is to add to the misfortune of this world." -Camus
The naming of things is the ultimate power. Misnaming things is how wars of the mind, society, and science are won without bullets.
It's how ppl are deceived, and easily defeated, with their own thoughts.
The naming of things is the ultimate power. Misnaming things is how wars of the mind, society, and science are won without bullets.
It's how ppl are deceived, and easily defeated, with their own thoughts.
January 30, 2026 at 4:49 PM
"To misname something is to add to the misfortune of this world." -Camus
The naming of things is the ultimate power. Misnaming things is how wars of the mind, society, and science are won without bullets.
It's how ppl are deceived, and easily defeated, with their own thoughts.
The naming of things is the ultimate power. Misnaming things is how wars of the mind, society, and science are won without bullets.
It's how ppl are deceived, and easily defeated, with their own thoughts.
With her new study, Maureen Hanson proves that her 2021 study was meaningless, statistical noise.
Her new study shows no significant proteomic differences in healthy vs MECFS cohorts after exercise, but you'd never know it from the spin.
True to form: serious embellishments ↓
Her new study shows no significant proteomic differences in healthy vs MECFS cohorts after exercise, but you'd never know it from the spin.
True to form: serious embellishments ↓
December 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
With her new study, Maureen Hanson proves that her 2021 study was meaningless, statistical noise.
Her new study shows no significant proteomic differences in healthy vs MECFS cohorts after exercise, but you'd never know it from the spin.
True to form: serious embellishments ↓
Her new study shows no significant proteomic differences in healthy vs MECFS cohorts after exercise, but you'd never know it from the spin.
True to form: serious embellishments ↓
The Monetization, and Monopolization, of Chronic Illness Health Data
Visible @visible_health is an invasive app positioning itself between 100,000+ chronically ill patients' biometric and health+ data, and those who can purchase it for way less than well-defined purposes.
Visible @visible_health is an invasive app positioning itself between 100,000+ chronically ill patients' biometric and health+ data, and those who can purchase it for way less than well-defined purposes.
December 7, 2025 at 1:04 AM
The Monetization, and Monopolization, of Chronic Illness Health Data
Visible @visible_health is an invasive app positioning itself between 100,000+ chronically ill patients' biometric and health+ data, and those who can purchase it for way less than well-defined purposes.
Visible @visible_health is an invasive app positioning itself between 100,000+ chronically ill patients' biometric and health+ data, and those who can purchase it for way less than well-defined purposes.
Visible App publishes a marketing ploy posing as a study.
Conducted by @visible_health founders Harry Leeming & Luke Martin-Fuller, their employee & disinfo artist Rory Preston, and *very interested parties David Putrino, Abbey Sawyer, & Amy Proal.
My goodness.
Conducted by @visible_health founders Harry Leeming & Luke Martin-Fuller, their employee & disinfo artist Rory Preston, and *very interested parties David Putrino, Abbey Sawyer, & Amy Proal.
My goodness.
December 6, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Visible App publishes a marketing ploy posing as a study.
Conducted by @visible_health founders Harry Leeming & Luke Martin-Fuller, their employee & disinfo artist Rory Preston, and *very interested parties David Putrino, Abbey Sawyer, & Amy Proal.
My goodness.
Conducted by @visible_health founders Harry Leeming & Luke Martin-Fuller, their employee & disinfo artist Rory Preston, and *very interested parties David Putrino, Abbey Sawyer, & Amy Proal.
My goodness.
Very small, but tightly controlled, study found 89% of terminated fetuses →from mothers who had Covid during pregnancy← tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 RNA in various:
heart, brain, lung, ovary, testis, pancreas, thymus, stomach, liver, thyroid, adrenal, spleen, + more tissues.
heart, brain, lung, ovary, testis, pancreas, thymus, stomach, liver, thyroid, adrenal, spleen, + more tissues.
November 22, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Very small, but tightly controlled, study found 89% of terminated fetuses →from mothers who had Covid during pregnancy← tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 RNA in various:
heart, brain, lung, ovary, testis, pancreas, thymus, stomach, liver, thyroid, adrenal, spleen, + more tissues.
heart, brain, lung, ovary, testis, pancreas, thymus, stomach, liver, thyroid, adrenal, spleen, + more tissues.
This so-called economic cost of MECFS? 100% fraud.
More lies from Leonard Jason based on literal fiction by Lucinda Bateman. Zero facts.
MECFS con artists continue to steal crisis off the backs of disabled & dying ppl w/Long Covid. As usual.
Let's break down the scam. ↓
More lies from Leonard Jason based on literal fiction by Lucinda Bateman. Zero facts.
MECFS con artists continue to steal crisis off the backs of disabled & dying ppl w/Long Covid. As usual.
Let's break down the scam. ↓
November 15, 2025 at 1:24 PM
This so-called economic cost of MECFS? 100% fraud.
More lies from Leonard Jason based on literal fiction by Lucinda Bateman. Zero facts.
MECFS con artists continue to steal crisis off the backs of disabled & dying ppl w/Long Covid. As usual.
Let's break down the scam. ↓
More lies from Leonard Jason based on literal fiction by Lucinda Bateman. Zero facts.
MECFS con artists continue to steal crisis off the backs of disabled & dying ppl w/Long Covid. As usual.
Let's break down the scam. ↓
Another unreplicatable Pretorius study w/dubious claims.
Microclots & elevated NETs do not distinguish Long Covid from any other inflammatory condition (cancers, autoimmune diseases, diabetes, *etc, have them).
Pretorius & Co suggesting that these are a Long Covid biomarker/diagnostic is 😒.
Microclots & elevated NETs do not distinguish Long Covid from any other inflammatory condition (cancers, autoimmune diseases, diabetes, *etc, have them).
Pretorius & Co suggesting that these are a Long Covid biomarker/diagnostic is 😒.
November 11, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Another unreplicatable Pretorius study w/dubious claims.
Microclots & elevated NETs do not distinguish Long Covid from any other inflammatory condition (cancers, autoimmune diseases, diabetes, *etc, have them).
Pretorius & Co suggesting that these are a Long Covid biomarker/diagnostic is 😒.
Microclots & elevated NETs do not distinguish Long Covid from any other inflammatory condition (cancers, autoimmune diseases, diabetes, *etc, have them).
Pretorius & Co suggesting that these are a Long Covid biomarker/diagnostic is 😒.
Scientists have identified a potential new drug against COVID.
Compound 6 caused SARS-CoV-2 viral proteins to misfold, malfunction, and ultimately, be destroyed and removed by cells, in lab tests.
This work could benefit other viral diseases, too.
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021...
Compound 6 caused SARS-CoV-2 viral proteins to misfold, malfunction, and ultimately, be destroyed and removed by cells, in lab tests.
This work could benefit other viral diseases, too.
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021...
October 6, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Scientists have identified a potential new drug against COVID.
Compound 6 caused SARS-CoV-2 viral proteins to misfold, malfunction, and ultimately, be destroyed and removed by cells, in lab tests.
This work could benefit other viral diseases, too.
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021...
Compound 6 caused SARS-CoV-2 viral proteins to misfold, malfunction, and ultimately, be destroyed and removed by cells, in lab tests.
This work could benefit other viral diseases, too.
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021...
"We need accounts of long Covid, and plenty more of them.
But Will There Ever Be Another You feels amateurish, the literary equivalent of a Wes Anderson film: over-styled and perilously close to self-parody.
A delirious in-joke."
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/...
But Will There Ever Be Another You feels amateurish, the literary equivalent of a Wes Anderson film: over-styled and perilously close to self-parody.
A delirious in-joke."
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/...
Will There Ever Be Another You by Patricia Lockwood review – long Covid from the inside
The cult author’s autofictional follow-up to No One Is Talking About This is the story of a breakdown
www.theguardian.com
September 23, 2025 at 12:57 PM
"We need accounts of long Covid, and plenty more of them.
But Will There Ever Be Another You feels amateurish, the literary equivalent of a Wes Anderson film: over-styled and perilously close to self-parody.
A delirious in-joke."
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/...
But Will There Ever Be Another You feels amateurish, the literary equivalent of a Wes Anderson film: over-styled and perilously close to self-parody.
A delirious in-joke."
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/...
"More than half of those with Long Covid reported having periods that were heavier than usual for them."
Long covid may be making your periods longer and heavier.
www.newscientist.com/article/249...
Long covid may be making your periods longer and heavier.
www.newscientist.com/article/249...
Long covid may be making your periods longer and heavier
Half a decade since the arrival of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, we're still learning about its complications, with the latest research suggesting that long covid may disrupt menstrual periods
www.newscientist.com
September 18, 2025 at 1:33 PM
"More than half of those with Long Covid reported having periods that were heavier than usual for them."
Long covid may be making your periods longer and heavier.
www.newscientist.com/article/249...
Long covid may be making your periods longer and heavier.
www.newscientist.com/article/249...
Are you looking forward to the "Keystone Symposia on Long Covid and other Post Acute Infection Syndromes"?
Sponsors & Schedule ↓🧵
Sponsors & Schedule ↓🧵
August 10, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Are you looking forward to the "Keystone Symposia on Long Covid and other Post Acute Infection Syndromes"?
Sponsors & Schedule ↓🧵
Sponsors & Schedule ↓🧵
Study suggests AS01 vaccine adjuvant, rather than infection prevention, drives dementia protective effect
* No significant difference in dementia risk between RSV and shingles vaccines
* Combining both vaccines didn't provide additional benefit beyond a single vaccine
* No significant difference in dementia risk between RSV and shingles vaccines
* Combining both vaccines didn't provide additional benefit beyond a single vaccine
July 21, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Study suggests AS01 vaccine adjuvant, rather than infection prevention, drives dementia protective effect
* No significant difference in dementia risk between RSV and shingles vaccines
* Combining both vaccines didn't provide additional benefit beyond a single vaccine
* No significant difference in dementia risk between RSV and shingles vaccines
* Combining both vaccines didn't provide additional benefit beyond a single vaccine
Post-Covid Autoimmune Encephalitis (AE)
• AE more severe > Covid vs no Covid (CASE score: 8 vs 5)
• 17% more pneumonia & 14% increase in other autoimmune diseases
• AE relapse > Covid = more autoimmune diseases, tumors, abnormal cranial MRIs, and higher disability levels
• AE more severe > Covid vs no Covid (CASE score: 8 vs 5)
• 17% more pneumonia & 14% increase in other autoimmune diseases
• AE relapse > Covid = more autoimmune diseases, tumors, abnormal cranial MRIs, and higher disability levels
July 21, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Post-Covid Autoimmune Encephalitis (AE)
• AE more severe > Covid vs no Covid (CASE score: 8 vs 5)
• 17% more pneumonia & 14% increase in other autoimmune diseases
• AE relapse > Covid = more autoimmune diseases, tumors, abnormal cranial MRIs, and higher disability levels
• AE more severe > Covid vs no Covid (CASE score: 8 vs 5)
• 17% more pneumonia & 14% increase in other autoimmune diseases
• AE relapse > Covid = more autoimmune diseases, tumors, abnormal cranial MRIs, and higher disability levels
SARS-CoV-2 induces Alzheimer’s–related amyloid-𝛃 pathology in ex vivo human retinal explants & retinal organoids
Very small study found:
· Postmortem retinal tissue showed increased amyloid-β plaques compared to controls
· Some amyloid-β plaques contained Spike protein
Very small study found:
· Postmortem retinal tissue showed increased amyloid-β plaques compared to controls
· Some amyloid-β plaques contained Spike protein
July 17, 2025 at 1:06 AM
SARS-CoV-2 induces Alzheimer’s–related amyloid-𝛃 pathology in ex vivo human retinal explants & retinal organoids
Very small study found:
· Postmortem retinal tissue showed increased amyloid-β plaques compared to controls
· Some amyloid-β plaques contained Spike protein
Very small study found:
· Postmortem retinal tissue showed increased amyloid-β plaques compared to controls
· Some amyloid-β plaques contained Spike protein
"How Pandemics Reshape Our Brain" a shameless MECFS FUNDRAISER posing as research. By Mary E. Herman.
🚩 Uses Long Covid to dishonestly inflate ME numbers
🚩 Takes LC research & misapplies it retroactively to ME
🚩 Reduces pwLC to a validation tool for predatory MECFS agendas
🚩 Uses Long Covid to dishonestly inflate ME numbers
🚩 Takes LC research & misapplies it retroactively to ME
🚩 Reduces pwLC to a validation tool for predatory MECFS agendas
July 16, 2025 at 6:56 PM
"How Pandemics Reshape Our Brain" a shameless MECFS FUNDRAISER posing as research. By Mary E. Herman.
🚩 Uses Long Covid to dishonestly inflate ME numbers
🚩 Takes LC research & misapplies it retroactively to ME
🚩 Reduces pwLC to a validation tool for predatory MECFS agendas
🚩 Uses Long Covid to dishonestly inflate ME numbers
🚩 Takes LC research & misapplies it retroactively to ME
🚩 Reduces pwLC to a validation tool for predatory MECFS agendas
Another shit Long Covid study 😩
· 46% had pre-existing conditions before LC
· 20% had pre-existing mental and behavioral disorders
· 36% were on cognitive-affecting medications: benzos, antidepressants, neuroleptics, anxiolytics, soporific, etc.
The researchers admit...
· 46% had pre-existing conditions before LC
· 20% had pre-existing mental and behavioral disorders
· 36% were on cognitive-affecting medications: benzos, antidepressants, neuroleptics, anxiolytics, soporific, etc.
The researchers admit...
July 13, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Another shit Long Covid study 😩
· 46% had pre-existing conditions before LC
· 20% had pre-existing mental and behavioral disorders
· 36% were on cognitive-affecting medications: benzos, antidepressants, neuroleptics, anxiolytics, soporific, etc.
The researchers admit...
· 46% had pre-existing conditions before LC
· 20% had pre-existing mental and behavioral disorders
· 36% were on cognitive-affecting medications: benzos, antidepressants, neuroleptics, anxiolytics, soporific, etc.
The researchers admit...
Study finds that ppl w/Long Covid have different neurochemistry than ppl w/MECFS
Authors posit that studies should not mix pwLC & pwME in cohorts, but they may have
Findings suggest the underlying neurobiological mechanisms of Long Covid & MECFS are different
But... ↓
Authors posit that studies should not mix pwLC & pwME in cohorts, but they may have
Findings suggest the underlying neurobiological mechanisms of Long Covid & MECFS are different
But... ↓
July 13, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Study finds that ppl w/Long Covid have different neurochemistry than ppl w/MECFS
Authors posit that studies should not mix pwLC & pwME in cohorts, but they may have
Findings suggest the underlying neurobiological mechanisms of Long Covid & MECFS are different
But... ↓
Authors posit that studies should not mix pwLC & pwME in cohorts, but they may have
Findings suggest the underlying neurobiological mechanisms of Long Covid & MECFS are different
But... ↓
🚮 MECFS Mafia LongCovid study
*Self-Report w/o validation
*Lack of proper controls
*Sample selection bias
*Confounding variables
*Inadequate sample sizes
*Statistical fishing
*Subjective scale w/o validated psychometric properties
*Overstated findings
*No clinical/safety data
*Self-Report w/o validation
*Lack of proper controls
*Sample selection bias
*Confounding variables
*Inadequate sample sizes
*Statistical fishing
*Subjective scale w/o validated psychometric properties
*Overstated findings
*No clinical/safety data
July 11, 2025 at 1:41 PM
🚮 MECFS Mafia LongCovid study
*Self-Report w/o validation
*Lack of proper controls
*Sample selection bias
*Confounding variables
*Inadequate sample sizes
*Statistical fishing
*Subjective scale w/o validated psychometric properties
*Overstated findings
*No clinical/safety data
*Self-Report w/o validation
*Lack of proper controls
*Sample selection bias
*Confounding variables
*Inadequate sample sizes
*Statistical fishing
*Subjective scale w/o validated psychometric properties
*Overstated findings
*No clinical/safety data
Groundbreaking research provides definitive evidence that humans can grow new brain cells up to age 78.
Using advanced single-nucleus RNA sequencing and machine learning algorithms, researchers identified proliferating neural progenitor cells in the hippocampus.
Using advanced single-nucleus RNA sequencing and machine learning algorithms, researchers identified proliferating neural progenitor cells in the hippocampus.
July 5, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Groundbreaking research provides definitive evidence that humans can grow new brain cells up to age 78.
Using advanced single-nucleus RNA sequencing and machine learning algorithms, researchers identified proliferating neural progenitor cells in the hippocampus.
Using advanced single-nucleus RNA sequencing and machine learning algorithms, researchers identified proliferating neural progenitor cells in the hippocampus.
Reposted by ⋆⁺₊ Alba ࿐ iteotwawki
Paper outlines Variant-Specific Long Covid
Alpha/Beta: lower CNS penetration
Delta: Moderate-high CNS entry, affects astrocytes & pericytes
Omicron: Lower direct neuroinvasion but significant indirect inflammatory effects
D614G: High neurovirulence, strong inflammatory reply
Alpha/Beta: lower CNS penetration
Delta: Moderate-high CNS entry, affects astrocytes & pericytes
Omicron: Lower direct neuroinvasion but significant indirect inflammatory effects
D614G: High neurovirulence, strong inflammatory reply
June 28, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Paper outlines Variant-Specific Long Covid
Alpha/Beta: lower CNS penetration
Delta: Moderate-high CNS entry, affects astrocytes & pericytes
Omicron: Lower direct neuroinvasion but significant indirect inflammatory effects
D614G: High neurovirulence, strong inflammatory reply
Alpha/Beta: lower CNS penetration
Delta: Moderate-high CNS entry, affects astrocytes & pericytes
Omicron: Lower direct neuroinvasion but significant indirect inflammatory effects
D614G: High neurovirulence, strong inflammatory reply
Reposted by ⋆⁺₊ Alba ࿐ iteotwawki
"There is an urgent need to monitor affected individuals [ppl w/LongCovid] longitudinally for increased risk of conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease or Parkinsonian syndromes."
June 28, 2025 at 3:08 PM
"There is an urgent need to monitor affected individuals [ppl w/LongCovid] longitudinally for increased risk of conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease or Parkinsonian syndromes."