Dame Sa

Dame Sa

@damesa.bsky.social

Long Covid sufferer since 2020. #FBLC Will mostly be banging on about #Covid and #LongCovid and criticising governments for their diabolical public health policies. #CleanAir https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700304

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I suffered organ damage & long-term health issues from Covid. People be like: IT’S VACCINES! 👉 I got Covid in March 2020. Pre-vaccines. 👉 YOU WERE OLD OR SICK! I was 39, fit & healthy. (Not that it should matter.) 👉 IT’S RARE! Over 100 million worldwide. That we know about. So far. #LongCovid

“Children are increasingly starting primary school struggling to talk” Well it can’t be lockdowns - many of the kids that started school last September weren’t even born! So can we start addressing the elephant in the room: Covid brain damage. #LongCovidKids www.independent.co.uk/news/educati...

independent.co.ukChildren are starting primary school struggling to communicate, teachers have warnedWarnings over declining language skills come as early years organisations publish list of things a child should be able to do before they start reception

‪“12 months after SARS-CoV-2 infection, around 7 % of children and young people report ‘brain fog’ i.e., cognitive impairment.”‬ ‪#LongCovidKids‬ ‪https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0889159124003891‬

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Pharmacy Times: 'New Research Sheds Light on Link Between Leukocyte Count and Long COVID Symptom Severity' New research findings, published in Menopause, shed light into the mechanisms behind the sustained COVID symptoms many patients experience in..long COVID www.pharmacytimes.com/view/new-res...

pharmacytimes.comNew Research Sheds Light on Link Between Leukocyte Count and Long COVID Symptom SeverityIn older postmenopausal women, leukocyte count was found to be an independent predictor of long COVID symptom severity, highlighting its potential for use as a novel symptom biomarker.

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Cardiologists seeing more cases of POTS since the start of the COVID-19 Pandemic. "Dr Hong said the condition can be debilitating, with symptoms like dizziness, fainting, brain fog, shortness of breath and even gastrointestinal issues."

wzzm13.comCardiologists seeing more cases of POTS since the start of the COVID-19 PandemicPOTS is a condition that disrupts the body's ability to regulate blood flow while changing positions. Dr. Charles Hong says they have seen a sharp rise since COVID.

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It’s Long Covid Awareness Week, and we need governments to make long Covid a priority. So we’re asking YOU to send a letter to your federal and provincial/territorial representatives, urging them to fund long Covid awareness, research, and support. #ILCAD2025 #LongCovidAwarenessDay 1/2

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MPR News: Osterholm predicted a pandemic for years. Then the battle against COVID-19 became personal 'So many people simultaneously experiencing long COVID, Osterholm said..new effort being made to understand these immune system responses that are just out of whack" www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0...

mprnews.orgOsterholm predicted a pandemic for years. Then the battle against COVID-19 became personalFive years ago, news of a fast-spreading respiratory virus was making headlines in the United States. In Minnesota, public health expert Michael Osterholm was keeping close tabs.

‘They got COVID-19 five years ago, and they don’t know why they’re still sick' Gansler, an academic advisor at Michigan State University: “I struggled to find support in the medical community, and I had to do a lot of my own research." #LongCovid www.mlive.com/news/2025/03...

mlive.comThey got COVID-19 five years ago, and they don’t know why they’re still sickTwo long-haulers share insights on managing post-COVID conditions, emphasizing gradual improvement and self-care strategies.

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Michigan Live: 'They got COVID-19 five years ago, and they don’t know why they’re still sick' Gansler, an academic advisor at Michigan State University: “I struggled to find support in the medical community, and I had to do a lot of my own research." www.mlive.com/news/2025/03...

mlive.comThey got COVID-19 five years ago, and they don’t know why they’re still sickTwo long-haulers share insights on managing post-COVID conditions, emphasizing gradual improvement and self-care strategies.

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The demand for the measles vaccine is so high in Texas that they are now RUNNING OUT of them. I have always said it would come to this. Science will always exist. Politics will never usurp it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

theguardian.comTexas cities run short of MMR vaccine as measles outbreak drives demandPharmacies are struggling with supplies as fatal outbreak expands and health secretary sows disinformation

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More Measles Maryland reports a new case linked to international travel—not connected to the Texas/New Mexico outbreak. Potential exposures: - Dulles International Airport (arrivals baggage claim) - Johns Hopkins Howard County Pediatric ER health.maryland.gov/newsroom/Pag...

Infectious Diseases@infectiousdz.bsky.social

More measles. Florida has joined the chat 1 Student, Miami Palmetto Senior High School in Pinecrest Meanwhile, Texas alone has 163 cases, including 4 outside West Texas -2 Harris -1 Rockwall -1 Austin, Travis - infant, intl travel www.wdhn.com/news/first-f... www.dshs.texas.gov/news-alerts/...

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Happy International Women's Day especially to the amazing women in the Long Covid and chronic illness community. A special thought for the patient advocates/researchers who are doing so much heavy lifting for LC recognition, sometimes with little help or recognition. Thanks 🌸

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To the men who spent today mansplaining, harassing & talking down to me… thanks for showing us WHY we still need an International Women’s Day. If you’re coming into the posts of women sharing their experiences & advocating for equality just to demean and agitate… you’re 100% part of the problem.

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Kids keep getting sicker as evidence for COVID immune damage builds “As the press pushes "immunity debt" past the breaking point of believability, are parents ready to wake up to the illness crisis?”

thegauntlet.newsKids keep getting sicker as evidence for COVID immune damage buildsAs the press pushes "immunity debt" past the breaking point of believability, are parents ready to wake up to the illness crisis?

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Disabled women are more likely to experience abuse than their non disabled peers We’re often trapped with caregivers who treat us badly & lack the support to leave Many disability benefits are cut if you marry, forcing dependence We need a universal basic income so we can have autonomy #IWD2025

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There will be increasing US propaganda aimed at Canada. Media will be complicit in normalizing it. Secret fentanyl labs, porous border that threatens security, etc. Bet on it. And a lot of Americans will eat it up. This has been the American playbook for decades.

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Sleepwalking into yet another pandemic. Alliances and treaties falling apart as superpowers go fully rogue. Landmines coming back. Everyone saying the world needs more nukes in it. Inaction on worsening climate change. Aiding and abetting genocide. This millennium sucks.

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Timeline cleanse. I wish this kind of #generosity were not necesssary. Healthcare is a human right. Still it is beautiful to see this. The community pays back a #Baltimore legend. ❤️‍🩹 #MedSky #OncSky #kcsm #crcsm #kindness #BlackMenInMedicine www.cbsnews.com/news/beloved...

cbsnews.comFor decades, a doctor refused to charge patients who couldn't pay. When he couldn't pay, his patients came to his aid.When Dr. Michael Zollicoffer was diagnosed with two types of cancer, his patients started a crowdfunding campaign that raised more than $100,000.

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ABC 7 New York: 'COVID Impact: 5 years later' 'Researchers don't have all the answers to that, Hsu said. But large numbers of people - many of them previously young, active and healthy - "are now effectively disabled because of long COVID."' abc7ny.com/post/covid-1...

abc7ny.comCOVID Impact: 5 years laterWe invite you to watch an Eyewitness News special, COVID Impact: 5 Years Later, this Wednesday at 5:30 p.m., as we examine how the virus has changed our lives and continues to impact us.

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People *may* be starting to wake up to how covid damages immunity: The same guy who mockingly asked me a year ago, "So how long are you going to keep wearing that mask?" just said yesterday, "All the kids are sick all the time." He didn't say anything about my mask, but his eyes lingered on it.

🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦@jvipondmd.bsky.social

"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."