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CATA (Covid Airborne Transmission Alliance) has today issued this press release ahead of next Thursday's publication of the Inquiry's module 3 report:
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Everything has changed ... except the claims of the fossil fuel lobbyists who infest politics and the media.
www.ise.fraunhofer.de/en/press-med...
Black poster with white and bright pink text. At the top is the WHN logo text: “whn.global”. Large white text in the center reads: “COVID infections are not harmless.” Below, in bright pink text: “COVID-19 infections may cause cumulative harm. Long-term effects from infection are known as Long COVID.” At the bottom, in white text: “World Health Network - Science for a safer, healthier world.”
COVID infections are not harmless. Research shows that initial and repeated COVID-19 infections can increase the risk of long-term health problems affecting multiple organ systems. Preventing infection and reinfection helps reduce these risks.
#COVID #LongCOVID #InfectionPrevention #PublicHealth
We cannot stay silent about this as to do so is to be complicit in the illogical & amoral approach of facilitating brain damage as part of the learning experience.
“37 % of the undergraduates exhibited impaired cognition up to 17 months post-infection.”
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How much more evidence do we need? The ultra-rich and the governments supporting them will destroy everything for the sake of profit, power and pride. Nothing is precious to them - not human life, not the living world - except their own wealth and status. Our survival depends on resisting them.
It doesn’t matter whether the rate of global warming is increasing. It’ll never cease to amaze me that people don’t care that it’s happening at all. It should be the most alarming thing ever.
Graphic with a dark blue and teal gradient background. Main text: “March 1-31: Long Covid Awareness Month.” There is a Long Covid ribbon beside the main text. Below are one white figure and eight teal figures. The text underneath this reads: “1 in 9 adults in Canada experience Long Covid after a Covid-19 infection.” To the left is a graphic split into four sections, two by two, each showing a different focus for Long Covid Awareness Month. Top left: A graphic highlighting cardiovascular risks of Covid infections. It reads: “Covid can damage your heart. Wearing an N95 mask helps protect you.” The caption with this section reads: Special focus on cardiovascular effects. Top right: A photo from our 2025 International Long Covid Awareness Day event in Quebec City, where pillowcases with patient stories were laid out for the public to view. The caption with this section reads: International Long Covid Awareness Day Events. Bottom left: A photo of the Vancouver Olympic Cauldron lit in teal-blue for International Long Covid Awareness Day 2025. The caption with this section reads: Lightings across Canada. Bottom right: A photo of a person’s hand holding a phone, on which an interview is playing. Shown are Long Covid researcher Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly, who is being interviewed by Dr. Susan Kuo, a family physician in B.C., and a Canadian Covid Society volunteer.
Join us as we spread awareness and support the Long Covid community throughout March. We’ve planned events, a live webinar on disability benefits applications, interviews with experts, lightings of buildings, landmarks and signs, and much more.
#LongCovid #ILCAD2026 #LongCovidAwareness
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“There were several occasions when Gemini reminded Gavalas that it was a large language model—effectively an appliance—engaging in fictitious role play, according to the transcripts, but the scenario resumed. Gemini also, at times, tried to end the conversation. The chatbot said that for them to truly be together, it needed a robotic body. Throughout September, the chatbot devised missions to do just that, according to the lawsuit. It sent Gavalas to a storage facility near the Miami International Airport to intercept an expensive humanoid robot that it said would be in a truck. Gavalas told the bot that he went to the location, armed with knives, but the truck never showed. Along the way, it suggested that federal agents were monitoring him and that his own father couldn’t be trusted”
Helps you code though, so hard to tell if it’s good or bad.
Scientific American has updated the figure, now grouped into swimmers, fliers, walkers/runners, and vehicles. A person on a bicycle remains the most efficient way to travel, compared to all forms of biological locomotion and mechanical transport.
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This completely misunderstands the research process including the point of doing literature reviews. Claude’s “analysis” treats research as paint by numbers regurgitation of pre-existing work.
Kustov & folks who share these views need to give up their jobs in favor of those who want to research.
Screenshot of an article dated March 3, 2026 titled “‘Mini hearts’ show COVID-19 virus directly infects heart tissue” by the Centenary Institute. Below the headline are four labeled microscope images (A–D) showing laboratory-grown heart tissue (“mini hearts”). The images use fluorescent colors—green, yellow, red, and white—to highlight cells and viral infection patterns, illustrating how SARS-CoV-2 can infect and spread through heart muscle cells in the tissue samples.
COVID-19 can directly infect heart tissue.
Researchers at the Centenary Institute and UTS created a human heart cell model showing SARS-CoV-2 can directly infect heart tissue, helping explain why some people develop serious heart complications during and after COVID-19 infection.
Dear Prime Minister Carney, We write to you out of deep concern regarding passage of Alberta’s Health Statutes Amendment Act, 2025 (No. 2), and the threat it poses not only to Alberta’s public health care system, but to the integrity of Medicare across Canada. Canadians understand that provincial health systems are under genuine strain. We all share the goals of reducing wait times to improve access to timely care and of recruiting and retaining health care workers. We know that protecting and improving Medicare to enable healthy populations is a vital nation building project. However, Alberta’s Health Statutes Amendment Act, 2025 (No. 2) risks undermining these goals. Instead, it proposes a system where patients face financial uncertainty and where timely access to care will inevitably depend on ability to pay. Alberta’s law abandons the foundational principles on which Canada’s health care system has been built, as enshrined in the Canada Health Act. By formally enabling physicians to accept both public and private payment (dual practice) and allowing patients to be billed for medically-necessary services, this legislation enables a multi- payer, two-tier system of care that is confusing, inefficient, unfair, and expensive. This shift is unprecedented in Canada. Since 1984, when the Canada Health Act was passed, Alberta, like all provinces and territories, has upheld a single-payer model grounded in equitable access to medically necessary care based on need, not ability to pay. The Health Statutes Amendment Act, 2025 (No. 2) represents a clear departure from that shared national commitment and raises grave concerns about Alberta’s compliance with the Canada Health Act.
We are deeply concerned that Alberta’s Health Statutes Amendment Act, 2025 (No. 2) will: • Undermine equity by normalizing private payment for medically necessary care, privileging those with financial means; • Risk contravening the Canada Health Act which exists to protect universality and accessibility; • Exacerbate workforce shortages in the publicly-funded system by permitting physicians to split their practice between public pay and private pay sectors; • Set a dangerous national precedent inviting similar legislation in other provinces thereby weakening Medicare across the country. Beyond its domestic impacts, Alberta’s Health Statutes Amendment Act, 2025 (No. 2) raises uncertainty related to national treatment and market access obligations under the current CUSMA. If Alberta’s legislation opens a pathway to private duplicative insurance (covering the same medically necessary services as the publicly funded system) and for-profit investor-ownership of hospitals (delivering medically necessary care), we are concerned this could lead to US health insurance companies and hospital corporations expecting to enter Canada’s market. Notwithstanding the protections afforded by Canada’s sectoral reservations listed in CUSMA related to health care, if the US were denied entry to Canada’s market, we are concerned this could expose Canada to CUSMA’s investment and services disciplines. As Prime Minister, you have a responsibility to uphold the Canada Health Act and protect equitable access to care for all Canadians, regardless of jurisdiction. We therefore call on your government to: 1. Conduct a formal Canada Health Act compliance review of Alberta’s Health Statutes Amendment Act, 2025 (No. 2); 2. Urge the Government of Alberta to pause implementation of Health Statutes Amendment Act, 2025 (No. 2) while its impacts are assessed by Health Canada’s legal team and independent national experts; 3. Use the full range of federal tools available, including discretionary penaltie…
Yours sincerely, Dr. Melanie Bechard Chair, Canadian Doctors for Medicare Signed and endorsed by: Alberta Federation of Labour – Gil McGowan, President Alberta Union of Provincial Employees – Sandra Azocar, President BC Health Coalition – Ayendri Riddell, Director of Policy and Campaigns Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives – Peggy Nash, Executive Director Canadian Federation of Medical Students – Bryce Bogie, President Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions – Linda Silas, President Canadian Health Coalition – Jason MacLean, Chair Canadian Labour Congress – Bea Bruske, President Canadian Union of Public Employees – Mark Hancock, President Coalition Solidarité Santé – Geneviève Lamarche, coordonnatrice Congress of Union Retirees of Canada - Michael MacIsaac, President Friends of Medicare – Chris Gallaway, Executive Director Independent Voices for Safe & Effective Drugs – Colleen Fuller, Director Manitoba Health Coalition – Noah Schulz, Provincial Director Médecins québécois pour le régime public – Dr. Xavier Gauvreau, Président National Union of Public and General Employees – Bert Blundon, President New Brunswick Health Coalition – Jean-Claude Basque, Co-Chair Nova Scotia Health Coalition – Jennifer Benoit, Provincial Coordinator Ontario Health Coalition – Natalie Mehra, Executive Director PEI Health Coalition – Mary Boyd, Chair Registered Nurses Association of Ontario – Dr. Doris Grinspun, Chief Executive Officer United Nurses of Alberta – Heather Smith, President United Steelworkers – Marty Warren, National Director
🚨 Today: Canadian Doctors for Medicare sent a letter to PM Carney expressing deep concern about Alberta's law allowing patients to be billed for essential health care.
This policy endangers the integrity of Medicare for everyone across Canada.
@cdndrsformedicare.bsky.social #cdnpoli #cdnhealth 🧵
In honour of Long Covid Awareness Month, here are 2 asks for fellow Blueskyers
1. Wear an N95 in public to reduce transmission & in solidarity with the millions living with Long Covid
2. Please stand up to large accounts that minimize this illness & who dunk on disabled folks
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Any government day of mourning re: COVID is 🤬 pandering because they ('leaders' & public health) are doing next to nothing to prevent more COVID disability & death.
As a Long COVID survivor, I experience ZERO support from the ON PCs or Public Health.
Minimal support from doctors WHEN I INSIST.
Thank you @cancovsoc.bsky.social for your continued advocacy and support of those suffering with COVID.
As an organization, you have done more for me than any other publicly funded group in Canada.
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This accommodations letter has helped me a lot 🙌🙌
Letter of the day: let's clear the air on respiratory infections -Montreal Gazette montrealgazette.com/opinion/lett... via @mtlgazette
text says "There’s no way to know which COVID-19 infection will cause long-term illness. Each new COVID-19 infection increases your risk of organ damage, Long COVID, and disability, even if you have no other health conditions that you know of, and even if your previous COVID-19 infections were mild or had no symptoms. Protect your lifelong health by protecting yourself from COVID-19, no matter your age or health history. Wear masks. get vaccinated. keep indoor air clean.” Graphics on the side illustrate people getting sick repeatedly until eventually they end up with long-term illness.
Every time you get COVID-19, your risk increases for Long COVID, organ damage, disability, & more, & there’s no way to know which infection will be the one to cause it! Protect your lifelong health by protecting yourself from COVID-19. Learn more about Long COVID: www.cdc.gov/long-covid/a...
I REALLY hope this can be replicated in humans. A trial in mice showed that a nasal vaccine targeting multiple respiratory pathogens including COVID-19 worked really well - enabling development of protective Immunity in the lung for 3 months (the duration of testing) 🧪
AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations
Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases
www.newscientist.com/article/2516...
Chronic ocean heating is causing a “staggering and deeply concerning” loss of marine life, a new study of over 33,000 populations has found
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
I can’t breach confidentiality… but I think I can say this much.
I am blown away by the change I am seeing in people’s health in the clinical setting… since C19. It’s not subtle. It’s like one of those paintings with every bright colour thrown on it.
It is very sad.
Paris court holds historic climate trial against TotalEnergies insideclimatenews.org/news/1902202...
World Health Organization European Region WHO/Europe • @WHO _....12h X Long COVID hasn't disappeared.
No.
And do you know why?
Because COVID-19 hasn’t disappeared either.
It’s chewing us slowly like gum until we run out of flavour.
And yet I see meeting after meeting with no masks being worn, except the entirely transparent mask of “normality”.
The FDA has reversed course and will now review Moderna’s new flu vaccine.
Last week, professional agitator Vinay Prasad overrode FDA scientists and sent a letter saying that the FDA would not review it.
They are mentioning ventilation.
#CleantheAir
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All of them
The American Academy of Actuaries warns that dismantling NCAR would degrade the catastrophe models insurers depend on to price climate risk—driving up premiums and threatening coverage availability nationwide.
"Uncertainty carries a positive cost."
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r/analytics u/Comfortable_Box_4527 • 10h We just found out our Al has been making up analytics data for 3 months and I'm gonna throw up. Support So we've been using an Al agent since November to answer leadership questions about metrics. It seemed amazing at first fast answers, detailed explanations, everyone loved it. I just found out it's been hallucinating numbers this entire time. Our VP of sales made territory decisions based on data that didn't exist. Our CFO showed the board a deck with fake insights. The Al was just inventing plausible sounding percentages. I only caught it by accident when someone asked me to double check something. I started digging, and holy shit, it's bad.
Obvious caveats apply for something off Reddit, but this is at least a plausible thing to happen. I have a feeling we’ll see more, better documented cases that executives want to keep quiet bubble out if the business press over the next year.
My goal is to ensure all educators and students are better trained to recognize real airborne health & safety threats in all schools, and learn how to prevent airborne pathogen infection.
I teach this to my students. Now, I am trying to ensure all educators learn about this as well.
#BlindersOff