Warning! Subheadings interspersed with my snarky comments-yeah I am angry about covid/vaccine misinfo

Sanctioned for Misinformation, This Doctor Keeps Spreading It
Roger Hodkinson admitted to professional misconduct. But persists in broadcasting falsities about vaccines.

Case shows problems with doctors self-regulating: expert -Oh I'm sure like police self-regulating it's fine!

Danielle Smith platformed Hodkinson’s views --No! Surely it can't be true!

Doctor’s legal funding flowed from charity--You will never guess what one! We need to change the definition of a charity

What Hodkinson could next face- Watch anti-vax Smith protect his freedom of speech!

#Covid #Charity #Legal #Canada
#Health #Misinformation #Vaccines

https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/05/19/Sanctioned-Misinformation-Doctor-Keeps-Spreading-It/

"A federal judge on Friday indefinitely blocked the Trump administration from pulling back more than $11 billion in public health funding from state and local health departments."

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5304639-federal-judge-extends-block-on-hhs-termination-of-billions-in-public-health-funds/

I'm stoked to be returning to "Hacker Summer Camp" this August As such, I've just published my latest blog on how I avoid COVID/ConFlu while traveling.

In the post I've included a number of tips and tricks (backed by science!), which I've been personally "field testing" with great success You can read the post, titled: "Surviving the Pan-decade: How to avoid COVID/ConFlu while traveling" at the link below:

https://securing.dev/posts/avoiding-covid-while-traveling/

Many thanks to @violetblue for reviewing this post and providing insights, suggestions, and feedback

#Covid Question:

Has anyone read research papers suggesting there is the possibility of an increase in the number of and severity of symptoms of seizures in a patient with a history of same, post covid infection(s)?

Thanks for boosting.

If you are watching #FDA and how it plans to handle #Covid vaccines going forward, you should know about this political appointee in the commissioner's office. https://www.statnews.com/2025/05/19/tracy-beth-hoeg-fda-advisor-marty-makary-vinay-prasad-vaccine-policy/

Ce matin c'était test PCR parce que ça dure trop longtemps pour juste être l'attaque de mes allergies.

Comme il faut une ordonnance depuis le premier mars pour que ce soit remboursé et que mon assurance habitation a un partenariat avec un service de teleconsultation 7j/7 H24 j'ai appelé pour en avoir une.

Le médecin s'est montré très dédaigneux. "Je vois pas ce que ça va changer pour vous. Ça pourrait être n'importe quel rhume en plus vous me dites que vous avez des allergies..." Mais j'ai insisté et il l'a quand même faite à contre cœur.

Ce matin au labo, le gars qui fait le prélèvement confirme mes infos, voit que c'est noté COVID et lâche "Boah ça traîne plus trop ça. Il faut y aller pour l'avoir."

Les gens qui bossez dans le médical, pourquoi vous êtes toujours cons comme ça en fait ?

"Their approach to immunization policy is less extreme, more engaged with evidence, and more academic than Kennedy’s. And precisely because these officials’ perspectives carry a sheen of legitimacy that most of the secretary’s usual allies lack, they could be more effective than Kennedy at undermining America’s protections against disease."
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/05/hhs-anti-vax/682831/

"Are you Homebound from Long COVID? Do you live within 30 min from Boston?"
https://rally.massgeneralbrigham.org/study/lc_home_visit

Great to see opportunities like this. Biological signals may be stronger in dose severely affected

Image taken from Mass ME/CFS & FM Assoc May newsletter
https://massme.monkeypod.io/mailcoach/webview/campaign/3a5f630a-6393-404c-8836-4d7f3f9be9da

@longcovid
#LongCovid #PASC #PwLC #postcovid #postcovid19 #LC #Covidlonghaulers #PostCovidSyndrome #longhaulers #COVIDBrain #NeuroPASC

@covid19 #Coronavirus
#COVID19 #COVID #COVID_19 #COVIDー19 #SARSCoV2

If you don't follow #vaccines, this may not seem too bad, but it's a clear sign that the #antivaxxers like #RFKJr are calling the shots at #FDA, because as others (like @luckytran) have explained, there's really no scientific basis for the restrictions on who can get this new #COVID shot. https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19vaccine/115638?xid=nl_mpt_DHE_2025-05-18&mh=94a3ffbf5efe5196113f4b100e6cb951&zdee=gAAAAABoE23NTssIYTtSXY1LNnohGJaXAfxVFk3sLQUV_-a3Jg6H4sLYZSzhHq472hWcUyzpLu_H7KI5XGZij861NIwwo4RTcZ3VS4TgbTYGcKYWEoniicQ%3D

Raina McIntyre:
Unicef estimates that in the absence of a vaccine, the world would have seen 5 million deaths due to smallpox every year in the mid-1990s. I am sure anti-vaccine groups would be raging against the statistic that smallpox vaccines, by achieving eradication, has prevented over 190 million deaths since 1980.

Without vaccines, we would see a rise in vaccine-preventable diseases like measles, polio, meningitis and so on, and a rise in infant mortality as a result. Until about 20 years ago, infectious diseases were among the leading causes of death in the world. We may see previously rare infectious diseases climb again to become a top cause of death in the world. Covid and lower respiratory infections are already in the top 10.

#health #healthcare #Australia #covid #covid19 #GetVaccinated #GetBoosted #vaccines #disabled #disability #LongCovid #H5N1 #pandemic

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/may/19/junk-science-vaccine-refusers-and-the-return-of-smallpox-what-worries-one-of-australias-top-epidemiologists

Study of Long Covid

https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2025/05/15/Long-COVID-patients-show-altered-levels-key-brain-chemicals-study-finds/2651747072883/

“This is a dark day in American medicine." Under #RFKJr, the #FDA begins limiting access to #COVID #vaccines. https://archive.is/JyIma

The world’s response to Covid when it first appeared showed us that humanity could feed and house everyone, if we wanted to. We have the resources for everyone.

We could give medical care to everyone, if we wanted to. We could rapidly focus efforts on cures and treatments, and accelerate changes that would protect and help everyone, if we wanted.

We could protect each other with simple actions like wearing a mask.

The survival of our species doesn’t depend on everyone getting what they need, unfortunately. It doesn’t rely on compassion or empathy or kindness.

We consider ourselves elevated over other animals because we have the ability to discern and choose these things, and the ability to enact them on a large scale. But as always, actions speak louder than words. We instead as a species have been choosing to prove our place as beneath deserving this world.

The planet is responding accordingly.

2022 May 18 - 1,000,000 Americans Dead From Covid 19

2025 May 18 - 1,227,898 Americans Dead From Covid 19

Mask discomfort and ignorance are no excuse. 6 years now. #COVID affects everyone. Best finds: Moldex Airwave 4800 #N95 which has excellent #Breathability (I'm a severe asthmatic) and my kid loves the black Bluna #KF94 with adjustable ear straps, he adds a nose foam stickers. U with us, u mask too.