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Votes for children! Why we should lower the voting age to six.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/nov/16/reconstruction-after-covid-votes-for-children-age-six-david-runciman

For more than three years, I’ve lived with long COVID.
The dizziness never leaves.
I can’t drive more than half an hour without starting to get nauseous.
Any strenuous activity — mental or physical — leaves me with post-exertional malaise that feels like a hangover the next day.
I’ve learned to adapt and find gratitude for many things, but life remains an exhausting calculus of rationing energy across work, chores, and my kids.
I am only one of over an estimated …

I Am One of 20 Million in US With Long COVID. RFK Pulled the Rug From Under Us.
RFK Jr. has shut down the Office of Long COVID Research and Practice, gutted funding, and derailed trials and studies.

This is genuinely the boogie man I'm afraid of.
☑️ Strange changes found in blood of long Covid patients | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/long-covid-patient-blood-change-b2866428.html#Echobox=17…

Strange changes found in blood of long Covid patients
Tiny clots appeared larger-than-normal in long Covid patients, study finds

Scientists Reveal Biological Basis of Long COVID Brain Fog #covid
https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-finally-reveal-biological-basis-of-long-covid-brain-fog…

Scientists Finally Reveal Biological Basis of Long COVID Brain Fog
Researchers employed a specialized brain imaging technique to identify a potential biomarker and therapeutic target for Long COVID. More than four years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists are still working to fully understand the lingering effects of infection with SARS-CoV-2. O

#FactFriday
An unwalled version of a walled article that originally appeared in Rolling Stone (not happy that Rolling Stone has such an important health article behind their wall - I've seen other places unwall important articles - shoutout to @…). I personally …

KI-Update Deep-Dive: Wie CAIMed Diagnosen verbessern will
Künstliche Intelligenz soll bei der Diagnose von Krebs, Sepsis oder Long-Covid helfen. Das niedersächsische Forschungszentrum CAIMed entwickelt dafür KI-Tools.

In Deutschland leben rund 1,5 Millionen Menschen mit #LongCovid oder #MECFS.
Nun stellt die #Bundesregierung 500 Millionen Euro für die Erforschung postinfektiöser Erkrankungen bereit.

Long Covid und ME/CFS: Mehr Geld für Erforschung postinfektiöser Erkrankungen
In Deutschland sind circa 1,5 Millionen Menschen von postinfektiösen Erkrankungen betroffen. Für deren Erforschung gibt es nun mehr Geld.

**Brainstem damage found to be behind long-lasting effects of severe #COVID19**
https://www.news-medical.net/news/20251008/Brainstem-damage-found-to-be-linked-to-long-lasting-effects-of-severe-Covid-19.aspx

'This Physicist Says We Don’t Take COVID Seriously Enough' https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2025/10/31/Physicist-COVID-Seriously-Enough/
Insurance companies reporting excess mortality linked to long COVID, and the American Medical Association…

Added a zoom level to the Category page on the Exocortex-Log app. Can make the graphs look a lot cleaner now.
Looking back over the last 100 months here, we can see in general my social life is quite seasonal -- Festivals are a lot of social all weekend long and a couple of them in a month really bumps up the hours from my usual habit of sitting alone in a dark room pressing buttons.
The peak in 2019 is a summer filled with Glasto and Noisily and another festival or camping trip I don’t seem to have recorded the name of.
Then clearly visible is the drop-off in social activity as the COVID pandemic hit. Virtual-Social (IE zoom meetings and the like) picked up quite a bit around there but had died back to almost nothing way before the hours spent with actual people started to tick up.
Annoyingly, I have my biggest gap in data right on top of the pandemic there, where I failed to back up for months and then data became corrupted.
When the data-hole is over we see social life still not really returning until the middle of 2021 and not really getting back into stride until summer 2022.
It remains much lower now on average with lower peaks than before the pandemic too. Multiple reasons.
Work is pretty constant all the way though other than the data-hole. Dipping when I take time off for social mostly.
That data-hole is annoying. Back up your data kids.
#lifeLog #app #exocortexLog

Last season’s updated vaccine provides significant protection against covid-19,
particularly against severe illness and death.
The results reaffirm the benefit of staying current with covid vaccination.

Researchers analyzed data from approximately 1.8 million Americans between August 2024 and April 2025,
of whom only about 13 percent received the 2024–2025 coronavirus shot.
They evaluated three clinical outcomes related to the disease: infections, emergency departm…

How long does covid booster protection last? A new study offers answers.
More evidence highlighting the benefit, and limitations, of covid-19 vaccines

There's a nasty respiratory bug going around. Neighbors got it a week or so ago. kid brought it home from preschool, now her and my wife have it. Bad cough, extremely stuffy nose, maybe a bit of fever.
Negative for COVID on a nucleic acid test, so it's probably something else. RSV? Bad cold? Weird COVID variant with a mutation in whatever region the primers in the test bind to?
So far I feel fine. Either it has a really long incubation period (like more than a week), I ha…

Identification of post-COVID-19 symptoms using brain structural MRI features: a machine learning approach
Abdi Reza
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00195 https://

Identification of post-COVID-19 symptoms using brain structural MRI features: a machine learning approach
Identifying long COVID symptoms is a challenging task, primarily due to the reliance on patient reports and the lack of disease specific biomarkers. The objective of this study is to identify individual long COVID symptoms, post COVID 19 conditions (PCC) participants, and participants' sex, and to identify the associated brain regions by developing an explainable machine learning algorithm using brain MRI features. This study implements secondary analysis using an anonymized, publicly accessibl…

ME/CFS ist eine schwere #Multisystemerkrankung, die mit tiefer #Erschöpfung, #Schmerzen und

Spektrum-Podcast | ME/CFS: Wie Betroffene um Anerkennung ihrer Krankheit kämpfen
Wie lebendig begraben: So schildern Betroffene das Leben mit ME/CFS. Warum wir die Krankheit noch immer zu wenig verstehen und was sie mit Long Covid zu tun hat

Scientists from the University of East Anglia and Oxford BioDynamics have created a highly accurate blood test capable of diagnosing
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome,
also known as Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS).
The condition, which causes long-term and often debilitating exhaustion,
affects millions of people around the world,
including more than 400,000 individuals in the UK.
Despite its prevalence,
ME/CFS has remained poorly understood and notorious…

Breakthrough blood test finally confirms Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
A team of scientists has developed a highly accurate blood test for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. The test reads tiny DNA patterns that reveal the biological signature of the illness. For millions who’ve faced doubt and misdiagnosis, it’s a breakthrough that finally validates their experience — and may help diagnose long Covid too.