David It Up!
@Dave_it_up
Passionate IT healthcare professional dedicated to improving lives in rural America.
Repeated COVID-19 Infections: A Jenga Tower of Hidden Damage Imagine playing a game of Jenga. You carefully pull out blocks, each removal making the tower a bit shakier. Some blocks cause visible shifts, while others seem insignificant—until one day, the wrong block is pulled,…

This is my new thought process. From Long Covid, to politics. If I just pushed out doom all the time, it promotes giving up, and that fulfills its own prophecy. F’ that! If you follow accounts, and that’s all they tell you, limit your access to them or unfollow them.
I’ve shifted from being a doomer like you, to I’m not going to stop hoping and pushing. If all I do is doom out and push that view, people give up, and that becomes a self fulfilling prophecy.
The Story of SARS-CoV-2: And a Path to Long Covid The Beginning It starts in the air. A tiny thief, invisible and opportunistic, escapes on a mist of breath from someone already infected. You might not see it. You might not even notice the person who coughed, whispered, laughed.…

"This virus is like cancer. It gets into every part of your body. When it gets there, it uses your body as a factory, whether it be the virus or it's the mRNA spike" "This virus has beaten us, we have the opportunity to fix it...but can the FDA even understand this science?"
Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong Issues Urgent Warning: COVID-19 is Not Just a Respiratory Virus—It’s Like cancer "This virus has beaten us." In a chilling revelation, Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong—renowned surgeon, scientist, and billionaire biotech pioneer—warns that COVID-19 is far more…
Disease = known cause + defined pathophysiology Syndrome = pattern of symptoms that cluster together (cause may or may not be known) Before we can talk about Long Covid and ME/CFS, we have to get one thing straight. The difference between a disease and a syndrome matters, a lot.…
If you are concerned about your healthcare, health insurance, this is a good discussion on the impacts coming due to changes in government. I missed the beginning, but so far it’s been good.
COVID-19 on The Rise - snapshot for Friday, July 18 2025 1. National signal • The CDC’s epidemic-trend model now shows infections growing in twenty-five states while holding steady in twenty-one. None are declining. • Test positivity ticked up to 3.1 percent for the week…

What’s the fastest way to cement someone’s beliefs you disagree with? Come at them hard and tell them they are wrong. Want to cement them even more? Do it with righteous indignation, smugness and anger.
A Breathable Shield Against COVID-19? Scientists at McMaster University are testing a new kind of COVID-19 vaccine that you breathe in instead of getting by shot. Early results from a Phase 1 study with thirty six healthy adults show it is safe and sparks strong immune…
Detecting COVID-19 for clinical trials Here is the same information, but in more common language. Dr. Shannon Stott and her team have created a new way to detect the virus that causes COVID-19 using a special lab tool called a “microfluidic chip.” This chip is coated with…
Dr. Shannon Stott is leading a team using a novel microfluidics approach to identify SARS-CoV-2. A ‘Herringbone’ chip is coated with ACE-2, to pull out SARS-CoV-2 from blood: in acute COVID, “when we looked at basic plasma testing, we saw that no virus was found… but those same…
Another LongCovid monoclonal antibodies success story 🎉 We don't need trials, we need them put back on the market, stat. Way too many years and LIVES wasted already. UNLEASH the mAbs!!
@Invivyd - I’m ready to call it. This drug is incredible. Long Haulers need it. Just a couple of weeks along, I’m seeing what others w/ Long COVID report. These antibodies are powerful- WE NEED A TRIAL!! @polybioRF? My nightmare began in Jan ‘24. Today I feel Perfect 🥳
U.S. COVlD transmission is expected to increase quickly. Today is a good day to restock on masks, tests, and air filters. Check your blood pressure. If you can afford it, get an indoor air quality monitor. Track nearby transmission via the new links on our dashboard.
PMC COVlD Dashboard, Jun 23, 2025 (U.S.) We continue to expect transmission to break 500,000 daily infections in the U.S. around July 9th. This is the same prediction as last week, as the forecast was dead on. Yet, there is considerably uncertainty around this timing. 🧵3/6