Question for the Long-Covid community:

How are you coping with the mental side of this sudden illness?
What small or big things help you get through the day—and give you something to look forward to tomorrow?

Thanks so much for sharing.

@longcovid@mstdn.social @longcovid@fedigroups.social
@mecfs

#LongCovid #PostCovid #NietHersteld #NichtGenesen #PAIS #disability #healthcare

@tomkindlon

among Quebec healthcare workers demonstrated that the cumulative risk of developing long COVID from an acute infection is 17% and increases with each infection.

and

many [family doctors] are themselves incapacitated with long COVID, and those who are not lack education and training on how to manage it. “The family doctors I know who were disabled by long COVID often did not know they had long COVID,” said Hulme. They would confuse it with other conditions, such as perimenopause.

and

There is a lot of stigma around [long COVID. Physicians with it] have had a really hard time going off work. They have been made to feel very guilty and [risk] losing their practice.”

#Canada #HealthCare #CDNPoli #quebec #LongCOVID #CovidIsNotOver #SARSCoV2 #COVID #COVID19

@tomkindlon

among Quebec healthcare workers demonstrated that the cumulative risk of developing long COVID from an acute infection is 17% and increases with each infection.

and

many [family doctors] are themselves incapacitated with long COVID, and those who are not lack education and training on how to manage it. “The family doctors I know who were disabled by long COVID often did not know they had long COVID,” said Hulme. They would confuse it with other conditions, such as perimenopause.

and

There is a lot of stigma around [long COVID. Physicians with it] have had a really hard time going off work. They have been made to feel very guilty and [risk] losing their practice.”

#Canada #HealthCare #CDNPoli #quebec #LongCOVID #CovidIsNotOver #SARSCoV2 #COVID #COVID19

"For the moment, those plans seem deep on the back burner, while Trump’s focus is Venezuela, Venezuela, Venezuela and oil, oil, oil.

Americans aren’t blind, and they can see that Trump’s military strike was largely about helping an industry that many Americans detest: the oil industry."

#Trump #Venezuela #imperalism #oil #BigOil #EconomicElites #economy #healthcare #affordability
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Question for the Long-Covid community:

How are you coping with the mental side of this sudden illness?
What small or big things help you get through the day—and give you something to look forward to tomorrow?

Thanks so much for sharing.

@longcovid@mstdn.social @longcovid@fedigroups.social
@mecfs

#LongCovid #PostCovid #NietHersteld #NichtGenesen #PAIS #disability #healthcare

A teacher called over a dozen therapists to find mental health care following a miscarriage.

An EMT spent months looking for one after a suicide attempt.

They couldn’t find any in-network provider able to see them. Now they're suing their insurer.
https://www.propublica.org/article/emblemhealth-ghost-network-mental-health-lawsuit-new-york?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Law #Health #MentalHealth #Lawsuit #Healthcare #Insurance #NewYork

A teacher called over a dozen therapists to find mental health care following a miscarriage.

An EMT spent months looking for one after a suicide attempt.

They couldn’t find any in-network provider able to see them. Now they're suing their insurer.
https://www.propublica.org/article/emblemhealth-ghost-network-mental-health-lawsuit-new-york?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Law #Health #MentalHealth #Lawsuit #Healthcare #Insurance #NewYork

Just published: Apple Health + ChatGPT: The Privacy Tradeoff.

OpenAI’s new ChatGPT Health feature can connect to Apple Health (and even medical records). The convenience is real, but so is the expanded attack surface. With healthcare breaches hitting millions of records, my blunt take is: if you care about privacy, don’t use it. Full stop.

If you do use it anyway, I break down what “not used for training” does and doesn’t mean, why HIPAA isn’t a force field here, and the practical steps to reduce your blast radius.

https://www.kylereddoch.me/blog/apple-health-chatgpt-the-privacy-tradeoff/

#CyberSecurity #Privacy #Apple #OpenAI #Healthcare #ThreatModeling #DataProtection

#House passes #bill to extend #healthcare #subsidies in defiance of #GOP leaders

In a remarkable rebuke of Republican leadership, the House passed #legislation Thursday, 230-196, that would extend expired #health care subsidies for those who get coverage through the Affordable Care Act [ #ACA] as “renegade” GOP lawmakers joined essentially all #Democrats in voting for the measure.

#law #trump #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #HealthInsurance
https://apnews.com/article/house-democrats-republicans-vote-health-care-subsidies-7d69148c6619a190f8d4abb85a7344b8?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2026-01-08-Breaking+News

#House passes #bill to extend #healthcare #subsidies in defiance of #GOP leaders

In a remarkable rebuke of Republican leadership, the House passed #legislation Thursday, 230-196, that would extend expired #health care subsidies for those who get coverage through the Affordable Care Act [ #ACA] as “renegade” GOP lawmakers joined essentially all #Democrats in voting for the measure.

#law #trump #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #HealthInsurance
https://apnews.com/article/house-democrats-republicans-vote-health-care-subsidies-7d69148c6619a190f8d4abb85a7344b8?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2026-01-08-Breaking+News

Just published: Apple Health + ChatGPT: The Privacy Tradeoff.

OpenAI’s new ChatGPT Health feature can connect to Apple Health (and even medical records). The convenience is real, but so is the expanded attack surface. With healthcare breaches hitting millions of records, my blunt take is: if you care about privacy, don’t use it. Full stop.

If you do use it anyway, I break down what “not used for training” does and doesn’t mean, why HIPAA isn’t a force field here, and the practical steps to reduce your blast radius.

https://www.kylereddoch.me/blog/apple-health-chatgpt-the-privacy-tradeoff/

#CyberSecurity #Privacy #Apple #OpenAI #Healthcare #ThreatModeling #DataProtection

‼️Die #Petition

"Bessere Erforschung von ME/CFS durch ein strukturiertes Förderprogramm vom 17.07.2025"

hat bisher 306 Mitzeichnungen.

Es fehlen noch 29694 Unterschriften bis zum 15.01.2026.

https://epetitionen.bundestag.de/petitionen/_2025/_07/_17/Petition_184056.nc.html

(Automatischer Tröt. Es werden ausgewählte Petitionen beobachtet.)

#autotröt #Petition #Bundestag #Petitionsausschuss #PostCovid #ChronischeErkrankung #Pflege #Inklusion #healthcare #MECFS

#chronicillness #chronicallyill #medical #healthcare

#chronicillness #chronicallyill #medical #healthcare

"In a first for the U.S., Utah is letting artificial intelligence — not a doctor — renew certain medical prescriptions. No human involved.

The state has launched a pilot program with health-tech startup Doctronic that allows an AI system to handle routine prescription renewals for patients with chronic conditions."

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/06/artificial-intelligence-prescribing-medications-utah-00709122

#healthcare #PrescriptionDrugs #AI #physicians #FDA #utah

"In a first for the U.S., Utah is letting artificial intelligence — not a doctor — renew certain medical prescriptions. No human involved.

The state has launched a pilot program with health-tech startup Doctronic that allows an AI system to handle routine prescription renewals for patients with chronic conditions."

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/06/artificial-intelligence-prescribing-medications-utah-00709122

#healthcare #PrescriptionDrugs #AI #physicians #FDA #utah

‼️Die #Petition

"Bessere Erforschung von ME/CFS durch ein strukturiertes Förderprogramm vom 17.07.2025"

hat bisher 306 Mitzeichnungen.

Es fehlen noch 29694 Unterschriften bis zum 15.01.2026.

https://epetitionen.bundestag.de/petitionen/_2025/_07/_17/Petition_184056.nc.html

(Automatischer Tröt. Es werden ausgewählte Petitionen beobachtet.)

#autotröt #Petition #Bundestag #Petitionsausschuss #PostCovid #ChronischeErkrankung #Pflege #Inklusion #healthcare #MECFS