Becky Ancira Robertson

@ancirabecky.bsky.social

Survivor. Proud mother. Teacher. Activist. Trying to make a difference.
#PatientAdvocate #longcovidawareness #LCDC #March15 #ValueCognition #WHN

Interview with @theWHN :
https://youtu.be/YUgcqJ-m7C0

@samillingworth.com Oct 10, 2026, 3:32 PMReposted by @ancirabecky.bsky.social

🐒 In monkeys, how COVID gets in beats dose

Pooling 107 experiments on 721 monkeys and other primates shows the entry route shapes infection more than dose, age, sex, or species. Route also decides which tissues get infected.

🔗 doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aei4853

#COVID19 #Virology #Health 🧪

@dkn60.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 12:38 AMReposted by @ancirabecky.bsky.social

Science Sphere Scientistsfoundtinyclumps ofclottingproteinstangled with immune-cell material-long COVID. Thierry et al., “Circulating Microclots Are Structurally Associated With Neutrophil Extracellular Traps and Their Amounts Are Elevated in Long COVID Patients,” Journal of Medical Virology (2025).

@ancirabecky.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 7:32 PM

Taking a social media break. My pup, Murphy, age 17 is going to the Rainbow Bridge tomorrow after a lifetime of love & attention. He can no longer walk up & down the stairs & has a heart murmur.

Before things get even more difficult for him, we don’t want to be selfish. #DogMom #RIP 🐾❤️

@gorgepulse.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 7:26 PMReposted by @ancirabecky.bsky.social

On 10/7, OHA reported no new COVID deaths in Oregon; the total is 10,979. Hospitalizations are at 1.6 per 100,000, compared to a national average of 1.1. Wastewater levels show a sustained increase at 10 sites. This wave is at peak levels & the chart shows 4 years of data for ...

@mcfonen.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 11:33 PMReposted by @ancirabecky.bsky.social

"SARS-CoV-2 is linked to “an unusually high level of ‘indiscriminate’ killing of T cells,”6 says Leitner, adding that this observation is “reminiscent of” measles, which can cause immune amnesia by depleting memory B cells"

Jeimy says that many infants and toddlers admitted to hospital with rare infections since 20225 weren’t yet born when pandemic restrictions were in place, and they therefore couldn’t be experiencing immunity debt. They were, however, likely exposed to SARS-CoV-2.

Wolfgang Leitner, chief of the Innate Immunity Section at the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), speculates that covid-19 may somehow impair the immune system’s “memory” of past infections, potentially making even healthy people more vulnerable to future pathogens. He wonders whether the virus leaves lasting scars on the immune system’s T cell defences. “But that’s just (my) hypothesis,” he emphasises in an email.

Immunity reset?

SARS-CoV-2 is linked to “an unusually high level of ‘indiscriminate’ killing of T cells,”6 says Leitner, adding that this observation is “reminiscent of” measles, which can cause immune amnesia by depleting memory B cells...

@tomkindlon.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 11:51 PMReposted by @ancirabecky.bsky.social

From the US

Neurocognitive Indices of Long COVID: Dysregulated Engagement of Inhibitory Control and Oscillatory Slowing

www.mdpi.com/2673-4087/7/...

Screenshot from latest Science for ME weekly update

#LongCovid #NeuroPASC #COVIDBrain #PASC #PwLC #postcovid #postcovid19

Neurocognitive Indices of Long COVID: Dysregulated Engagement of Inhibitory Control and Oscillatory Slowing — White et al
"Taken together, these findings clearly indicate that even mild PASC is associated with significant alterations in cell signaling, characterized by oscillatory slowing."
Article | Thread

@tomkindlon.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 12:02 AMReposted by @ancirabecky.bsky.social

From Ireland

Characterizing Host Inflammatory Bioprofiles in People With Postacute Sequelae SARS-CoV-2 Infection (PASC)

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1155/...

Screenshot from latest Science for ME weekly update

#LongCovid #PASC #PwLC #postcovid #postcovid19

Characterizing Host Inflammatory Bioprofiles in People With Postacute Sequelae SARS-CoV-2 Infection (PASC) — Marmont et al
"six distinct inﬂammatory clusters were identified within people with PASC, three of which showed elevated biomarkers related to tissue damage and repair, coagulation, axonal injury, and antiviral immune responses and were associated with component 3 of the complement pathway."
Article | Thread

@ancirabecky.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 7:27 AM

stories.tamu.edu/news/2026/10...

@publichealthaction.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 12:08 AMReposted by @ancirabecky.bsky.social

Join @togetherwemask.bsky.social and PHAN on Friday, October 9th for a forum with Q&A with Black authors who've written about their experiences with Long COVID.

#covidisnotover #stillmasking #longcovid #publichealth #healthyair

@ancirabecky.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 1:38 AM

www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/low... It could also be a warning that you’ve had too many covid infections.
#LongCovidAwareness

@saskattitude3.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 4:54 PMReposted by @ancirabecky.bsky.social

Sask opens flu and COVID immunization bookings as sickness circulates. Clinics will start the week of October 13th. Encouraging people to get vaccinated as early as possible. #vaccines #health #Saskatchewan #yxe #MaskUp
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

@ancirabecky.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 8:09 PM

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

@atranscendedman.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 9:49 PMReposted by @ancirabecky.bsky.social

Mark Haddon built a life out of words.

Long COVID made the words harder to reach.

There’s something especially cruel about an illness that can make your own mind feel just out of arm’s reach.

www.brainhealth.com/voices/celeb...

@pqpolitics.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 10:06 PMReposted by @ancirabecky.bsky.social

#LongCovid patients have nearly twenty times more microscopic blood clots than healthy individuals.

Unlike typical clots, these 'microclots' are wrapped in sticky, web-like structures made of DNA and enzymes released by white blood cells.

www.linkedin.com/posts/hashem...

@ancirabecky.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 10:45 PM

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

@ancirabecky.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 1:57 AM

I hope this doesn’t cause WW4 within the #LC community. 🙏 Follow the Science. 🧪

@ladyknightskye.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 11:01 PMReposted by @ancirabecky.bsky.social

The hellacious part of having a special interest in epidemiology post-COVID is continually running into announcements like these and getting increasingly annoyed by everyone’s untreated PTSD. Aside from the misinformation in the skeet, no, this isn’t a Wuhan situation. This isn’t the next pandemic

@ancirabecky.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 12:47 AM

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@ancirabecky.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 3:35 AM

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@tomkindlon.bsky.social Oct 3, 2026, 11:57 PMReposted by @ancirabecky.bsky.social

Post-Exertional Malaise in Long COVID and Post-Vaccine Syndrome: Why “Exercise More” Is the Wrong Answer

drpierrekory.com/blog/post-ex...

Pity that there is only one reference to ME/CFS in the (long) article

Screenshot from October AMMES newsletter

#LongCovid #PostExertionalMalaise #PEM

Image of somebody with their head in their hands with the following text
Post-Exertional Malaise in Long COVID and Post-Vaccine Syndrome: Why “Exercise More” Is the Wrong Answer

A walk around the block, a few hours of focused work, a social event, or a workout you thought you were finally ready for. It didn’t feel excessive at the time.

Then, 12 to 72 hours later, something happened that has no parallel in “normal” human experience. Not tiredness. Not soreness. A complete systemic collapse, with fatigue so profound it feels neurological, brain fog that makes thinking feel like wading through quicksand, muscle pain, sensory sensitivity, and a return of every symptom you thought you’d been making progress on.

This is post-exertional malaise. And if you have Long COVID or Post-Vaccine Syndrome, you’ve almost certainly experienced it.

What you may not have received is an honest clinical explanation of what it actually is, why it happens, and why the treatment most clinicians prescribe — pushing through, gradually increasing activity, “deconditioning” management — is not just ineffective but genuinely harmful.
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