🧵OUT TODAY: New economic analysis reveals Long Covid could be a long-term drag on economic growth and add pressure to already strained NHS 📊🔍 1/8

Find out more here: bit.ly/3PtysTs #LongCovid Awareness #LongCovid #PublicHealth #EconomicInactivity

My partner and I are now BOTH disabled by Long Covid. We're already looking at filing bankruptcy because I lost my income. Now he's about to as well. Disability takes years to get. We are literally going to end up homeless and without a car and I want to scream.

𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗔 𝗠𝗢𝗡𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗥, 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗦 𝗦𝗔𝗥𝗦-𝗖𝗢𝗩-2 𝗩𝗜𝗥𝗨𝗦 !

▶️ Not only do viral particles infect so many cells via several receptors
▶️ Not only can the virus use infected cells 'as cargo carrying virions' to cells not yet infected

(𝘈𝘐 𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥)

In long COVID patients with brain fog (brain scan at right), dye injected into the bloodstream tends to leak into the brain (see colored speckles) more so than in people without brain fog (left).

sciencenews.org/article/long-c…

It's 2024. Swedish media outlet Aftonbladet is reporting that Covid-19 has an unexpected effect - brain fog.

You know, the thing we've known about since 2020.

Perhaps what's unexpected is that it affects Swedes too, not just those dirty foreigners? 🤷‍♂️

I was one of the researchers/scientists @nature talked to about academia and #LongCovid . I talked about being unable to work because of LC and my other chronic diseases. I underlined the need to revolutionise academia as a way to give disabled academics a chance to a career 1/

Many with long COVID have found ways around their health problems, but they say more employer support is needed go.nature.com/3vg7LdM

I spoke with Putrino Lab about that weird call from the chief health officer of Queensland, Australia, to drop the term 'Long Covid,' and also about his latest study with Prof. Akiko Iwasaki on sex differences in LC: virology.ws/2024/03/19/tri…

Boom! 🎤!! thegauntlet.news/p/media-celebr…

The Queensland, Australia CHO can GFH.
Thank you Dr. Millar

🧵The UK House of Commons has produced a report on #LongCovid

'There is currently no effective treatment for long covid.'

The report notes that the NICE guidance has not been updated since 2021

The £50m research funding paid out in 2021 is highlighted
researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-…

Revisiting the long-term health effects of Covid vs flu

3 key points

1. Covid is worse than flu

2. Covid is more multisystemic; flu is more respiratory

3. Both covid and flu cause more health loss in the long-term than what is evident around the time of acute infection

Autoimmunity in Long Covid and POTS academic.oup.com/ooim/article/4…

People don’t stay sick because we use the terms “myalgic encephalomyelitis” and “Long Covid.” They stay sick because we don’t yet have approved tests and cures for them.

Turns out being unable to successfully treat something is hella “nocebic.”

C’mon now. Focus, people.

Danish study on long term effects of olfactory & gustatory loss post Covid: severe decrease in QoL. Conclusion: '...recommend ear–nose–throat specialists in multidisciplinary post-COVID clinics' #LongCovid @longcovidphysio @longcovidSOS Long Covid News #pwLC #FBLC mdpi.com/2077-0383/11/2…

This man is a dangerous 🤡

'hug [your] children a little bit tighter tonight'

The father of R.G.E., a 23-month toddler who died in Queensland (Australia) in July 2022, after COVID-19 triggered 'a rare autoimmune condition, which caused her immune system to attack her brain.'

9news.com.au/national/coron…

For the minimizers
Covid is a mass disability event
57%, report that their lives have not returned to normal & 43% expect they never will Long COVID is a mass disabling event Long Covid News #pwLC #FBLC LongCovidSpain Sue McBean Concerned Citizen
news.gallup.com/poll/612230/fo…

Apparently if I have Long Covid I'm not allowed to swear!
Honestly these trolls 🤦🏼