She’s had covid “20-25” times since covid started—and that’s with confirmed positive tests at urgent care or the hospital because she has terrible symptoms with covid each and every time she’s had it. The doctor said “maybe your body’s not making the antibodies to fight it.”😭

“She’s had covid ‘20-25’ times since covid started—and that’s with confirmed positive tests at urgent care or the hospital because she has terrible symptoms with covid each and every time she’s had it. The doctor said ‘maybe your body’s not making the antibodies to fight it.’”😭

#Immune system #anecdote #Long Covid #Post-Acute Conditions #Video #acute Covid

·x.com·Nov 4, 2024

She’s had covid “20-25” times since covid started—and that’s with confirmed positive tests at urgent care or the hospital because she has terrible symptoms with covid each and every time she’s had it. The doctor said “maybe your body’s not making the antibodies to fight it.”😭

🧵 I think I have a very unique & valuable perspective when it comes to SARS-CoV-2. I've spent the 1st three years of the pandemic in one of the the busiest hospital based chemistry/bloodgas labs in the US & the last 20 months as a generalist in a medium sized hospital. 1/

“🧵 I think I have a very unique & valuable perspective when it comes to SARS-CoV-2. I've spent the 1st three years of the pandemic in one of the the busiest hospital based chemistry/bloodgas labs in the US & the last 20 months as a generalist in a medium sized hospital. 1/“

#David Christopher #Discussion #Post-Acute Conditions #organ damage #Anecdote #Long Covid #inevitable effects of Forever Covid #Heart #brain #lung #vascular #Immune system #Liver #gastrointestinal #cancer #airborne #hospital acquired infection

·x.com·Oct 15, 2024

🧵 I think I have a very unique & valuable perspective when it comes to SARS-CoV-2. I've spent the 1st three years of the pandemic in one of the the busiest hospital based chemistry/bloodgas labs in the US & the last 20 months as a generalist in a medium sized hospital. 1/

‘General Hospital’ Icon Emma Samms Talks Latest Return to the Show Amid Her Battle With Long COVID (EXCLUSIVE)

“I’ve been like this now for four and a half years nearly, and it’s baffling to not just the people who have it, but it’s baffling to the doctors,” she says. “They are some very smart people who are investigating and studying it and doing research, but all they keep finding is more and more damage that COVID has done to people’s bodies.

“I got some really good scans done and they found that at some point I had had myocarditis, which has scarred my heart,” Samms continues. “The consequences of COVID — I think we still have only just scratched the surface, and it’s terrifying to me that people think we are no longer in a pandemic. Because they so desperately want it to not affect them, they sort of pretend that it is has gone, and it so hasn’t.”

#anecdote #long covid #myocarditis #heart injury #Immune system

·variety.com·Sep 4, 2024

‘General Hospital’ Icon Emma Samms Talks Latest Return to the Show Amid Her Battle With Long COVID (EXCLUSIVE)