mask forever?
🧵 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/“
Living With Long COVID and Its Debilitating Symptoms
“Even mild cases of COVID-19 are linked to potential long-term repercussions — some of them deadly serious”
The Crucial Long Covid Symptoms You Need To Look Out For | HuffPost Life
“COVID-19 is a severe and multi-organ disease, which may have lasting consequences on your body even after the virus is cleared from your system.”
As COVID Surges, the High Price of Viral Denial | The Tyee
“Repeated studies show in the bluntest terms that the initial acute infection is only the tip of the iceberg. Even a mild bout of COVID can leave a legacy of blood clots, heart failure, diabetes, decreased brain function (see sidebar), long COVID (now affecting 400 million people worldwide) and immune damage that increasingly makes people more vulnerable to a plethora of infectious diseases and possibly cancers.
These problems can erupt three years after an infection”
Long COVID patients’ brain activation is suppressed during walking and severer symptoms lead to stronger suppression
Guangzhou, China, Long Covid was found to “suppress brain activity during walking,” with more severe initial symptoms leading to greater suppression.
Patient-Reported Experiences of Persistent Post–COVID-19 Conditions After Hospital Discharge During the Second and Third Waves of the Pandemic in Switzerland: Cross-Sectional Questionnaire Study
“Study from Switzerland: 245 COVID-19 patients surveyed 4 months post-hospital discharge.
Only 28.2% were symptom-free.
Women and those with longer hospital stays reported more persistent symptoms.
76.4% had memory and concentration issues.
Dr. Amer, Ohio State Univ. on IPM today, "I got COVID three times...after the second time, I suffered from brain fog..it was the most horiftying experience of my life. This was very scary..my job depends on my brain. All of a sudden I couldn't even type...it was really shocking."
COVID virus evolves more rapidly in the central nervous system than in the lungs, study finds | UIC today
COVID virus evolves more rapidly in the CNS
New viral variants created in the brain & other parts of the nervous system could also travel back to the lungs, where they could become transmissible. That could spread new, dangerous variants of the virus.
“Debilitating a Generation”: Expert Warns That Long COVID May Eventually Affect Most Americans
“Think you’ve grasped the full extent of COVID’s ongoing impact? Think again. As Americans shrug off vaccines and forget indoor air quality, the virus stealthily continues its destructive path. This was pretty much inevitable without new guidance urging a change in strategy and nobody telling us the full truth.
The danger is clear and present: COVID isn’t merely a respiratory illness; it’s a multi-dimensional threat impacting brain function, attacking almost all of the body’s organs, producing elevated risks of all kinds, and weakening our ability to fight off other diseases. Reinfections are thought to produce cumulative risks, and Long COVID is on the rise. Unfortunately, Long COVID is now being considered a long-term chronic illness — something many people will never fully recover from.”
“Debilitating a Generation”: Expert Warns That Long COVID May Eventually Affect Most Americans
Ingomar Gutmann 👨🏻🔬⚛️ on Twitter
The best ways to measure this are shown in our new peer reviewed @Brain1878 paper
Quantitative myelin 🧠 imaging with MRI 🧲and PET☢️
with @rauscherMRI as senior author