Blood abnormalities found in people with Long Covid
Study implicates lack of key hormone, damage to immune cells, and reawakened viruses.
Every time you catch COVID-19, your risk of other severe issues starts to rise.
Research is starting to show that with reinfection, your chance of serious issues such as diabetes, mental health issues, and chronic fatigue goes up.
Clip from today's BBC Morning Live segment on #LongCovid
Dr @xandvt talks about a new study that found #LongCovid has a greater impact on quality of life than some Cancers.
1/🧵 Long COVID’s “Disability Roulette”
🔺No longer a mass Death event… 🔺COVID-19 is an ongoing mass #Disability event 🔺You & I might get #LongCOVID 🔺But society is yawning
This thread unpacks science, policy & hope.
1/11 SARS-CoV-2 & rapid loss of acquired immunity:
a 🧵 collecting various papers & results leading up to an idea:
rapid waning is
- actually chronic antigen exposure of a persistent SARS-CoV-2 infection
- leading to depletion/exhaustion of
- SC2 acquired immune memory
Truth is the ground beneath our feet.
Saying it’s OK to get COVID is quicksand.
Here’s solid ground: “post-acute sequelae of COVID-19…is a multisystemic condition comprising often severe symptoms…[with an] incidence of 10% of infected people.”
"Why long COVID could be a ticking time bomb for public health
Long COVID isn't novel: other viruses in history have had similar 'long' arcs — with devastating repercussions"
f you've had #COVID19, your organs might not be working the same way they did before. @zalaly , the Director of the Clinical Epidemiology Centre at Washington University, explains. #LongCOVID
Remember: we knew covid and #LongCovid were causing coagulopathy, hypoxia, cardiac events, strokes, vascular damage, kidney damage, damage to the immune system, etc. in 2020 already. Survivors told you so Health bodies and a big part of the medical establishment chose to ignore
One-Year Adverse Outcomes Among US Adults With Post #COVID19 Condition vs Those Without COVID-19 in a Large Commercial Insurance Database 1/
CDC quietly added this without any press highlighting—“Emerging evidence suggests that #SARSCoV2, that causes #COVID19, can have lasting effects on nearly every organ and organ system of the body weeks, months, and potentially YEARS after infection.” #LongCovid So @CDCDirector ?