“The US reported an average 1500 COVID-19 deaths a week for 2023 – comparable to fentanyl or firearm deaths.”

This wasn’t from health officials but insurance actuaries.

“People I know are yet again talking about sudden health problems:

Hearing loss. Loss of smell. Movement issues. New onset asthma. Heart conditions. Clots in the legs. Zero connection being made to COVID.

The only thing public health succeeded at is covering their own ass.”

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.”

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

Amazing news - paper in @Nature reporting that SARS-CoV-2 acts like a histone, thus blocking host epigenome.

Translation: DNA in our cells is packaged into chromosomes, and these are held together by histones, which are a kind of protein. Histones have to be unwrapped, then

Covering ICU this week and FYI to whomever needs to hear it: COVID attacks your brain, lungs, heart, liver, kidneys, intestines, immune system, and clogs up your blood vessels like a dirty pipe.

You don’t want it.

Wear a mask. Get Vaccinated.