WesElyMD on Twitter
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.
🔴 tohmes on Twitter
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
Mary Fernando MD on Twitter
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.”
Dr Elisa Perego on Twitter
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
Dr. Deepti Gurdasani on Twitter
Given we know that the risk of cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, renal disease, neuro-cognitive disease and clotting events are increased after COVID, how are these events being recorded & attributed in patients? 🧵
Chris Turnbull on Twitter
Covid triples chances of early death and massively increases risk of serious diseases for at least a year after infection, New Study finds:
Antonio Caramia on Twitter
One-Year Adverse Outcomes Among US Adults With Post #COVID19 Condition vs Those Without COVID-19 in a Large Commercial Insurance Database 1/
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
Robert Leaman on Twitter
Some take-away points: most methods will only retrieve about 20% of the articles relevant to #LongCovid; our method identifies many more but isn't perfect: the language is just too variable
STEMLORD LORD OF THE STEMM on Twitter
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
Ebony Jade Hilton, MD on Twitter
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.
R P Shah Memorial Trust for Kids & Global Health on Twitter
Long thread - 1) When the pandemic started I immediately started looking for the long term problems that people who were long haulers in the previous SARS pandemic faced , that allowed me to focus on the expected issues ctd@LongCovidKids
Dr Elisa Perego on Twitter
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
Jonas R. Kunst on Twitter
A new study "found six distinct clusters of #LongCovid patients, each with distinct profiles of phenotypic abnormalities with enrichments in pulmonary, cardiovascular, neuropsychiatric, and constitutional symptoms such as fatigue and fever."