April 2024: 'Long-Term Effects of COVID-19: The Stories of 2 Physicians Who Became Patients'
'James Mwangi, MD; Jeffrey N. Siegelman, MD - Emory Univ. School of Medicine'
'Our intention in this article is to generate more awareness about long COVID...'
Quietly published by CDC: “SARS-CoV-2 can have lasting effects on nearly every organ & organ system of the body weeks, months, & potentially years after infection. Documented serious post-Covid conditions include cardiovascular, pulmonary, neurological, renal, endocrine, hematological, & gastrointestinal complications, as well as death.”
“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.”
Blood abnormalities found in people with Long Covid
Study implicates lack of key hormone, damage to immune cells, and reawakened viruses.
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
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 ?
