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 ?
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
"The scientific world is now publishing papers that show the consequences of Covid after initial infection...1 in 22 will have a major cardiac event within 12 months of having caught Covid" Quote Tweet Adam @ABrokenBattery ·
Major @NIH study finds COVID can quickly disseminate & infect multiple organs, including brain, & remain for months (likely, we will learn, years). Even in mild/ asymptomatic cases.
Known since 2020: "The Great Invader: How COVID Attacks Every Organ"
If 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
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.
Last month, the US Census released data showing that 7.5% of the entire US is currently experiencing #LongCovid for at least 3 months. That's 1 in 13 people!
If that seems high to you, here's a thread to understand how it can be true.
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
Excellent piece in @FT on the Longterm effects of Covid
‘This is not something that will go away in a week, in a year, or two, or three. This will reverberate with us for generations'
Thanks to @SarahNev for interviewing me & for replotting data from our @NatureMedicine paper
The growing evidence that Covid-19 is leaving people sicker The potential impact on heart and brain disease poses challenges to healthcare systems globally
"Very few people, even at 6 months, have actually metabolically, functionally recovered.
They may have stopped coughing but they've still got a lot of other things wrong with them.” 👨🏾🔬JN, Nov’21