Long Covid/PASC (general)

“The majority assume LC only comes in the form of fatigue etc, which is demonstrably untrue. This is just one way in which the disease can present itself.

This causes many to believe the number of LC cases to be far lower than reality & even believe they don’t have it themselves.”

“PRESS RELEASE🚨

Long COVID-suffering performers sounded the alarm on the Long COVID emergency in the arts outside #EEBAFTAs.

One protestor chanted ‘Silence=Death’ echoing the estimated 27m people who have died from COVID.”

Long Covid patients in South Africa face lacking treatment and gaslighting:

“It’s so painful to be dismissed as mentally ill when you physically just can’t function.”

“Hi, I’m Hannah. This is my story about COVID changing my life. This will be a thread, so here we go:

I got COVID in 2020 (during the first wave, months and months before the vaccine was released) at the age of 23. I am now 28 years old, and I spend every day in a bed.”

study of 39 Long COVID patients found elevated interferon activity and autoimmune markers, including anti-dsDNA and anti-Sm antibodies, similar to lupus.

Researchers propose an interferon-driven autoimmune mechanism for Long COVID.

“The Survivorship Bias That’s Killing Us: Long COVID and the Myth of “Moving On”

It’s easy to believe everything is fine when you only see the survivors. The people who didn’t die, who seem to be “back to normal,” are the faces we focus on. But what about the ones you don’t see? The coworker who hasn’t returned to the office. The friend who never seems to make plans anymore. The parent who used to juggle it all but now struggles to get through the day. These are the millions suffering from Long COVID.”