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Three years ago today the term #LongCovid was first used as a Twitter hashtag. A single tweet by a patient linked together a growing grassroots movement of people, who weren't recovering from covid. Across the world, we're still fighting for research and treatment of our disease 
#LongCovid as a disease concept first grew out of a collective, grassroots, international, patient-driven movement of Covid survivors in early—mid 2020. As a disease entity, LC was recognized by the WHO in August 2020 thanks to intense patient advocacy
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Today Covid—Long Covid are—is among the most studied diseases in medical history. A search on the repository for scientific papers PubMed for *covid gives over 355,000 results. Papers include vast research on the long-term effects of SARS-CoV-2 infection
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»... doctors told him to 'stop making it up.'«
Diese Familien brauchen keine weit geöffneten LongLockdown Schubladen, sie brauchen #Anerkennung #Forschung #Hilfe #CountLongCovid #PostCovid #GenesenIstNichtGesund itv.com/news/meridian/…
Diese Familien brauchen keine weit geöffneten LongLockdown Schubladen, sie brauchen #Anerkennung #Forschung #Hilfe #CountLongCovid #PostCovid #GenesenIstNichtGesund itv.com/news/meridian/…
'My world came crashing down'
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"keep up with the science"
#WirBrauchenForschung
🙏#ForschungsTurboZünden JETZT!
#MehrAlsNurEinzelfälle #PostCovid
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#WirBrauchenForschung
🙏#ForschungsTurboZünden JETZT!
#MehrAlsNurEinzelfälle #PostCovid
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🔴Nous signons cette tribune dans @OuestFrance avec 200 scientifiques/soignants/membres de la société civile et de ~40 assos, collectifs &organisation professionnelles, 🇫🇷 &🌍/12 pays,
pour rétablir la réalité #CovidLong et exhorter @EmmanuelMacron @FrcsBraun à agir🔥
#apresJ20
pour rétablir la réalité #CovidLong et exhorter @EmmanuelMacron @FrcsBraun à agir🔥
#apresJ20
📌🔗Nous remercions tous les cosignataires pour leur soutien, liste complète des 200 signataires à retrouver : apresj20.fr/tribune-signat…
👉Merci aussi à ceux qui ne sont pas sur twitter et à :
@zalaly @PutrinoLab @LBatemanMD @darrenabrown @Sunny_Rae1 @dgurdasani1 @chrischirp
👉Merci aussi à ceux qui ne sont pas sur twitter et à :
@zalaly @PutrinoLab @LBatemanMD @darrenabrown @Sunny_Rae1 @dgurdasani1 @chrischirp
1/ Systematic review of the prevalence of #LongCovid
Now out as a preprint (not peer reviewed yet). It was a LOT of work. So grateful to my co-authors for their monumental effort: @MirembeWoodrow @NidaZiauddeen Darren Greenwood @vlutje1 Rebecca Thomas, @AthenaAkrami Chales Carey
Now out as a preprint (not peer reviewed yet). It was a LOT of work. So grateful to my co-authors for their monumental effort: @MirembeWoodrow @NidaZiauddeen Darren Greenwood @vlutje1 Rebecca Thomas, @AthenaAkrami Chales Carey
2/As expected we found a huge variation between studies (0-93%). Prevalence generally higher in studies with mostly hospitalised patients. Because of our search period, studies estimating prevalence post vaccination were not included but we know these generally show lower numbers
3/ The main message is that the way #LongCovid is defined & measured affect prevalence estimation. However, even with the most conservative estimates, given past and continuing #SARSCoV2 infection, the burden of chronic disease post infection on population health is substantial.
BA.4 and BA.5 are making their appearance in the US on CDC nowcast. Not sure when to expect them to comprise a majority of cases yet. /647
BA.4 & BA.5 as expected are progressing, approximately at the speed at which Delta took over from Alpha (as I've seen in the data for Massachusetts and the UK) in Illinois, here in the US. They'll likely be the majority of cases in just weeks.
/648
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The Moderna mRNA-1273.214 booster shot sounds very promising. I'm very curious how the neutralizing titers difference that their press release indicates will stack up against the BA.4/BA.5 variants that will be dominant in the US. /649
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“One in eight people who were hospitalised with COVID-19 between May 2020 and March 2021 were later diagnosed with myocarditis, or heart inflammation, according to major new research into the clinical long-term effects of COVID-19.” @UofGlasgow gla.ac.uk/news/headline_…
“The largest study of its kind to date was led by the University of Glasgow in collaboration with NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHS GGC), and followed for one year, in real time, 159 patients after they were hospitalised with COVID-19” #LongCovid #CountLongCovid
“However, this new landmark study suggests that it is the severity of the COVID-19 infection itself which is most closely correlated to the severity of a patient’s long-COVID symptoms, rather than pre-existing health problems”
Interesting new findings in @NatureMedicine
Interesting new findings in @NatureMedicine
Remember those public health vs the economy debates & headlines in 2020-21 when we were saying #CountLongCovid?
Well here goes an answer from none other than the Bank of England.
The quotes below are from a speech by Michael Saunders, Monetary Policy Committee Member:
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Well here goes an answer from none other than the Bank of England.
The quotes below are from a speech by Michael Saunders, Monetary Policy Committee Member:
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"Since Q4-19, the number of people aged 16-64 years that are outside the workforce and do not want a job has risen by 525,000 (1.3% of the 16-64 age population)."
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"This largely reflects increases in long-term sickness (roughly 320,000 people) and retirement (90,000), with smaller contributions from lower participation among students (65-70,000) and short-term sickness (30-35,000 people)."
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Just released:
Important @ONS findings for #CountLongCovid
TL;DR: In the tripple-vaccinated no statistical evidence of difference between the Omicrons & Delta in the prevalence of #LongCovid. However, BA.2 seems to lead to higher prevalence than BA.1 of LC of any severity.
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Important @ONS findings for #CountLongCovid
TL;DR: In the tripple-vaccinated no statistical evidence of difference between the Omicrons & Delta in the prevalence of #LongCovid. However, BA.2 seems to lead to higher prevalence than BA.1 of LC of any severity.
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Odds of LC 4-8 weeks after a *first* covid infection (not reinfections) is 50% lower in infections compatible with the Omicron BA.1 than those compatible with the Delta among adults who were *double-vaccinated* when infected.
Prevalence 15.9% for Delta and 8.7% for BA.1.
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Prevalence 15.9% for Delta and 8.7% for BA.1.
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There was no statistical evidence of a difference in risk between first infections compatible with the Delta and Omicron BA.1 variants among *triple-vaccinated* adults.
LC prevalence was 8.5% for Delta and 8% for Omicron BA.1.
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LC prevalence was 8.5% for Delta and 8% for Omicron BA.1.
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"Pooled mean prevalence results for any experience of PACS (Long Covid) extracted from nine systematic reviews, ranged from 51%–80%".
Yes. Read that again. 51%–80% of infections develop Long Covid. /1.
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Yes. Read that again. 51%–80% of infections develop Long Covid. /1.
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"Pooled mean prevalence results for specific PACS [Long Covid] symptoms were extracted, when available, from 32 systematic reviews".
Yes. Read that again. Extracted from 32 systematic reviews. /2.
Yes. Read that again. Extracted from 32 systematic reviews. /2.
"Symptoms and prevalence results varied widely across reviews, however some of the most commonly reported symptoms included fatigue; shortness of breath; anxiety; depression; sleep disorder; cognitive and memory impairments; and negative impacts on quality of life (QoL)". /3.
Please join us in welcoming our NEW #LCKchampion Dr Anna Brooks
BCA PhD Immunologist and Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Science, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Give her some #LCKfamily 💕@DrAnnaNZ
#LongCovidKids #NewZealand #NZ @jacindaardern
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BCA PhD Immunologist and Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Science, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Give her some #LCKfamily 💕@DrAnnaNZ
#LongCovidKids #NewZealand #NZ @jacindaardern
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#LCKchampion @surf4children
Dr Danilo Buonsenso
Paediatrician Dept of Woman and Child Health and Public Health Rome
#LongCovidKids #LongCovid
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Dr Danilo Buonsenso
Paediatrician Dept of Woman and Child Health and Public Health Rome
#LongCovidKids #LongCovid
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Today is my daughter’s two year #covidversary. She was 16 when she infected, and I fought hard to get her tested. Everyone said kids don’t get #COVID. But I knew they were wrong. Because I was looking at a kid with COVID. 1/
I decided to make her story public, because I knew that if my child was sick & couldn’t get tested, then there were many other families in the same boat. huffpost.com/entry/coronavi… 2/
We finally were able to test on day 14 of her illness, and day 5 of mine because I was high risk due to having MS. My test was positive. But Molly tested negative, because we missed the testing window. I had wanted her case counted, but it never was. 3/
That’s a substantial leap… 😳 #LongCovid
Latest #LongCovid data estimates from @ONS
"Long COVID is a patient made term, experienced by non-expectant risk groups. Approximately 1 in 10 experience #longCOVID not fully recovering"- @Dr2NisreenAlwan of @unisouthampton in the first session at our #LongCOVIDConference 🧵1/7
#CountLongCovid
#CountLongCovid
In the initial reporting, there was a large focus on death and survival. But "LongCOVID does not paint a black and white picture," says @Dr2NisreenAlwan. The grey area of chronic post-viral illness is missing from the narrative. 2/7
#LongCOVIDConference
#LongCOVIDConference
Even now, #LongCOVID is unacknowledged by UK policy makers and is missing from health policy discussions, despite 1.3 million people suffering from the condition. (data from ONS survey) 3/7
#LongCOVIDConference
#LongCOVIDConference
Thank you so much to @RepPressley for meeting with leaders of the #LongCovid & disability community to talk about major treatment, research, and policy needs, and her call to the CDC to #CountLongCovid!
Our full conversation is available here:
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Our full conversation is available here:
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Thank you to all the advocates (representing @patientled, @itsbodypolitic, @C19LH_Advocacy, @UTc19LongHaul & others) who spent energy giving amazing testimonies: @LisaAMcCorkell, @chiluvs1, @netiamccray, @LisaOBrienn, @SeeMiaRoll, @K_Bishof, @rubyslippahs, @annwlace409 & Molly 2/
A thing that stood out to me: Dr. Bateman (1:02:59), who spent her career seeing v disabled ME patients, saying:
"I was completely stunned by the disability & severity of illness in #LongCovid...the amount of cognitive impairment & physical impairment is just unbelievable."
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"I was completely stunned by the disability & severity of illness in #LongCovid...the amount of cognitive impairment & physical impairment is just unbelievable."
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Had no literal idea this “follow up interview” was gonna be live TV, but tried to remind @CBSMornings viewers it’s been 2 years & there’s still no warning about #LongCovid disabling 10-30% of all infected folks ~ and it’s 💯 critical we #CountLongCovid & #TreatLongCovid
When I open my zoom link and saw people talking about Afghanistan and Ukraine I was like is going on lol and then they I hear “you’re on in 30 seconds”
Full interview here cbsnews.com/video/long-ter…
I wrote this in August 2020 in @TheLancet:
“So far in the COVID-19 pandemic, surveillance systems are not monitoring ill health and long-term implications of COVID-19, only deaths are reported.”
“So far in the COVID-19 pandemic, surveillance systems are not monitoring ill health and long-term implications of COVID-19, only deaths are reported.”
“A universal surveillance case definition of recovery from COVID-19 is still absent. Many people have prolonged symptoms, ill health, and reduced functionality for months, even if they were not hospitalised for SARS-CoV-2 infection.”
“We must move long-haul COVID from anecdote to something that is routinely quantified and monitored, as is currently being done with deaths and positive tests.”
>>Leugnung ist ein großes Thema während der Pandemie. Leugnung der Übertragung über die Luft, Leugnung der Wissenschaft, Leugnung der Ernsthaftigkeit von Omicron und Leugnung dessen, was es wirklich bedeutet, „mit #Covid19 zu leben“<<
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>> Wir hatten wirksame Kampagnen zum Händewaschen, aber keine Kampagnen mit ähnlicher Wirkung wurden durchgeführt, um die Menschen zu befähigen, ihr eigenes Risiko mit einfachen Maßnahmen wie dem Öffnen eines Fensters zu kontrollieren.
#CovidIsAirborne
#CovidIsAirborne
Das Versäumnis, sich auf die Übertragung über die Luft zu konzentrieren, hat die Fähigkeit, die Ausbreitung zu kontrollieren, behindert... Die Korrektur ist entscheidend für die langfristige Nachhaltigkeit von Gesundheit, Unternehmen und Wirtschaft.
#LuftfilterJETZT
#LuftfilterJETZT
As a parent and a citizen, I am very alarmed by what is happening in Ontario.
Our CMOH has sanctioned the re-opening of schools during a time when they are less safe than ever.
I thought the CMOH was there to protect us from harm, to operate within the highest integrity,
Our CMOH has sanctioned the re-opening of schools during a time when they are less safe than ever.
I thought the CMOH was there to protect us from harm, to operate within the highest integrity,
upholding the ethics of their profession at all times, irrespective of political opinion or persuasion.
I was naïve.
“The Chief Medical Officer of Health (CMOH) reports directly to the Deputy Minister of Health.”
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I was naïve.
“The Chief Medical Officer of Health (CMOH) reports directly to the Deputy Minister of Health.”
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But how is 1 public health officer allowed to operate without any checks and balances? Oh wait – there are local checks and balances, but they are not being exercised at present.
ontario.ca/laws/statute/9…
Order by M.O.H. re communicable disease
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Order by M.O.H. re communicable disease
Primary schools in England are opening tomorrow with no mask recommendation, no adequate ventilation measures and no vaccine offer for all 5-11 year olds in the context of 1.1 million confirmed covid cases during the last 7 days in the UK.
#CountLongCovid
#CountLongCovid
NOT CHILBLAINS
8 yo Girl.
Off food for 2 days.
Bizarre itchy rash
Called 111 told Chilblains
Mum unconvinced
Got PCR
POSITIVE for #COVID
Please show #teachers #education #schools
#SpotCovid
Think #COVID19 #Omicron #LongCovidKids
8 yo Girl.
Off food for 2 days.
Bizarre itchy rash
Called 111 told Chilblains
Mum unconvinced
Got PCR
POSITIVE for #COVID
Please show #teachers #education #schools
#SpotCovid
Think #COVID19 #Omicron #LongCovidKids
#SpotCovid
Sores at the sides of the mouth.
This child tested positive for #COVID19
Please RT to help others #SpotCovid
#education #schools #teachers
#Omicron #OmicronVarient #LongCovidKids
Sores at the sides of the mouth.
This child tested positive for #COVID19
Please RT to help others #SpotCovid
#education #schools #teachers
#Omicron #OmicronVarient #LongCovidKids
#LongCovid has cost me everything — my health, my home, my career, proximity to everyone I know and my ability to rebuild what was destroyed. I’ve been without income for over a year. This virus has taken my life — without actually killing me.
2) Because SunLife wrongfully denied my long-term disability claim, I had to sell my new dream home to survive. My #LongCovid symptoms started only six months after moving in.
3) I say ‘wrongfully’ denied because I’m genuinely sick — I’m not faking it, lying about it or making it up. I’m not lazy, unwilling to work, hoping to retire early or attempting to commit insurance fraud. I am completely debilitated by #LongCovid and incapable of working.
Zusammenfassend lässt sich sagen, dass die zunehmende Evidenz zu neurologischen Folgeerscheinungen bei Patienten mit #COVID19 Anlass zur Besorgnis gibt. #NeuroCovid #PostCovid #CountLongCovid
nature.com/articles/s4158…
nature.com/articles/s4158…
PHASE 1 LAUNCH! New study reveals yawning gap in medical care for energy-impaired
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#pwME #NEISvoid #FBLC #LongCovidWork #LongCovidCosts #TreatLongCovid #CountLongCovid #miilionsmissing #HealthEquity #patientled #medtwitter #wellless
A THREAD >
thisiswellless.com
#pwME #NEISvoid #FBLC #LongCovidWork #LongCovidCosts #TreatLongCovid #CountLongCovid #miilionsmissing #HealthEquity #patientled #medtwitter #wellless
A THREAD >
Long-Covid visual report quantifies money, time, work and energy spent on the battle to get medical care, and introduces new language of the “well-less” to improve patient awareness and support.
@long_covid @longcovidwork @actionforme @chronicinclude #EDS #PoTS #postviral
@long_covid @longcovidwork @actionforme @chronicinclude #EDS #PoTS #postviral
![Image shows a new healthcare spectrum from Well[ness] throug](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FGO9JzfWYAMZmtQ.png)
I tracked and analysed my own health interactions from 2020 across nine different self-data sources, including @BupaUK @Bupa , @LloydsBank , @timspector (Zoe Covid Symptom Tracking App(, email, SMS, mobile and calendar data #Datavisualization #selfanalytics #dataviz
#longcovid recovery
A thread.
Whilst I write this I'm painfully aware of so many people with #longcovid who are far from recovery but at the same time I want to give hope.
A thread.
Whilst I write this I'm painfully aware of so many people with #longcovid who are far from recovery but at the same time I want to give hope.
Last September I lost my job as I was too ill to work due to #LongCovid
I was breathless, tachycardic, full of brain fog, and had tinnitus and myalgia. I had pyrexia daily and awful post exertional malaise that would hit every time I tried to do anything.
I was breathless, tachycardic, full of brain fog, and had tinnitus and myalgia. I had pyrexia daily and awful post exertional malaise that would hit every time I tried to do anything.
