❤️ @long_covid & we're so grateful to be partners with you all ❤️ so mindful of your time and effort ⚖️ when unwell
👏 @FelicityLiew@p_openshaw@rhyanthwaites 👏
🌟 now to turn data into more therapeutic clinical trials & reverse the pathophysiology
🤞 we're planning BIG 🤞
'This week, ONS data reconfirmed the substantial impact this is having on our national prosperity. The number of people who cannot work primarily because of long-term illness reached yet another record, at nearly 2.6 million.' We must invest in better health.
This is looking like a variant that is not fizzling out. Everyone taking it very seriously (including WHO and national agencies around the world).
Key thing is to get some data as soon as possible on its immune evasion and severity .
CDC update: 20% #LongCovid
"As more persons are exposed to and infected by SARS-CoV-2, reports of patients who experience persistent symptoms or organ dysfunction after acute COVID-19 and develop post-COVID conditions have increased" https://t.co/o6ZB0s2VN2
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There's the moral argument for increasing nurses' pay - very strong. Then, there's the economic argument. Want to fill all those vacant nurses' posts? Pay a decent wage, and relieve the pressures of understaffed services.
Nurses' pay has fallen by 5% since 2010. The pay offer will lead to a predicted further fall of 5%. The PM describes this as "appropriate and fair"!! https://t.co/rgenHEZ17L
Why we desperately need nasal vaccines to block infections and reinfections
https://t.co/hzYDvrq34M @eBioMedicine by @FelicityLiew@ShubhaTalwar and colleagues
Why we desperately need nasal vaccines to block infections and reinfections
https://t.co/hzYDvrq34M @eBioMedicine by @FelicityLiew@ShubhaTalwar and colleagues
Out recently: https://t.co/1m9ieHnm22, the most extensive profiling of complement in infectious disease.
The alternative pathway drives uncontrolled complement activation in COVID-19, which is predictive of outcome, and suggests tissue deposition is important in pathology (1/4)