How many more lives will it take before healthcare systems & governments act?
Every day without prevention, treatment, care, & #LongCovid education costs people their health, livelihoods, and futures.
Silence is not a strategy.
Inaction is costing lives globally.
#LongCovidKills
🖤🐘 Another life lost to Long Covid and medical negligence.
Rest in peace, Paola.
Long Covid death shall not be silent.
#LongCovidKills
=> The fight continues. There is so much to do, the COVID crisis is just beginning. But don't lose hope. And don’t lose your anger either.
Ignorant scientists just dropped a 'post-pandemic diabetes' paper that pretends COVID-19 vanished in 2023.
Title screams “COVID-19’s Lasting Impact” yet the entire analysis dodges the elephant:
→ SARS-CoV-2 is causing new-onset diabetes in millions,
→ Science papers: 1.37% incidence in infected patients, 40%+ higher risk persisting 3–12 months, beta-cell destruction, chronic inflammation,
Global Burden of Disease (GBD) numbers didn’t magically accelerate, because of the “pandemic,”
SarsCoV2 is still driving them,
Calling it “post-pandemic era” while ignoring the active viral trigger isn’t science, this is wilful blindness,
This is how you gaslight a global metabolic catastrophe!😡
Wake up!!
#COVIDDiabetes #ScienceFail
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The concept of Long Covid covers a broad range of biological abnormalities not because it's "vague", as some erroneously claim. It does so because SARS-CoV-2 infection can affect the whole body from "head to toe". Multi-system pathology is an hallmark of the disease
@WIRED This is an absolutely garbage article attempting to relaunder a bunch of pseudoscience. The fact that WIRED would publish something as ignorant as this is really disturbing.
There are MILLIONS of people who could be saying and doing constructive things about the Covid pandemic, to reduce harms, but it's all left to a bunch of mostly disabled people on Twitter.
There are days where that imbalance really pisses me off.
Long Covid is not "baffling" at all. There are thousands of publications which show multi-system pathology across all body systems, including extensive evidence of organ damage. The scientific and clinical evidence is undeniable and should be reported about accurately
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"Many patients with long COVID are already receiving care but are not being recognized as having the condition. These patients are not absent from clinical care; they are absent from the diagnostic code that would identify them as long COVID patients"
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“After a truly “mild” COVID infection in 2022, we had cardio-pulmonary symptoms persist for 6+ months…” Brian and Britt @bduff9#MaskUp especially at the “Big 3”. They were interviewed by @MsJulieSLam at a @PosDevNYC event.
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Unraveling the cardiovascular burden of long COVID: symptom profiles, underlying mechanisms, and clinical management insights
🚨A peer-reviewed cardiac bombshell just AGAIN exposed the brutal reality of Long COVID HEART DAMAGE!
➡️This Chinees review synthesizes current evidence on the symptom profiles, underlying mechanisms, and clinical management of Long COVID-related cardiovascular complications.
➡️Symptom profile:
- Long COVID cardiovascular sequelae affect 10–20% of survivors, with persistent symptoms (≥2 months post-3-month mark) including palpitations (68%), chest pain (53%), fatigue (63%), and dyspnoea,
- POTS occurs in ~31% of cases,
- Functional deficits persist up to at least 12 months: 20% drop in 6-minute walk test distance, reduced cardiac index, stroke volume, and ejection fraction (18–29%).
➡️Structural findings:
- Cardiac MRI shows involvement in 78% and myocardial inflammation in 60%,
- Autopsies reveal myocarditis (14%) and macrophage infiltration (86%).
➡️Mechanisms:
→Multifactorial and overlapping:
- Viral persistence (spike protein detectable in 60% at 12 months),
- Chronic immune dysregulation (elevated IL-1/IL-6/IFN-γ/TNF-α),
- Endothelial dysfunction,
- Microvascular injury with microthrombi (80% in some autopsies),
- Hypercoagulability, and
- Autonomic dysregulation.
➡️Blood markers / biomarkers:
- Persistent spike protein is detectable in blood plasma (and tissues) in ~60% of Long COVID patients at 12 months, but absent in recovered controls. This further dismantles any vaccine-causation narrative,
- Inflammatory cytokines are elevated (IL-1, IL-16, IL-17, IL-22, IFN-γ, TNF-α), linked to endothelial dysfunction, platelet activation, hypercoagulability, and myocardial injury,
- Cardiac troponin is often elevated as a marker of ongoing ischemia/injury.
➡️Risk modifiers:
- Severe acute infection drives more structural damage,
- mild cases more autonomic/functional,
- Vaccination may cut risk: 30–50%,
- Delta-era cases worse than Omicron.
➡️Management:
→Currently symptom-driven:
- Graded rehabilitation,
- Lifestyle measures,
- Beta-blockers,
- Targeted anticoagulation,
→Multidisciplinary phenotyping recommended,
→No approved mechanism-specific therapies exist.
➡️Conclusions:
“Based on these findings, the following clinical recommendations are proposed:
(1) cardiovascular evaluation should be considered in patients with persistent post-COVID-19 symptoms, including autonomic function testing and imaging where indicated,
(2) management should be phenotype-driven and multidisciplinary, incorporating tailored exercise rehabilitation, pharmacological control of heart rate and symptoms, and anticoagulation only when thromboembolic disease is confirmed,
(3) vaccination should be encouraged as a preventive measure to reduce Long COVID risk; and
(4) future research should prioritize mechanism-based subtyping and randomized trials of targeted interventions.”
‼️So, AGAIN, Cardiovascular Long COVID is a real, heterogeneous, and enduring burden fuelled by unresolved viral–immune–vascular damage that current symptomatic care cannot fix. Without urgent, mechanism/phenotype-targeted treatments, millions will face chronic heart impairment for years to come!
PREVENTION NEEDS PRIORITY !
#AvoidSars2 #AvoidReinfections #CleanAir
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It is about time:
SARS-CoV-2 3CL Protease Inhibitor Ensitrelvir approved in the United States! 💊
It’s nice to see this happening after we pushed the govt for some time to approve this drug.
More antivirals needed still. 🦠
#COVID#LongCOVID#pwLC#GiveUsMoreAntivirals
Boston Globe: 1 in 6 Americans who had COVID developed Long COVID
“… roughly 54 million Americans developed #LongCOVID.”
The research team was a little conservative in its calculations.
#pwLC#AntiviralsNow
COVID-19 ➡️ "...significantly increased hazard ratios for all six allergic conditions...asthma and rhinoconjunctivitis were significantly associated with infection. In children, all conditions except food allergies were significantly associated with infection."
🌍😷WORLD MASK WEEK
Chaque masque raconte une histoire.
Pour certains, le Covid est un souvenir.
Pour d'autres, il a marqué le début du Covid long.
Derrière chaque masque, il y a une histoire que l'on ne voit pas toujours.
#ActionCovidLong#WorldMaskWeek#CovidLong
I did the math
30% to 40% of REPORTED COVID cases in 🇨🇦 hospitals are HOSPITAL ACQUIRED
ACTUAL COVID cases are ~ 60% to 80% hospital acquired
5% to 10% of hospital acquired COVID patients DIE
So, in hospitals we need universal:
1. TESTS
2. N95s
3. UPPER AIR UV / FARUV