Adventures In Long Covid

#LongCovid since Autumn 2021. Previously busy: mum/wife/daughter; employee; volunteer; and walker of the dog. #StopRestPace. RT often 4 file.

[Prof Doug Kell CBE #FBPE #FBPA🔶🇪🇺 @dbkell]

Excellent summary of #LongCOVID clinical trials: https://t.co/TiJHe7SNUF

[Adventures In Long Covid @AdventuresInLC]

@EASCS11 @VictoriaCoren @BBCTwo But incy wincy spider as the on-screen answer

[Cat in the Hat 🐈‍⬛ 🎩 🇬🇧 @_CatintheHat]

Here’s Jim Reed, the BBC’s health reporter speaking on BBC Radio 5 Live:

“Almost every expert out there thinks <Long COVID> is a very important factor in explaining why we’ve seen this rise over the past 4-5 years in people who are off work long-term sick”.

[Adventures In Long Covid @AdventuresInLC]

@dianne49 @_CatintheHat THIS. The @NHSuk only seems capable of chucking a pill at pts to treat symptoms.

Abysmal at prevention and no understanding of root cause

[Todd Davenport @sunsopeningband]

Long COVID trials are struggling—not because of lack of effort or goodwill (mostly), but because of errors in trial design and poor endpoints. Our new paper, out today, lays out how to start fixing this. Now.

A short 🧵.

[Adventures In Long Covid @AdventuresInLC]

@ukhadds Will you make a complaint to @ipso?

[Al Haddrell @ukhadds]

One of the reasons why I go so hard on science misinformation/disinformation, is that as a working scientist it is frustrating to see your research misreported to push an agenda.

For example, consider this piece of right-wing propaganda from The Telegraph that was just published

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@EricTopol @jonykipnis Is this relevant to Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus where csf doesn’t drain adequately, or is this a separate mechanism? TY

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@vicderbyshire There’s a VERY big if needed with that assertion. That’s far from the full picture.

[Adam Bienkov @AdamBienkov]

The Covid Inquiry finds that if Boris Johnson had called the first lockdown even one week earlier then it could have saved at least 20,000 lives.

Here's a quick reminder of what Johnson was actually doing during those weeks

[Adventures In Long Covid @AdventuresInLC]

All the usual suspects clearly haven’t read the @covidinquiryuk briefing & taking comments out of context to allege that lockdowns weren’t needed.

If we’d only had stringent restrictions those same usual suspects wld b claiming those weren’t needed. Doesn’t fit their narrative

[Byline Times @BylineTimes]

🔴Drowning in Denial: One in Five Homes in Reform UK Heartlands Could Be Under Water Within 25 Years

As Nigel Farage’s party scraps climate schemes around the country, new data shows flood risk surging across the ten councils it leads
https://t.co/Lr0sLa86TN

[💜OldFashionedAnne @oldfshndanne]

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🚨Posted on FB by Durham County Department of Public Health-

COVID-19 MYTHS vs FACTS

And THIS is what Public Health messaging should look like.

Take note @CDCgov and @WHO

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[Cat in the Hat 🐈‍⬛ 🎩 🇬🇧 @_CatintheHat]

Please give @PacoOnPause just 2 minutes of your time ⬇️

“If you’re on a beach and you see the water unexpectedly recede, the best time to seek high ground is right away.

“If you wait until you can see the water flooding back in, it’s probably too late.”

This is spot on. 🎯

[Adventures In Long Covid @AdventuresInLC]

@Dolly98188933 @alco2024 It was a fairly sympathetic segment but they completely ignored the fact that Covid is still high and people getting LC now.

[tern @1goodtern]

Covid positivity among 15 to 24 year olds here.
👀

[Adventures In Long Covid @AdventuresInLC]

@_CatintheHat @RosieDuffield1 Like @vernonkay on @BBCRadio2 yesterday complaining of flu-like symptoms & bad stomach after his holiday. Let’s hope there’s no clinically vulnerable people on his train or in workplace.

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@VenturaSpleen @SalvMattera Plenty of long haulers from 2020 and early 2021.

[Adventures In Long Covid @AdventuresInLC]

Hey @vernonkay

You know the flu-like bug with icky tum you said you had on @BBCRadio2 this morning

You need to take a test for this and consider protecting vulnerable people from your virus.

https://t.co/vhoBOw1R2U

#covidisnotover
#covidisairborne

[NHS Grampian @NHSGrampian]

Due to cases of COVID, wards 110 and 308 at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary are closed to all but ESSENTIAL visitors. Normal visiting applies in all other wards. If you are unwell, please do not visit relatives or friends in hospital.

[Dr Elisa Perego @elisaperego78]

Presenting #LongCovid as a disease "without biomarkers" is a way to minimize the disease entity. Making it a "mystery", some "fatigue", "unexplained symptoms". Yet, everyone who reads the scientific literature knows that a rich palette of biomarkers are associated with LC