"The most common way COVID-19 is transmitted from one person to another is through tiny airborne particles of the virus hanging in indoor air for minutes or hours after an infected person has been there"...#COVIDisAirborne hallelujah! @drdavidmichaels
https://t.co/geFdrLSrFi
When society decides a mass disabling event is “over,” the people still suffering become invisible. Their illness becomes anxiety. Their disability becomes a personal failure. Their abandonment and subsequent isolation becomes their fault because “they chose to hang on to it.”
FDA needs to hear from us NOW!📣
I will submit a comment on my personal success with repurposed antivirals reversing lymphocytopenia from LC, and will include my graph following lymphocytes subsets over 8 years and timeline of treatment introductions. I will also submit a letter urging FDA to allow for repuposed antiviral trials for LC and attach @LongCovidAP's book.
The final peer-reviewed version of the ACTIV-6 metformin study is finally here.
But the main takeaway hasn’t really changed.
Primary endpoint not met
trend favoring metformin
fewer physician-diagnosed Long COVID cases
very low Long COVID rates overall
most participants already had prior immunity
JN.1 was the dominant variant
And those last two points may be the key to understanding the results🧵
We could invest $3B into EIP (Engineered Infection Prevention), free up thousands of hospital beds & save billions of dollars every year
Oh yeah, & save hundreds of thousands of infections & thousands of preventable deaths
EVERY. SINGLE. YEAR.
Make Hospitals Safe Again
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Reducing Long Covid to a few symptoms that fit certain illness narratives is harmful. Refusal to acknowledge damage to organs such as heart and lungs can foster a climate where people will be denied care, and might die as a consequence. Patients deserve better. We deserve to live
@CovidSolidarit1 What a bunch of bullshit. What's actually driving "this epidemic" is the infinite sars-cov-2 infections people keep gleefully subjecting themselves to.
@CarnivoraCC I’m sorry. Thank you for persisting in the face of cruelty. I try to remind myself that it is about them, not me. But it still leaves a mark. I hope you experience more kindness than cruelty. Thank you for masking - it is such an act of love. 💝
@ashishkjha Policy choices that allow one virus to spread unmitigated create opportunities for other pathogens to spread. Public health policy protections matter.
And this is where public health matters.
For years, the dominant message was that repeated Omicron infections are mostly trivial for children.
But more and more findings suggest that confidence was badly misplaced.
We are seeing measurable changes after infection - in immunity, autonomic function, the heart, now microcirculation. @szupraha@ZdravkoOnline@adamvojtech86@adamkova_vera
The problem with articles like the Wired one is LongCovid patients aren’t the intended audience. These articles aren’t meant for us. They are for our families, our doctors, our employers, & our elected officials, & they are used to harm us.
Even if the individual risk looks small, repeated infections across millions of children can become a population-level health problem.
Public health failures in preventing infections, including Omicron era, may leave consequences that do not show up in daily hospital numbers.
They may show up later - in long-term health.
NIH taught me one thing.
If you want to be heard, put it in the federal record.
Now it's FDA's turn.
Long COVID should be prioritized for drug repurposing, adaptive NIH/FDA platform trials and insurance coverage.
Comment here by June 11.
https://t.co/TlNiqZun03
It feels like an insurmountable obstacle.
But history suggests otherwise.
People once believed HIV/AIDS could be acquired through casual contact.
Then they learned it wasn’t limited to one group.
Then they learned it wasn’t spread by touch.
Then they learned the importance of blood, sexual fluids, and other transmission routes.
Public understanding changed because the model changed.
With COVID, many people are still operating with the wrong model.
First, they have to understand that it travels through the air and can accumulate indoors.
Then they have to understand that infection isn’t binary—survive or die—but can involve long-term health consequences.
Then they have to understand that those consequences can affect anyone.
Once the model changes, the conclusions become much harder to avoid.
You only lash out at the people trying to warn you if you are emotionally incapable of hearing what they are trying to tell you. People lash out at the Covid cautious because the idea of the pandemic is too much for them to handle.