The government’s take on long Covid - the problem is, the medical community needs to go back a few steps and accept that 1. COVID is not a cold, but an illness that can result in serious chronic illness due to multi-organ effects. 🧵thesaturdaypaper.com.au via @SatPaper
The term was coined by patients, but fatigue may be due to heart failure, respiratory damage, immunological effects or a range of other genuine pathologies. The virus may persist in the body ilong after the infection. This may cause immunopathology nature.com
The effect on multiple organ systems may be quite substantial and the risk of many serious effects including diabetes, sudden death, PE, heart attacks etc remains elevated for at least 12m as shown by @zalaly nature.com
It causes neurocognitive & psychiatric effects including limbic encephalitis, and pronounced limbic system symptoms such as dysautonomia, mood and sleep disturbance, even hallucinations - perhaps bcos the olfactory bulb tracks up to the limbic system msard-journal.com
Multiple studies show ongoing cognitive impairment including in young people. Shouldn't we be worried about this and increase in dementia in years to come? nature.com
The cardiac effects are also incredibly worrying, as we outline here. Will we see young onset heart failure in years to come? We are already seeing sudden deaths in young adults. academic.oup.com
I could go on & on. Anyone who follows the literature would know this is a serious infection. If #LongCovid is 5% or 30%, both will have a major population health impact. We have become so invested in mass infection that we cannot go back and admit we should prevent #COVID19
Once we admit that, we can do better on increasing bivalent booster rates for better protection and also vaccinating kids <5 years eurosurveillance.org
We can expand access to antivirals to reduce LC - both pax and MPVR are shown to reduce LC risk. Even a 14% reduction will have a population health impact.
We can use masks, ventilation, mandatory isolation, widespread testing and do so much to reduce transmission. Instead, we see ongoing information warfare against measures to prevent #COVID, with the public duped in cheering on harm to themselves and their loved ones. End.
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