🎂Today is the 4th anniversary of our Founding Member Claire Hastie 💙 creating our #LongCovid peer support Facebook group. A bittersweet birthday - we’d rather everyone was well & we weren’t needed. Instead the group has 65k+ members in 100 countries.

We get you. We’ve got you.

Food for thought …

It’s not the gut-brain axis, it’s the oral-bloodstream-brain axis.

The oral-gut axis just makes it seem as though it’s the gut-brain axis.

Everything is downstream of the mouth!

Pathogenic oral microbes overspill into both gut and bloodstream.

CHEST X-RAY 9: What signs of left atrial enlargement are visible? Answer - bit.ly/3OLnsP7

Gotta love the bees at this time of year. So docile.
This queen is as cool as they come
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Dear All Medical Journals
When you are performing final edits to a manuscript do you press a button marked ...

DELETE HYPHENS AT RANDOM, ADD SPELLING ERRORS AND SPURIOUS WORDS

... and then send to the corresponding author?

Wes Streeting MP Thanks for asking Wes

The most pervasive ‘stupid stuff’ we do is spending on treating disease which could have been prevented had we invested in disease prevention.

´ We cannot treat our way out of these problems, we can only prevent our way out.´

Quoting C Whitty Professor Chris Whitty

I’m neither a politician nor an economist, but finding it hard to see how it could be good to have 3% of the workforce long term unwell to #LongCovid , yet no moves to acknowledge, mitigate, research or treat?

Latest UK data for self-reported #LongCovid for England and Scotland

A rise in cases, despite the removal of access to testing and vaccination.

Long COVID is damaging public health!!

We need urgent investment to continue our response to a pandemic that is not over!!!

Difficult to explain how upsetting I find this

In any other setting we would call this a safeguarding issue

Big food companies are targeting their junk at infants

It’s time to call out the food industry

#TaxSugarToOblivion

How about this question posed by Huang et al?

The oral microbiome in autoimmune diseases: friend or foe?

doi.org/10.1186/s12967…

Have a read then vote here
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What Rishi Sunak Really Meant in his Train wreck Press Conference.
#StopFakingSick

#Covid19 #NotMild   #Maskup #LongCovid #CovidIsntover #CleanAirNow

#COVID …
It’s all about the mouth folks!

Excellent work from Marcelo Freire #drInflammation
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No Home Office we will not be doing this.
Not just inaccurate or unethical but impossible.
Any comment from The Royal College of Radiologists about this?👇

Use of imaging to assess age of migrants is 'inaccurate', experts say dailymail.co.uk/health/article… via Daily Mail Online

I know #LongCovid twitter has been buzzing today bc Dr. Monica M. Bertagnolli has unambiguously named viral persistence as a driver of LC pathobiology. I’m thrilled to see this too and I view it as an historic moment. However, today I’d like to do a little Amy Proal, PhD appreciation post 1/

Pleased to publish this in Clinical Radiology

' #COVID -19 lung disease is a pulmonary vasculopathy'

(It is behind a paywall but I will unpack in due course.)

doi.org/10.1016/j.crad…

Definition of middle age…

I now get adult friendship and support from my adult children.

(Other definitions of middle age are available)

More ‘myths’ about #NHSdentistry

Don’t believe a word the current government says on #oralhealth

It seems their current plan is to fiddle the books by refining ‘access’ to dental care

Time for a general election!

We need a government that cares about #preventativemedicine

It's not #AllintheMind it's #AllintheMouth ...

See this enlightened viewpoint on the oral-microbiome-brain axis from two anthropologists.
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The Oral-Microbiome-Brain Axis and Neuropsychiatric Disorders: An Anthropological Perspective
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

Super preprint on automated microscopy of #microclots in #LongCOVID by carrie dalton and colleagues: medrxiv.org/content/10.110… #TeamClots

NHSE & Govt have decided patients no longer need GPs

EVIDENCE~since 2016
500 more patients/GP~2300
20% less funding
2% cut 2024/25
Funding additional roles but not GPs
Govt manipulation of GMC/NHSE leadership
RCGP complicit

2015/2019 election promise for 5/6000 more GPs - LIES