Epidemiologist Jeremy Farrar;
” #LongCovid , with chronic fatigue and neurological symptoms, will be with us for a very long time, I fear. And it's going to have a massive impact on the lives of a lot of people, quite often still young people…” spiegel.de/wissenschaft/w…

Going to work indoors + not wearing a mask 😷 may lead you to exp. :
Ill health
#LongCovid
Long waits for healthcare
Job loss or reduced hours
Financial hardship
Debts
Claiming and fighting for #Benefits
Relationship changes and so many other losses…
#DisabledByLongCovid

BIG NEWS - just posted. At last!!! A large clinical trial for Long Covid with the antiviral Paxlovid. Standard dose administered for 15 days. clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT05…

UPDATE...another new site is OPEN!

Sheffield Teaching Hospital are now delivering the LISTEN to people with #LongCovid living nearby.

To learn more about the trial, and the co-designed intervention, please visit listentrial.co.uk

Sheffield Hospitals NIHR CRN Yorkshire & Humber Long Covid Support 🌍

⚠️Long Covid Support 🌍, Long Covid Kids HQ #LongCovidKids #ProtectAllKids & Long Covid SOS are proud to represent the #LongCovid / #LongCovid Kids community as core participants in the UK Covid-19 Inquiry module 2.

We stand with Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK in seeking justice for lost & radically changed lives, and to safeguard the future.

“I’ve never seen such sticky blood” says thrombosis expert

“The other thing that we’re seeing, which caught a lot of people out, is blockages in tiny vessels.” #LongCovid medicalnewstoday.com/articles/covid…

Health authorities underestimated need for #LongCovid services, leaving too many #pwLC unsupported or relying on already inadequate post viral services. Compounded by fact that specialties are siloed and none has ‘claimed’ LC, patients are shunted from one clinic to another

👉The teams of ApresJ20 - Association Covid Long France association & of the Covid 19 au Long cours and Pediatric Long Covid collectives Collectifs COVID19 au Long Cours & CL Pédiatrique A. Cristina Mas

Our press release (in french): apresj20.fr/_files/ugd/9a4…

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'A mild COVID infection changed my life. Why aren't we warning others?'

Great piece by Charlie McCone (charlos) in San Francisco Chronicle

Charlie tested positive for the coronavirus in March 2020 and has had severe symptoms ever since.
#LongCovid
sfchronicle.com/opinion/openfo…

A healthy workforce means a healthy economy.

'A recent study in the Lancet estimated that about 22% of people with #LongCovid were unable to work due to ill health & another 45% had to take reduced hours'
Prof. Devi Sridhar

🇺🇦 LongCovidWork 🇺🇦

#longcovidwork

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

This pilot study using antiviral chewing gum suggests to me that the mouth is a key source of aerosol/droplet #SARS2 transmission (rather than the lungs)

#mouthcarematters
#oralhealth

doi.org/10.1007/s15010…

If one of the big calls was to ‘create orphans’, then yes, Johnson got all the big calls right.

This is the map of children losing their parents due to the COVID pandemic. Guess which Western European country is the only flagged as red?

Yes, that’s right. Boris Johnson’s legacy.