Two things can both be true

1) viral persistence as a cause of #longcovid is a worthy hypothesis and deserves more funding and attention

2) the evidence for viral persistence as a cause of #longcovid is constantly overstated ‘on here’

Zurich Insurance’s responsible investment head resigns because of long Covid
citywire.com/ch/news/zurich…

The gut microbiome and #LongCovid :
'Gut microbiome-based multi-label machine learning accurately predicts upcoming long-term symptoms after acute COVID19.'
cell.com/cell-host-micr…
Cell Host & Microbe by Siew Ng CUHK Medicine and colleagues

They just asked them about symptoms (without any non-Covid controls), and didn’t do anything like test for POTS. None of the patients who had ongoing symptoms reported heart palpitations or dizziness, common POTS symptoms

pleased to share with you my invited commentary on The Lancet ID about the las test publication on the link between SARS-CoV-2 and #longcovid .

Happy to know your thoughts and feedbacks.

Long COVID and SARS-CoV-2 persistence: new answers, more questions

thelancet.com/journals/lanin…

FND is the most profound failure of logic in Western medicine.

It is a label weaponised against patients to cover for the ignorance and incompetence of their doctors.

I’m beginning to think the cruelty is the point.

Update. I reached out and NIH director Dr. Monica Bertagnolli has corrected this error.

She says she 'misspoke' and had “meant to say ‘viral components’ rather than ‘live virus.’”

The NIH also confirmed to me such remnants have not yet been shown to correlate with symptoms.

Fabulous: they detected a signature of autoantibodies years before onset of #MS
genengnews.com/topics/transla…
The PhIP-Seq technique they used 'detects aabs against > 10,000 human proteins, enough to investigate nearly any autoimmune disease.'
A promising method for #MECFS / #LongCovid ?

. World Health Organization (WHO) Webinar on POTS and post #COVID19 condition ( #LongCOVID ) on Wed April 24 & Fri Apr 26

Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS) has emerged as a common presentation in post COVID-19 condition.

Join us to learn more. Register here: iecho.org/public/program…

Whatever the intent, the political effect of “low cost” symptom management trials like this (targeting only the most mildly affected #LongCovid patients), is that they act as a smokescreen to hide the lack research into effective treatment. 1/2

'Parents accused of faking their children's #LongCovid ' The Times and The Sunday Times
'It's the default belief if we can't explain it, it must be psychological... it's absolutely shocking'- Binita Kane
'LongCovid is going the same way as #ME '-Dr Nigel Speight

#pwME #ME cfs #FND #MedTwitter

The % of US adults currently experiencing #LongCovid jumped from 6.7% in Feb-March to 6.9% in March-April, according to U.S. Census Bureau cdc.gov/nchs/covid19/p…