Thread by @WesElyMD

1/🧵The Haunting Brain Science of Long COVID
 
📍Here I use science to raise awareness of a growing public health nightmare hiding in plain sight
📍Matt & Barbara tell their stories
📍20 relevant medical articles
📍See 🧵unpacking science in Tweet #2
 
bit.ly/3ItiANv

2/🧵👇Here’s the science I included in the above @statnews piece

…one medical article after another, with take home messages about neuro #LongCOVID you can digest to keep yourself safe, find hope & teach other people what we’ve learned…

3/ Matt Fitzgerald’s story shakes me - a young engineer now disabled by #LongCOVID
 
“I feel like I’m underwater. When you talk to me, I can hear you, but my 🧠 doesn’t understand words. I can’t comprehend what you’re saying. I have no intellectual capacity to digest data.”

4/🧵👇Read about Barbara, who tells us:

“I walk down the hall & see dozens of pictures of family trips and feel like a ghost because I don’t remember any of them. Now I’m trying to figure out who Barbara 2.0 is going to be.”

5/ To unpack a harrowing true tale of chronic post-viral illness, check out @meghanor’s book #InvisibleKingdom - it’s a beautiful yet bold portrayal

6/fin
Matt & Barbara provide their hope:
🔹⬇️ your chances of getting infected by using #Vaxx + Masks in public indoor spaces
🔹If you get COVID take Paxlovid or another antiviral
🔹If you get #LongCOVID, work w LC clinic on pacing for PEM & cog rehabilitation as able

Pro Tip: 🥇
To stay up-to-date on #LongCOVID science as it unfolds, follow & learn from scientists who teach…here is a recent example:

And one more just out this week by @VirusesImmunity & @PutrinoLab in Lancet ID: