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10 Dec

1/ It has been exactly 9 months since I started having #COVID19 symptoms, which eventually worsened to the point where I wound up in the hospital, then on a ventilator.

Many folks ask: how am I doing now? Here's an update (thread).

#COVID #coronavirus

@NYTimes

2/ I'm doing very well, thank you. I don't really have any of the long-term symptoms experienced by so many #LongCovid sufferers (as discussed in, for example, this recent @NYTimes piece by @PamBelluck).

nyti.ms/340H1gJ #COVID19 #COVID

@LATimes

3/ It took me a long time to get here. As I wrote in July for the @LATimes, recovery from #COVID19 "is not like switching a light on or off. It’s like a dimmer switch, where the light gets brighter, then darker, then brighter again."

lat.ms/2ZSHWgf

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@DavidLat

10 Dec

@NYULangone

1/ ICYMI last week, this is a wonderful, heartwarming story about a #COVID19 survivor named Jeff Gerson who tracked down the 116 doctors and nurses at @NYULangone who saved his life, so he could thank them.

wbur.fm/3oA0HzR

@NYULangone

2/ Jeff Gerson and I were at @NYULangone at the same time. I arrived on 3/16, he arrived on 3/18, and we both stayed several weeks.

We have other things in common too. Before getting hospitalized and intubated, we were relatively healthy, 44-year-old males.

@NYULangone

3/ I'm posting Jeff's eloquent and heartfelt letter here. I suspect that many of the 116 doctors and nurses who cared for him at @NYULangone cared for me as well.

bit.ly/3qQidBZ #healthcare #HealthcareHeroes #COVID19 #COVID

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David Lat

@DavidLat

25 Nov

1/ Here's the latest chapter in my #COVID19 drama.

On Saturday, I tested POSITIVE on a #PCR test.

Was I reinfected?

(Note: this is a multi-tweet THREAD; please read ALL tweets in the thread.)

#COVID #Covid_19 #COVID__19 #coronavirus #CoronavirusPandemic

@NYULangone

2/ As some of you might recall, I had a brutal case of #COVID19 in the fall. I spent 17 days hospitalized at @NYULangone, including almost a week in the ICU on a ventilator.

#COVID #Covid_19 #COVID__19 #coronavirus #CoronavirusPandemic

3/ But the idea of having #COVID19 again surprised me, for a number of reasons.

First, reinfection is rare. And I was tested at the same time for #COVID antibodies, and I was still positive.

#COVID #Covid_19 #COVID__19 #coronavirus #CoronavirusPandemic

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David Lat

@DavidLat

22 Nov

1/ I got tested today for Covid-19 antibodies today. I have good news, and bad news.

#COVID #Covid_19 #COVIDー19 #covid19

2/ The good news: I was sick in early March, we’re almost to December, and I’m still positive for antibodies.

#COVID #Covid_19 #COVIDー19 #covid19

3/ The bad news (which isn’t really THAT bad, or surprising): my levels continue to decline, and I wonder if at some point soon I won’t be positive any more.

#COVID #Covid_19 #COVIDー19 #covid19

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David Lat

@DavidLat

17 Nov

1/ "How long might immunity to the #coronavirus last? Years, maybe even decades, according to a new study — the most hopeful answer yet to a question that has shadowed plans for widespread vaccination."

nyti.ms/2UAQztD

2/ "Eight months after infection, most people who have recovered still have enough immune cells to fend off the virus and prevent illness.... [T]hese cells may persist in the body for a very, very long time to come."

#Covid_19 #COVID19 #COVID

@apoorva_nyc

3/ As the article by @apoorva_nyc notes, "antibodies are just one arm of the immune system."

We also have B cells and T cells that "remember" the virus and fight it if it returns.

#Covid_19 #COVID19 #COVID

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David Lat

@DavidLat

14 Sep

1/ THREAD. Today I saw my pulmonologist for a follow-up on the state of my lungs, almost six months to the day when I got hospitalized with #COVID19 (3/16), and three months after my last check-up (6/8).

#COVID19 #COVID #Covid_19 #coronavirus

2/ The bottom line: although my lungs are not back to the way they were pre-COVID, overall they are looking good, and the damage shouldn't really affect my day-to-day life.

#COVID19 #COVID #Covid_19 #coronavirus

3/ First we reviewed my CT scan. The scan showed some lung scarring and "ground-glass opacities" (haziness signifying abnormality), but nothing major.

For any radiologists out there, here are the findings.

#COVID19 #COVID #Covid_19 #coronavirus

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