Last week we had the first meeting on #LongCovid in Italy.
We were pleased to receive full support from Italy's Ministry of Health @MinisteroSalute, with a formal letter that used the patient-made term Long Covid.
#LongCovid is the term patients made to indicate the long-term symptoms and sequelae of #COVID19. Initial reports claimed Covid was a respiratory illness with estimated recovery in 2--6 weeks.
Patients built a global grassroot movement and successfully challenged this narrative.
Those with #LongCovid made key contributions to knowledge via multiple media, from Twitter to informal papers. Many of these risk exploitation/dismissal because they are outside the channels through which science is usually built
@MartaEsperti and I will then detail the rise of #LongCovid as a global movement of patient-led advocacy and research, which obtained formal recognition for long covid from the @WHO
⏩ long term symptoms in children (#LongCovidKids) can develop also after asymptomatic/pauci-symptomatic acute #COVID19 infection
⏩ 2.3% of sample developed #MISC (multi system inflammatory syndrome)
⏩ 1.6% of sample developed myocarditis: child ❤ can be affected
⏩ few rare new diagnoses of asthma
⏩ long term symptoms caused distress to a significant portion of #LongCovidKids patients
⏩ most patients did •not• have commorbities before #COVID19
Found this paper on Mast Cell Activation in #COVID19 interesting, at least in theory, because it links #MCAS to the multi-system inflammatory syndrome in children #MISC + blood circulation issues in capillaries