“Right now, Berrent is focused on long COVID advocacy and convincing the CDC to mandate reporting of all breakthrough cases.
“We have to step in where nobody else is doing it, and that is ludicrous,” she said. “But if it’s necessary, then we’re here to do it.” #LongCovid@CDCgov
“In my opinion, CDC should be tracking all consequences of breakthrough cases, not just hospitalization and death,” Akiko Iwasaki, the Yale University immunology professor at the forefront of long COVID research, said in an email.” @VirusesImmunity@YaleMed
“Even mild or asymptomatic infection can lead to long COVID. Tracking this on a national scale would be very informative.” Iwasaki is one of the only experts to have stated outright that fully vaccinated people can still get long COVID.”
“While the NIH sits around and does their bureaucratic thing, people are suffering and they are dying,” said Berrent.
Because data matters... This will be my nerdiest thread ever... but important!
Keeping you all posted on our @Survivor_Corps polling on breakthough cases and how many are leading to Long Covid but are not being tracked because they weren’t hospitalized….
13 breakthrough infections were after Pfizer. 8 developed Long-term Covid.
10 breakthrough infections were after Moderna. One was hospitalized. 3 developed Long-Term Covid.
7 breakthrough infections were after J&J. One was hospitalized. 5 developed Long-Term Covid.
After surviving the concentration camps of WWII he faced a year of isolation w/ tuberculosis. It was his year of isolation that he credited for saving his life a second time and opening his mind to the world of poetry and literature.
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Samuel Pisar wrote in his memoir, “Thanks to tuberculosis, thanks to literature, I would be reborn once more.”
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