"As I've talked to people who are experiencing this, there are some who just find no peace. Their bodies are no longer under their control and these symptoms are creating a living hell for them," - @hmkyale 1/ #LongCovid@TODAYshow today.com/health/do-coro…
"I've talked to maybe five or 10 people who have contemplated taking their lives because the symptoms are so severe."
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"The idea for the paper originated with the harrowing experience of Heidi Ferrer, a television & film writer who "had severe manifestations of the sensations of vibrations" the authors wrote. She found the symptoms intolerable and died by suicide at 50 in May 2021." 3/ @NickGuthe
"Researchers at Yale School of Medicine and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine partnered with @Survivor_Corps, an online support group of 180K COVID-19 survivors, to collect the stories from people who reported such sensations."
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My husband took my kids to eat indoors at a restaurant tonight and... 🤯🤬🤯
OMG I've been out of town for two weeks and he just admitted to taking them to dinner indoors Every. F*cking. Night. I don't know whether to be angry 🤬 or cry 😢
Covid is also a neurological disease 🧠 Covid is also a neurological disease 🧠 Covid is also a neurological disease 🧠 Covid is also a neurological disease 🧠
“If a deceased donor may have had long Covid and tested negative for Covid, however, the organs would be taken, Dr. Kumar said: “If we start turning down everyone who has had Covid in the past, we’d be turning down a lot of organs.”
“Before she died, Ms. Ferrer chronicled her ordeal in meticulous notes left on her phone: “Covid toes” that made her feet so sore she could not walk. A tremor that made her body shake violently. Pain in every limb. Relentless insomnia and despair.”
“Could endemic covid leave millions disabled with long-haul symptoms every year, creating a growing public health crisis?”
“Maybe this is a chance for us,” said Krumholz, who is working with colleagues to design rigorous, broad-based studies. @hmkyale
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Among his fellow researchers is Akiko Iwasaki, a Yale immunologist and principal investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, who lists five hypotheses that she believes could explain the biological underpinning of long covid.” 2/ @VirusesImmunity@YaleMed
The New Yorker’s article on Long covid, in which I was a central subject, was a profound affront to everyone suffering the long-term sequelae of even mild and asymptomatic cases of covid-19 (“The Damage Done,” September 27th).
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The piece included no interviews with doctors or scientists directly investigating Long covid, and no interviews with patients battling the disease.
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