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Jan 24 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
One in ten kids gets #LongCovid. That should shake you to your core.
salon.com/2022/01/22/the…
"One study showed that as many as 52% of teens and young adults between ages 16 and 30 may experience lingering symptoms 6 months after having COVID." @Salon
"Doctors and researchers are anticipating more #LongCovidKids cases stemming from the omicron variant, given the statistical magnitude of the spread, and the increase in pediatric infections."
📌 "The majority of children developing long Covid had only mild cases of the initial SARS-CoV2 infection, and were healthy pre-COVID with no underlying conditions. A significant portion had asymptomatic cases.'

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"Don't be fooled into thinking kids — your kids — are not going to be the ones affected," Sheila Symons said. "It could happen to anyone."

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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 😢
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Nov 19, 2021
Covid is also a neurological disease 🧠 Covid is also a neurological disease 🧠 Covid is also a neurological disease 🧠 Covid is also a neurological disease 🧠

Counting the neurological cost of COVID-19 | Nature Reviews Neurology nature.com/articles/s4158…
“By analysing data from 55 countries, they identified 41 neurological manifestations that can occur in conjunction with COVID-19.

Up to one-third of individuals with COVID-19 were estimated to exhibit at least one of these manifestations.”
“Without proper care and treatment, patients with these neurological manifestations might be permanently debilitated.

Moreover, the continuation of neurological symptoms in long COVID could overwhelm already fractured health-care systems.”
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Nov 8, 2021
Champions like ⁦@NickGuthe will ensure that⁩ Covid cleans up the organ donation system like HIV for the blood industry.

🙏 ⁦@RoniNYTimes⁩ & ⁦@nytimes⁩ for carrying out Nick’s promise to ⁦@GirltoMom⁩ to use her story to save others. nytimes.com/2021/11/07/hea…
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Nov 7, 2021
A thread 🧵 on #LongCovid and chronic diseases…

Could long covid unlock clues to chronic fatigue and other conditions? - The Washington Post ⁦@washingtonpost⁩ ⁦@FrancesSSellers⁩ washingtonpost.com/health/2021/11…
“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.”
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Nov 1, 2021
.@NewYorker published a piece on #LongCovid last month that drew significant and well deserved criticism. In response to our fierce objections to @DhruvKhullar's reporting they devoted today's ENTIRE Letters section to responses from me and @NickGuthe. newyorker.com/magazine/2021/…
My Letter to the Editor:

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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