Thread by @danaparish

I have no doubt that #LongCovid is the most catastrophic, mass-disabling event in history & our negligent fed officials will suffer no consequence for those millions of wrecked lives.

With a nice stash of Paxlovid ready to go & rising portfolios, they don’t care abt us.

https://twitter.com/abraarkaran/status/1493457511491399682

Even going, healthy people are getting:

brain, lung, vascular, & cardiac damage, diabetes, new-onset psychiatric disorders, dementia-like illness, seizures, strokes, even after a “mild“ or asymptomatic cases!

This is a global calamity! We are doing nothing to stop it!

Oh, & it’s not rare! Data ranges, but approx 50% get #LongCovid.

Vaccines do not prevent it in approx half (at best). Bad odds!

So when you roll your eyes at ppl who are wearing N95s still, it’s Bc we know these realities & want to keep our organs & bodies & lives intact.

I will keep saying it, until v early treatment is widely avail, we won’t be safe from longterm, chronic illness in face of this virus.

I speak to many concerned scientists who do not know how to adequately convey this message since gov wants to ignore this, & media complies.

Of note: there is often a latency period between infection & all Hell breaking loose.

This means you can get through a week or two of “mild“ symptoms & wake up months later in heart failure, or have a stroke, or not be able to breathe.

Covid can be a silent ticking timebomb.

And this 👆🏻, specifically, is one of my biggest concerns since it is not being conveyed to the public, it is common, & devastating.

You do not have to submit to getting this virus without having early treatments available first. It is not inevitable. Wear N95s indoors.

For the second time, we have learned NOTHING from the wreckage that was SARS1.

https://twitter.com/danaparish/status/1463379297029132290