Thread by @DrEricDing

📍Millions of people continue to suffer from exhaustion, cognitive problems and other long-lasting symptoms of #LongCovid. New research offers clues, of the toll the illness takes on the body and why it can be so debilitating. 👇 #COVID19 #CovidIsNotOver
nytimes.com/interactive/20…

2) “Long Covid is different: A chronic illness with a wide variety of symptoms, many of which are not explainable using conventional lab tests. Difficulties in detecting the illness have led some doctors to dismiss patients, or to misdiagnose their symptoms as psychosomatic.”

3) “But researchers looking more deeply at long Covid patients have found visible dysfunction throughout the body.
Studies estimate that perhaps 10 to 30 percent of people infected with the coronavirus may develop long-term symptoms.”

4) “It’s unclear why some people develop long Covid and others don’t, but four factors appear to increase the risk: high levels of viral RNA early during an infection, the presence of certain autoantibodies, the reactivation of Epstein-Barr virus and having Type 2 diabetes.”

5) this is why we ABSOLUTELY MUST stop the cycle of infections. It’s not just hospitalizations and deaths but also debilitating #LongCovid for months and likely years to come.

https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1495761422869045252

6) “#LongCovid will be part of our future” says @mvankerkhove. It didn’t have to be this way.

@BorisJohnson’s actions today won’t help.

https://twitter.com/cleavon_md/status/1495865598290636801