Thread by @doctorasadkhan

Both acute & #LongCovid are a thrombotic vasculopathy that can affect any part of the body. #COVID19 is NOT a ‘viral pneumonia’. Dr Jaco Laubscher told us this 2 years ago. Had the world listened, hundreds of thousands of lives could have been saved. 1/n

https://twitter.com/loscharlos/status/1500906588311220224

Had we treated acute COVID properly with bedside TEG & appropriate anticoagulation, so much #LongCovid could have been avoided. I remember being ridiculed by colleagues for sending people with high d-diners home on anticoagulation in the presence of normal CTPA 2/n

With appropriate attention to hypercoagulability in the early stage, ICU admission & death can be prevented. So many lives have been lost due to medical orthodoxy & arrogance & therapeutic paralysis whilst awaiting multicentre RCTs 3/n

We have also condemned millions to the dreadful suffering of #LongCovid- again, where is the urgency for rapid treatment trials of anticoagulation? We already have the drugs. History will not judge us kindly 4/n

In case you haven’t caught this already, listen to Dr Laubscher explain it all beautifully in June 2020. He is #TeamClots unsung hero. We owe him a huge debt. If only we had paid attention to him at the time.

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