Thread by @KarlBode

TIL there's a segment of health and science reporters who apparently think long covid is a made up thing

probably news to somebody like @GenePark who is going through hell after a mild infection

@GenePark #lymedisease patients whose symptoms didn't fully resolve after 14 days of doxycycline (technically dubbed "post treatment lyme disease syndrome") went through the exact same cocksure bullshit from the peanut gallery, and I hope this ignorance isn't pervasive with long covid

the idea that an infection can damage the body in lasting and poorly understood ways should not be a controversial concept. and yet for a weird sect of cocksure peanut gallery observers, it somehow is

this tweet is also weird. she genuinely seems to think that people who believe in long covid are evidence-optional hysterics? it's a very strange and problematic take for a health and science reporter with 70K followers

I'm absolutely terrified for the tens of millions of long covid sufferers who have to navigate lasting illness in a country full of know it alls who'll dismiss them as hysterics and whose insurance companies won't help them

this is going to get very, very ugly