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Apr 18 • 3 tweets • 3 min read
Antivirals in the treatment of Long Covid must urgently be trialled. @NIHRresearch @NIH @NIHDirector

Increasing evidence of #viralpersistence & anecdotal reports of LongCovid symptoms improving & resolving on antiviral therapy can no longer be ignored.

reuters.com/business/healt…
Make no mistake, Long Covid is a public health emergency.

With 1.7 million people in the UK currently affected - many housebound/bedbound & now entering their third year of illness - there is no time to lose.

The situation is time critical.
#viralpersistence #chroniccovid #clearthevirus #Paxlovid4LongCovid @research_long

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Mar 31
I am a doctor who contracted covid caring for covid patients at work. Failure to provide RPE left me and my colleagues knowingly exposed to deadly airborne pathogen. Previously fit and well, no co-morbidities, I am a shell of my former self. 🧵 @LaylaMoran @AppgCoronavirus 1/10
Diagnoses so far include, encephalitis, central sleep apnoea, myopericarditis, bilateral sensorineural hearing loss, tinnitus, dysautomnia, POTs, PEM/PESE. 14 mths into this illness, I am still housebound. 2/10
After dedicating the last decade of my life to becoming a doctor & placing myself into significant debt, I now face the threat of dismissal. 3/10
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Mar 20
Very disappointed @IndependentSage has aired such dangerous advice & misinformation given by @BWDDPH

Long Covid is not ‘rapid deconditioning’. One does not have a RHR of 60bpm and ‘rapidly decondition’ to a resting rate of 140bpm in the space of 2 hrs. 🧵
As a doctor with Long Covid, I can tell you that despite being housebound 14 months my RHR has improved from 140bpm to 90bpm.
Patients with Long Covid - many of whom exhibit PEM/PESE, cardiac impairment, exertional oxygen desaturation & autonomic dysfunction and orthostatic intolerances - need to be very carefully rehabilitated.
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Feb 20
My personal experience of Long Covid and thoughts on the governments plan to ‘live with COVID’

Key messages: 🧵

news.sky.com/story/doctor-w…
The governments strategy to ‘live with COVID’ is a strategy of denial. Scrapping of protections (free lateral flow, masks, all but ending tracing, mandatory isolation) will allow for the unmitigated spread of COVID which is both dangerous and irresponsible.
Not only do government plans fail to follow the science, they also fail to follow the money.
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Feb 9
Key messages.

Long covid is not psychosomatic.
Serious pathology is evident when the correct investigations done.

Many long haulers have been unwell now for nearly 2 years; we are unlikely to get better on our own.
All long haulers whose blood has been tested has been positive for microclots

1 in 10 people will experience Long Covid. Prevention is key.

Long Covid patients present differently, with different, but often overlapping, symptoms.
Things we have to ask ourselves:

What is driving microclot formation? A damaged endothelium will do this.

We know the virus can directly damage the endothelium
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Feb 8
@NIHRresearch? What is going on?? What is actually going on?? 1.3 million people in this country have Long Covid. Meditation, yoga, home-based exercises, mental health support will not help myopericarditis, sensorineural hearing loss, visual loss, clots, microclots and the rest
We do not need to WASTE over 1.1 million to answer this question.

Talk to any long hauler. We are not in recovery. There is an ongoing pathological process which needs urgently addressing.
We have waited patiently. Some people have now been unwell for two years and counting. People are deteriorating, they are not getting better.
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Feb 8
RPE MUST be worn by NHS workers. Employers who fail to provide RPE are leaving NHS workers exposed to a known deadly airborne pathogen and in my eyes, are liable. @UKHSA @BOHSworld @uhcw_inf_con
I am a doctor who contracted covid whilst caring for covid positive patients. I was only provide with droplet PPE, leaving me exposed to infection. Staff who raised their concerns about PPE were admonished.
14 months later I am still unwell with Long Covid. My diagnoses include neurological sleep aponea, encephalitis, pericarditis, bilateral sensorineural hearing loss, tinnitus, dysautomnia and POTs
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