Thread by @loscharlos

Was invited back to @StanfordMed to present to their Infectious Disease faculty last week. Few comments stuck out:

“80% of our #LongCovid patients have his exact same story: young, previous healthy, mild case, & now severely debilitated”

“It’s a very different experience to hear about #LongCovid from a patient like yourself than it is to read about it in studies, it’s critical more physicians & researchers learn about this disease from the patient perspective”

Then lots of good questions around what doctors can do to improve approach to care ~ & lot of palpable anxiety/tension around the tsunami of patients they’re seeing & expecting. “#LongCovid clinics will not be a sustainable model of care.. need better treatment”

Lastly, an attendee of the meeting reached out afterwards saying their s/o had #LongCovid and was really struggling and asked to connect. I can assure you, everybody now knows somebody with this condition and they just don’t know it.

And also reminder: Your health prior to sickness should have absolutely nothing to do with your worth or the degree to which you deserve care and treatment. ~ I only share this about myself due to the overwhelming narrative that “young healthy people are immune to this virus”