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Jun 21 7 tweets 2 min read
1/ Please be wary of those minimising Covid harms. The study Prasad refers to in this tweet was poorly conducted.

Please know significant pathology is evident when the correct investigations are performed.
I’m sure most people would consider an MRI extensive. In this study, two long covid patients underwent neuro cognitive testing (questionnaire results revealed deficits in verbal memory and attention). They then underwent MRI imaging and a PET.
MRI of both patients was unremarkable.

PET imaging however showed ‘widespread’ and ‘profound’ neurological inflammation the brain. (The luminescent yellow & red is inflammation).
For a more thorough breakdown of the paper Prasad refers to please see this thread. It explains why the study was appalling.
Last week cases of Covid half a million. This week, hospital admissions are up 25%. news.sky.com/story/covid-19…
The government may have abandoned us, but I urge you to exercise caution. The virus is in the air that we breathe. To protect yourself, #WearAMask😷Especially when in indoor public spaces.

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Jun 22
1/ Public health messaging has failed to warn the public on:

➡️ Long term infection harms

➡️ How to protect oneself from infection

Given we’re at the start of a new wave, case numbers & rates of hospitalisation are rapidly rising, here’s a

⚠️ public health warning ⚠️

🧵
This message is important to everyone, but is especially pertinent to those who erroneously believe #LongCovid is ‘just tiredness after infection’ and it won’t happen to them because they’ve had it and ‘it was just a cold’
First let’s discuss #LongCovid.

Long Covid is a chronic, multi organ, physical condition, currently absent of treatment or cure.

Latest figures show 2M ppl in the UK are affected. 376K have now been unwell for >2 yrs. While some slowly improve, recovery is not guaranteed.
Read 27 tweets
Jun 19
Long Covid is no longer a mystery: Long Covid IS Covid. 👇🏼
We can learn from previous pandemics and emerging evidence.
Autoimmunity and abnormal clotting are likely downstream processes of #viralpersistence - whether that be in the form of intracellular viral reservoirs, viral debris or synthetic vaccine spike.
Read 5 tweets
Jun 17
💥NEW PREPRINT from Harvard: #viralpersistence #LongCovid

Persistent circulating SARS-CoV-2 spike is associated with post-acute COVID-19 sequelae

🧵

medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
2/ Plasma samples were collected from a cohort of 63 individuals previously infected with #SARSCoV2, 37 of whom were diagnosed with #LongCovid (PASC) & 26 recovered.
3/ In the PASC group (n=37) , blood samples were collected multiple times up to 12 months after first positive result.

In those individuals recovered (n=26), blood samples were collected up to 5 months post diagnosis.
Read 14 tweets
Jun 15
I see @TorbaySDevonNHS have abandoned their legal & professional responsibility to keep patients safe.#CovidIsNotOver Case & hospital numbers are steeply rising. As we enter the 3rd wave of the yr, I urge you to put your #FFP3 mask back on & demand your trusts invest in #CleanAir
Exposure to #COVID19 can cause neurodevelopmental delay
Read 4 tweets
Jun 15
1/ I politely and urgently request for the name of Dr Amy Proal @microbeminded2 to also be added. If she is willing, it is essential Dr Proal also be given a seat at the #ME round table. @LucyChappell2 @sajidjavid
2/ Dr Proal is a strong ally of patients with #ME. Having experienced the illness herself, she has a unique understanding of the condition which she is using to inform hypotheses.
3/ Alongside others, she recently published pioneering work which showed #microclots in the blood of those with #ME.
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