Thread by @elisaperego78

This is @TheLancet report on the pandemic failures. #LongCovid a disease that has disabled, made ill for prolonged periods of time, and even killed hundreds of millions of people is only mentioned in a small piece at page 57. Which doesn't address the gravity of the disease

https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1570245594878455809

#LongCovid is not exactly "emerging" as we've known about it since 2020. It was known before the pandemic a great percentage of SARS survivors never recovered or were ill for years #longSARS. Failure to mitigate SARS-CoV-2 spread and to support survivors is a huge failure

The short report has some good points. But is also highlights "post traumatic stress disorder", "mental health" and an incomplete list of symptoms more than the devastating cardiovascular, metabolic, multi-organ etc. sequelae that we know are a key facet of #LongCovid since 2020

The report also mentions SARS-CoV-2 being on its route to becoming endemic. We don't have any real evidence this is happening. SARS-CoV-2 remains a pandemic virus. It is also an unstable virus, which is spreading and evolving at a truly worrying pace, leading to local epidemics

Failure to recognize the real burden of SARS-CoV-2, the severity of #LongCovid, and the needs for mitigations are yes! another failure. I would hoped a @TheLancet commission on "pandemic failures" and "moving forward" would have been more accurate in its reporting

Also, another problem in my opinion is to speak about #LongCovid only after three months of symptoms is something I don't support. People especially if with severe symptoms need an immediate diagnosis and treatment. Not waiting three months.

Another issue with the piece: it fails to underline the patient made origin of #LongCovid. The disease was identified by patient themselves. Isn't it a huge failure in pandemic policy that people left at home to live or die on their own, had to do the work of health bodies?

Sorry to self-cite, but here a piece by co-authors and I from 2020. We openly mentioned cardiovascular, thrombotic and multi-organ sequelae, and the enormous costs of #LongCovid. We knew. Isn't it a huge failure not to have acted on this information?

wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/5-224