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@1goodtern
Oct 7, 2022 • 2 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Ten things twitter folks know about Covid that people on the streets don't.
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Jun 15
There are some people who would have you believe that vaccines basically all work the same for different infections, and all have the same effect, but that's not true.

Let me explain this as simply as I can:
Some vaccines are like *insurance*.

You are unlikely to get tetanus, but if you do, vaccination can turn a catastrophic outcome into something far less dangerous. It is protection against a *rare but awful event*.
Some vaccines are like a *firebreak*.

The measles vaccine doesn't just protect the person receiving it. When enough people are vaccinated, measles struggles to find new people to infect, so the whole community is protected, including babies and people who cannot be vaccinated.
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Jun 9
Much of the media coverage of worsening health boils down to this:
Gasoline can't have worsened the fire, because the fire had already started.
Covid infections don't have to *cause* a problem to make it *worse*.
If you already have lung cancer, then you catch Covid, your chance of survival drops.
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Jun 8
I had one of those really horrible conversations last week with someone who has had a string of new gut and bowel problems in the last year.

Every moment of the conversation a new alarm bell went off.

I came home and checked the charts.
Then I called them and asked if I could post something about it anonymously.
They said yes, so here it is.
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Jun 8
The biggest challenge around Covid and Long Covid communication is:

Why doesn't everyone get the same effects.
"Covid can damage blood vessels."
"Covid can affect the brain."
"Covid can disrupt immunity."
"Covid can trigger POTS."
"Covid can cause Long Covid."
People hear that stuff, then they look around and think:

"Well Dave had it twice and he's fine."
Read 14 tweets
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Jun 5
See how many of these you recognise:
➡️The biomarkers are inconsistent
👉Long covid is just a collection of vague symptoms
▶️Vaccination changed the risk, so old studies don't apply
♦️Patients are over-attached to biological explanations
➡️The symptoms are real, but that doesn't mean covid caused them
👉There's no unique biomarker for long covid
▶️This is somatisation
♦️Microclots haven't been proven
Read 25 tweets
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May 27
I've been thinking about this a lot since a woman in our community lost her unborn baby at 32 weeks while ill with a viral infection.

If you look at this chart, it's horribly obvious how much extra suffering viral infections have caused to pregnant women since 2020.

But... Image
But the huge spike in 2020/1, 2021/22, and 2022/3 hides a bigger problem.

That as of the latest data, viral diseases are now causing *three times as many hospital episodes as before Covid came along*. Image
I'm just going to gray those three years out to help you see.. Image
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