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Dec 4 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
We were saying there was going to be a tidal wave of #LongCovid almost three years ago. It was particularly evident if you were in an early covid hotspot, with healthcare and social systems collapsing under unleashed SARS-CoV-2 spread. It's not a new story.
A bit tired of "experts" in the news and other outlets presenting #LongCovid as a "potential future disaster". Long Covid was openly recognized by the WHO in August 2020 following intense advocacy from people suffering from the disease. We have known for almost three years
Of course, we have extensive evidence of other viruses causing long-term health problems (e.g. HIV, EBV, Ebola virus, dengue, poliovirus, etc.). I'm not even going into the evidence about the first SARS and sequelae #longSARS
This pandemic has been an ongoing catastrophe
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#LongCovid including with mentions of the WHO meeting and the severity of the pandemic emergency published in 2020 already

wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/5-224

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
On SARS and related complications and long-term health effects, a thread of mine with more references and comments

#longSARS

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Dec 5
#LongCovid is the result of SARS-CoV-2 infection. SARS-CoV-2 is the virus which causes covid, a disease estimated to have killed 15 million people in the first two pandemic years. We can't be complacent about this dangerous SARS virus and its short- and long-term complications
We need crystal clear messaging about the risks of SARS-CoV-2 infection and mode of transmission ("airborne"). We need policy makers to be crystal clear about the damage inferted by covid to the human body, which is proven by thousands scientific of publications.
We need policymakers to make very clear that covid and #LongCovid can affect basically all organs and body systems, like the brain, liver, kidney, gastrointestinal tract, cardiovascular system, and the immune system, to name just a few. This is why covid/LC has so many symptoms
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Dec 3
“Influenza is running around across Italy”

—Il Fatto Quotidiano

“We see children, some with interstitial pneumonia and in need of oxygen, only some need hospitalization. There is chaos”

—Gianni Di Stefano, regional secretary, FIMP, in the Umbria region

ilfattoquotidiano.it/2022/12/03/lin…
@MeetJess
@LauraMiers
@tigresseleanor
@LongCovidKids
@ClareRayner6
This is about a different Italian region than I shared yesterday, which was about Lombardy and Milan in particular. Lombardy is mentioned here as being under the waters, too
Covid is also growing throughout Italy but it's poorly discussed in the news
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Dec 3
A few too many people for my liking with "flu-like illness" and pneumonia. Coming across different ages and social groups— including prominent individuals, and famous people in the entertainment industry
Whatever the cause is, massive outbreaks of infectious diseases in the ongoing covid pandemic are crippling our healthcare. We risk to loose our basic access to timely and adequate care, with the exception of the privileged and the well off
Entertainer Nick Cannon hospitalized with pneumonia

h/t @MeetJess and others

people.com/health/nick-ca…
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Dec 3
There is a huge convergence of interests in presenting #LongCovid as a "fatiguing syndrome" and some "vague symptoms". This is not the case: Long Covid comes with prolonged dysfunction and injury across multiple organs and body systems. This includes the cardiovascular system
#LongCovid can affect basically all systems and organs, although with variability across individuals: liver, lung, kidney, immune system, gastrointestinal tract, blood vessels, endothelium, heart, nervous system and brain, just to name a few. We know this since 2020 and 2021
There is a huge amount of scientific evidence on acute and #LongCovid which are/is among the most studied diseases in human history. Anyone speaking of a "mysterious" disease is wrong, or not up to date with the evidence. Covid has massively accelerated research in biomedicine
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Dec 2
"They have fever, dry cough, sometimes violent. The little ones, up to 1 year, may have bronchiolitis and need oxygen. We hospitalize the most severe."
Lombardy's pediatric emergencies, Italy, are overwhelmed by children with respiratory infections.
milano.corriere.it/notizie/cronac…
"Our structure is under duress. We have an average of 90 daily admissions at our emergency"
—Giuseppe Bertolozzi, Director of Emergency at the De Marchi hospital (Policlinico). Milan and other Lombardy cities are experiencing a severe wave of respiratory diseases in little kids
The Buzzi hospital, Milan, had 144 requests for help in the last 24 hours, 46 of which were for a yellow code, i.e. for "moderately severe cases—this puts a lot of pressure on us, we can't do our best"
—Gian Vincenzo Zuccotti, Director of Emergency and Pediatrics at Buzzi
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Dec 2
Looking forward to talk about #LongCovid at the PANSOC
—Centre for Research on Pandemics & Society— webinar series @CASOslo on 16 March 2023
I will speak about “Long Covid: history, research, future challenges.” Thanks @jesdimka for the kind invitation

uni.oslomet.no/pansoc/
A lot of other interesting talks in the spring PANSOC webinars for those interested in present and past epidemics/ pandemics, epidemiology, and human health across different societies and periods @jesdimka

In my talk, I will address the rise of #LongCovid as an international patient-led research and advocacy movement in 2020— the latest research on the disease— and the role of Long Covid in a reassessment of viral-onset diseases and sequelae like #longSARS and (pandemic) #longflu
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