✔️COVID is vascular disease
✔️Diabetes is a vascular disease
✔️COVID causes a chronic immune disorder
✔️Diabetes is a chronic immune disorder.
✔️A diabetes drug with immune mechanisms may help both in unrelated ways
3/ This meta-analysis of 9 studies of ~40m people found 50% increased risk of DM type 1 (insulin dependent) & 70% higher risk of DM type 2 across age groups & sex - plus way more risk than general upper respiratory infections.
“Long COVID is so invisible. You get the worst of both worlds - stigma that you have mental illness & profound limitations of physical disease. The attitude from everyone is ‘Why can’t you power through this?’ Impossible.” 😞
8/fin #LongCOVID is a
▪️Chronic
▪️Immune
▪️Vascular
▪️Brain Disease
Stop doubting its existence.
There are people poo-pooing this problem & it’s wrong
Well characterized diseases like diabetes accompany the hard-to-pin-down aspects
Stay vigilant. Mask indoors and VAXX/BOOST
This graph is is from the Univ of Washington in St Louis MO and the creator is Elena:
🔹S protein viral sequences that are immutable, immunogenic & accessible to neutralizing Abs
🔹SARS viral membrane, envelope or nucleocapsid proteins & structurally hidden epitopes
🔹Vaccines based on T-cell receptor constructs
✔️75% Protection >1 Year
✔️Not just help w death & hospitalizations
✔️Protect vs symptomatic disease
✔️Less viral transmission
✔️Fewer adverse events like myocarditis
📍as a #LongCovid patient you admitted on embarking to Turkey for pheresis that
📍this Tx was an UN-established long shot
📍but your life w this syndrome had devolved
📍as a scientist you now found yourself willing
📍while others conduct trials
2/ I see your choices in seeking therapy for #LongCOVID as brave & honest w cautious expectations cognitively & physically.
Most importantly, you’re demonstrating hope & a desire never to give up.
Knowing you, @pamelarbishop, and calling you friend is a gift beyond measure.
3/ For anyone who chides a highly intelligent person for pursuing alternative approaches to solving health problems #medicine scoffs at, seek empathy & read these truth-telling books 📚