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Mar 14 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
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"We cannot move past #Covid in any serious manner until we have a treatment for #LongCovid." -Charlie McCone, person with #LongCovid and #LongCovid Advocate @loscharlos
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Long COVID is real.

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The World Health Organization defines Long COVID as: “The continuation or development of new symptoms 3 months after the initial SARS-CoV-2 infection, with these symptoms lasting for at least 2 months with no other explanation”.

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NACI and BC Provincial Health are not offering COVID vaccine boosters for the general public.
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Mar 10
There is a briefing today at 1:30 pm with Health Minister Dix and Dr. Bonnie Henry.

We'll be livetweeting it here. Please follow along!

We hope media will ask about the growing risks of Long Covid as well as BC's rationing of boosters, Paxlovid and data.
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For the last 3 yrs we've been trying to keep people from becoming infected with COVID.

Now VIHA is telling health care workers they don't need to test and can go to work even when still infected, potentially spreading COVID to vulnerable sick patients in hospitals and LTC.

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Please join us Friday, Feb. 3 at 1:30 pm for for
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At the World Economic Forum this week there were extensive COVID protections including HEPA filters, ventilation, UV, PCR tests and masking with FFP2 (N95 mask equivalents).

COVID positive participants could not attend events.

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