Thread by @elisaperego78

Thanks to Italy's press agency of pharmacists for publishing the research and advocacy note @MartaEsperti (@longcoviditalia) and I wrote on #LongCovid in occasion of #LongCovidAwarenessDay

rifday.it/2023/03/16/gio…

We underlined 15 March has been chosen by patients for patients to advocate for #LongCovidAwareness. We remembered Long Covid has been a term and a concept defined by patients from early 2020. We remembered the WHO recognized Long Covid in August 2020, and Italy in 2021

We underlined we have now a lot of scientific data on acute and #LongCovid (see PubMed). We noted Covid and Long Covid can basically hit all organs and body systems. We underlined the relapsing-remitting, sometimes progressive, and at times subclinical pathology in Long Covid

We underlined the need for striving for full social inclusion, a dignified life and care for all #LongCovid patients (in our note with a focus on Italy). We underlined the need for more research to fully elucidate the pathophysiology and find better treatments and a cure

Thanks to @LCawarenessInt for organising #LongCovidAwarenessDay #LongCovidAwarenessMonth #LongCovidAwareness and to the #LongCovid community to take part

We shared our note integrally in a document here (@longcoviditalia)

https://twitter.com/LongCovidItalia/status/1635755976069373954?t=TYBqBVY0N_Lt6_JA3TJQ6g&s=19