Thread by @elisaperego78

#LongCovid is an heterogeneous disease with multiple manifestations that might range from subclinical to fatal. It can basically affect all organs and body systems. Long Covid was openly recognized by the WHO in August 2020 after intense advocacy from Covid survivors

The first descriptions of #LongCovid came from social media like Twitter. People in early hotspots were often left at home with no medical support in collapsed healthcare systems. They took on social media to raise the alarm about the real nature of Covid

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Rather than being a "short" respiratory disease, dangerous only in the "old and sick", as said in many media and by many policymakers, Covid was a prolonged, multifaceted, multi-system disease that could hit badly even those deemed to be at "low risk"

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The information Covid survivors were sharing on social media, like Twitter, were increasingly corroborated by data coming from hospitals, which recognized Covid as a complex disease entity where "the lung were ground zero" but not the end of it

science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Today, the repository for research papers PubMed renders over 350,000 entries for Covid-19. Covid is one of the most studied diseases in history, especially if we consider the short time frame it has been here

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=covid+19

Many of such publications on Covid provides an hint to the long-term effects of the disease. There are thousands of publications on #LongCovid alone, including pathophysiology. Patients need better than symptom-based studies especially as regards clinical case definitions