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Dr Elisa Perego

@elisaperego78

Apr 17

A kind reminder to policymakers etc. making promises now, that you have *already* let Long Covid patients down. You're too little, too late. Long Covid was openly recognised by WHO in August 2020. People have died since. You might even have participated in "let it rip" dynamics

The Covid pandemic is one of the greatest health disasters in modern history. A preventable disaster, I'd suggest. An estimated 20-30 millions have died. An estimated 400 millions have experienced #LongCovid. We knew how dangerous SARS-CoV-2 was in 2020

osf.io/preprints/soca…

Despite extensive knowledge on the dangers of SARS-CoV-2, including Long Covid, we had in 2020, this dangerous SARS virus was left to rip. There was no appropriate enough answer to the Long Covid crisis. Of course, research is extensive, but access to diagnostics and care, isn't

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Dr Elisa Perego

@elisaperego78

Apr 17

A kind reminder that the persistence of SARS-CoV-2 has been posited and increasingly demonstrated (at least in a number of subjects) since 2020—1. Long Covid patients and patient-researchers have been at the forefront of this. Policymakers are late.

While we need to fully elucidate the impact of SARS-CoV-2 persistence (with different manifestations) on human health (especially in the long-term), the precautionary principle should have been in place, including in view of data emerging since 2020, and data on SARS-CoV-1 (SARS)

Policymakers were alerted early about the possibility of viral persistence; and research on the topic has only been accruing over time. They should have acted much faster, both in terms of preventing new infections; and planning how to treat patients when persistence is proven

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Dr Elisa Perego

@elisaperego78

Apr 16

https://twitter.com/gershbrain/status/1779492850117247312

We're in the most devastating pandemic in one century, with an estimated 20—30 million dead; an estimated 400 millions to have experienced #LongCovid; immune dysfunction; and a surge in other infectious diseases. It's not over. This is a key reason why people are so often sick

https://twitter.com/gershbrain/status/1779492850117247312

Bibliography as usual. Excess mortality from Covid at ~30 million dead. Additional estimates in such range (20 to 30 millions) by WHO, and others (a review in Perego 2023b, attached)

wsws.org/en/articles/20…
osf.io/preprints/soca…

Estimated cases of #LongCovid at 65 to hundreds of millions by Davis et al 2023; Altmann et al. 2023; Chen et al. 2022; WHO 2023. A review in Perego 2023b, attached

osf.io/preprints/soca…

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Dr Elisa Perego

@elisaperego78

Apr 13

Usual reminder that "living with Covid" policies need the erasure and minimization of #LongCovid to be effective. People wouldn't accept themselves and their children to be be mass infected with a SARS virus if they were fully aware of the risks

People with a glaring conflict of interest, such as minimizing of the pandemic threat, have all the interests in minimizing/erasing #LongCovid, as they could be held accountable for the damage their policies caused to the global population, including children

A glaring case in point is Australia's Queensland CHO Gerrard, who deemed infection with SARS-CoV-2 "necessary" in late 2021 (with devastating consequences) and recently claimed we should stop using the term #LongCovid altogether. Conflict of interest

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Dr Elisa Perego

@elisaperego78

Apr 7

The desperate fight by policymakers like Queensland's CHO to drop the term #LongCovid is evidence of the term's power and efficacy, and of our activism. They wouldn't need to fight so hard and try to mobilize the press otherwise. I'll keep using the patient made term Long Covid

Policymakers and pundits who have been involved in minimizing the dangers of SARS-CoV-2 infection, obviously, have a great interest in dropping a term, Long Covid, which has been so useful in drawing attention to the long-term damage from this infection

We were right in 2020. We are right now. They have been wrong across the pandemic. They're wrong now. SARS-CoV-2 infection is far from benign. Covid is far from being a two-week disease, harmless in the 'young and healthy", "mild" and harmless in children

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Dr Elisa Perego

@elisaperego78

Apr 6

https://twitter.com/Karl_Lauterbach/status/1776549467866431747

No. #LongCovid is a multi-system, heterogeneous disease entity which is proven to be disabling, life-threatening, even fatal in a subset. "Light rehabilitation" won't treat it. Please do better, especially if you're a public figure with degrees in medicine/adjacent fields

https://twitter.com/Karl_Lauterbach/status/1776549467866431747

Choosing to highlight a flawed, small-scale study on #LongCovid from a big platform, rather than the thousands of research papers that document severe pathology down to the cellular level, is wrong. Policymakers and medical professionals must do better.

People with Long Covid deserve better, including because so many are victims of erroneous pandemic policies. Policies brought on us by the same policymakers who are now trying to minimize the severity of the disease, including it's potentially fatal nature (scientifically proven)

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