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Dr Elisa Perego Profile picture
@elisaperego78
Aug 22, 2024 • 15 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X
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Covid isn't the "common cold". Covid=common cold/flu is an argument that some policymakers, pundits, and so-called "experts" have been trying to make since much earlier in the pandemic. They can do it directly, or indirectly. It happened with Omicron, for example. Some examples:
Tony Fauci in late 2021, Omicron, we likely learn to live with Covid like we do we do with common cold and flu (to note, Fauci has expressed varying and in my opinion inconsistent views on Covid, see various media)

businessinsider.com/fauci-american…
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Is Covid a common cold yet, the Atlantic

theatlantic.com/health/archive…
"Have you got the common cold or new Covid-19 variant?"

"Feeling groggy and worn down in the lead-up to the Christmas period is just something to expect nowadays."

2023

thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/national/…
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reuters.com/business/healt…
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independent.co.uk/news/health/co…
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(Please note there are myriads of news articles like these, more or less subtly linking flu, cold and Covid together. And note that many people read only an article's title. So, even in case the articles in question dig deeper, the first impression stays)

theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…
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usnews.com/news/health-ne…
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webmd.com/lung/news/2024…
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"Summer colds"

healthmatters.nyp.org/what-to-know-a…
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"Long colds"
bbc.com/news/health-67…
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My thread on the "long colds" study and how it was erroneously presented in the media

Here we're in mid 2021 ...

cbc.ca/news/health/wh…
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Jun 4
We must be crystal clear about a few points. Long Covid is not a "poorly understood neuroimmune disorder" with no biomarkers. It is a widely studied biological medical condition. Pathology spanning basically all body systems is well documented, with damage in situ across organs
Failure to acknowledge the broader, well-documented impact of SARS-CoV-2 infection on the human body is detrimental to advocacy and scientific accuracy. Denying there is vast evidence of biological damage visible through imaging, biopsy and autopsy is pseudoscience.
Denying that SARS-CoV-2 infection leads to a broad range of sequelae across organs and body systems is pseudoscience. Denying that we need a case definition for Long Covid which accounts for such a broad range of sequelae is harmful for our advocacy. People must do better
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May 20
Six years ago today the term #LongCovid was first used as a Twitter hashtag. A single tweet by a patient linked together a growing grassroots movement of people, who weren't recovering from covid. Across the world, we're still fighting for research and treatment of our disease Image
As I wrote one year ago, I feel strange posting this once again, after so many years of fighting, suffering, and building a global, grassroot mobilization of Covid survivors, who changed how Covid was understood and communicated to the public in 2020
Far from being a short, respiratory illness in most, dangerous only for the "old and frail", as they said in early guidelines, Covid was a prolonged, multi-system disease, which could be severe and even fatal also in the "young and healthy": #LongCovid
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Feb 9
"I’ve just been a bit ill this week and then yesterday’s match was so long and it just took it out of me [I had low energy]".

Tennis star Emma Raducanu opens up on illness after "brutal Transylvania Open final defeat"
share.google/oE25vk7wubmLYG…
After a strong run, tennis star Emma Raducanu struggled a lot in the final of the Transylvania Open, which she partly attributed to illness "So for today I just felt like energy-wise that I didn’t really have much energy. It was really difficult but again Sorana played so well."
"It was obviously really tough.”
Raducanu said "suggest[ing] that her health had taken a downturn in the days leading up to the final, saying: “I think Sorana played a great match for sure, and I’ve kind of… yeah, just been kind of dealing with some health… "
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Jan 20
"I was still ok 10 min before the match"

There are concerns over a possible gastrointestinal virus spreading at the top Australian Open in elite tennis. Star Flavio Cobolli suffered a shocker early defeat, while being debilitated by sudden symptoms.

ilgiornale.it/news/tennis/vi…
Another player apparently affected is Luciano Darderi, who still managed to win his match, as he started to feel really unwell only towards the end. His GI symptoms were reportedly aggravated by medication he had to take for some injury.
World number 22 Cobolli admitted he was so ill he would have withdrawn, had the tournament been less prestigious. He started to feel unwell just before or at the beginning of his match, which he lost in the end.
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Oct 27, 2025
"No further delay should be acceptable."

Proud to co-author this #LongCovid declaration to demand urgent action to fully recognise, treat and prevent Long Covid

with @LCawarenessInt @winslow_la @TogetherWeMask @longcovidaragon @TheWHN
@COVID19persist1

longcovidriseup.eu/lc-declaration/
"Long COVID is a new complex chronic condition caused by SARS-CoV-2. Born in 2020 from the lived experience of patients, the term broke the early myth that COVID-19 was either a brief mild illness or a rapidly fatal disease."
"[the term #LongCovid] sparked a global grassroots movement demanding recognition and research. Long COVID is a vascular, chronic multisystemic condition caused by a virus that challenges medicine and public health in unprecedented ways."
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Sep 26, 2025
SARS-CoV-2 infection is a significant risk for cardiovascular health. Cardiovascular sequelae and manifestations are a key facet of #LongCovid. Patients deserve care
A thread with research studies

#CovidHeart
#LongCOVIDHeart
#LongCovidAwareness #LaRAGEauCoeur
@winslow_la
Cardiovascular disease as part of Long COVID: a systematic review

academic.oup.com/eurjpc/article…
Cardiovascular outcomes in long COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis

frontiersin.org/journals/cardi…
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