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Sep 4 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
“New research from the University of Kentucky shows compelling evidence that the cognitive impairments observed in #LongCovid patients share striking similarities with those seen in Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.” Screenshot from a article headline from MedicalXpress reading “Alzheimer’s-like brain changes found in long Covid patients” Date: September 2, 2024
"EEG patterns in.. patients resemble those seen in early neurodegenerative diseases”

"These similarities may be due to shared issues such as brain inflammation, astrocyte activity, low oxygen levels and blood vessel damage" #LongCovid medicalxpress.com/news/2024-09-a…
“The idea that COVID-19 could lead to Alzheimer's-like brain changes is a significant development.”

"People don't usually connect COVID-19 with Alzheimer's disease," Jiang said. "But our review of emerging evidence suggests otherwise." #LongCovid
“The research reveals that the cognitive issues caused by COVID-19 reflect similar underlying brain changes as those in dementia.” #LongCovid

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Aug 29
“This is a public health crisis for children,” Dr. Rachel Gross, at NYU Langone

“Gross said the U.S. will see the long-term impacts of experiencing #LongCovid in childhood for decades to come.” Salon article headline reading “long Covid is a ‘public health crisis for kids’ expert say” “New research sheds light on the growing bird in the pediatric on Covid while it continues to be ignored” Date: August 25, 2024
“Dr. Dean Blumberg, chief of pediatric infectious diseases and associate professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of California, Davis, told Salon he agreed #LongCovid is a ‘public health crisis’ for children.” salon.com/2024/08/26/lon…
“This is one of the first large-scale national studies to do research related to #LongCovid across the entire lifespan, with a particular focus on children and understanding the differences in long COVID in different aged children,” — @RachelGrossMD
Read 6 tweets
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Aug 27
“Never before have so many Americans redrawn their relationships with work as result of 1 public-health crisis”

“People at height of careers in finance, technology & healthcare are operating without clarity on when, or if, they can resume the paths they once laid out” #LongCovid Screenshot of Wall Street Journal article headline reading “long Covid knocked 1 million Americans off their career path”
“#LongCovid has pushed around 1 million Americans out of the labor force, economists estimate. More than 5% of adults in US have long Covid, and it is most prevalent among Americans in their prime working years.” wsj.com/health/wellnes…
“About 3.6 million people reported significantly modifying their activities because of #LongCovid in a recent survey by the @CDCgov.”
Read 13 tweets
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Aug 14
“Despite the dire impact of #LongCovid on individuals and society, I fear that many are still unaware of the danger,” says @VirusesImmunity, professor of immunology at @Yale “There is an urgent need to provide.. treatment for people living with long COVID.” Screenshot of the article headline reading “long Covid is a $1 trillion problem with no cure. Experts plead for government governments to wake up.” Date: August 9, 2024
“More COVID infections mean more cases of #LongCovid. And LC is already exacting enormous toll on both the people & economies of the world.
Those are words you aren’t hearing from many government bodies. But, researchers say, the evidence tells the story”
fortune.com/well/article/l…
“In a @NatureMedicine review this week, @zalaly and several other top researchers lay out a difficult truth: #LongCovid has already affected an estimated 400 M people worldwide.. at an economic cost of about $1 trillion annually—equivalent to 1% of the global economy.”
Read 16 tweets
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Jul 17
“What we're seeing is that there's a unique signature of vascular inflammation in #LongCovid that is distinct from acute COVID. And it has to do with endothelial apathy and platelet dysfunction."
medscape.com/viewarticle/sc…
Screenshot of a Medscape article headline reading “Scientist Homes in on Long Covid’s Neuro impacts”
“The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke recently awarded her a 5-year K23 grant to support her ongoing study: Magnetic Resonance Imaging Biomarkers of Post-COVID-19 Cerebral Microvascular Dysfunction." #LongCovid
“Using advanced MRI techniques to identify microvascular dysfunction biomarkers in the brain, McAlpine — a specialist in the neurologic sequelae of COVID-19 at @Yale — hopes to unearth and better understand the pathophysiology behind neurologic issues in #LongCovid”
Read 12 tweets
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Jul 13
“The finding was even more stark when compared to six control samples.. T cells were activated in these scans, they were concentrated where you’d expect – the liver, kidneys, & other places known to help clear inflammation. In the #LongCovid patients, they were everywhere.” Screenshot of the IFLScience article headline: “Signs of Covid virus in the body years after original infection” “At a time when there’s desperate need for new clinical trials studies like this helped to point the way”
“There has been a large amount of inferential data supporting a view that a key factor underpinning #LongCovid may be some people do not properly clear the virus & harbor reservoirs of COVID in their tissues,” @Daltmann10 but “it’s been hard to prove.” iflscience.com/signs-of-covid…
@Daltmann10 “They find patterns of long-term T cell activation that may help to explain patterns of #LongCovid symptoms,” he said. “For example, people with respiratory symptoms showed long-term homing of activated T cells to the lung.”
Read 4 tweets
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Jun 24
“I have spent my career studying infectious diseases that fall under the heading of neglected tropical diseases. Now I have a neglected disease — #LongCovid — an incurable (for now and for me) disease.” statnews.com/2024/06/18/lon…
“I was infected during Omicron wave.. It crashed through my kid’s kindergarten class and swept our household along with it. My acute infection wasn’t scary.. nothing in comparison to when I had dengue fever.. And then I just never got better.” #LongCovid
“We had none of the ‘underlying conditions’ that may indicate increased risks of poor outcomes from Covid (and which have been used throughout the pandemic to allay fears that dangerous outcomes would only happen to “others”)
Read 9 tweets

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