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@1goodtern
Nov 2, 2024 • 11 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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Minimisers:
"If Covid dysregulated the immune system, why aren't we seeing an increase in opportunistic infections, eh?!"

The opportunistic infections: Graphs showing the rise of: Drug resistant Kleb, E Coli, Enterobacter, Citrobacter, Other Crypto Hominis Crypto Parvum Rare Crypto Shigella Whooping Cough Legionella TB Listeria Mycoplasma pneumoniae Polyomaviruses
The UKHSA have the gall to say that some of these outbreaks only seem large due to improved testing, when testing rates for them actually *decreased*.

Don't listen to their spin. Look at the big picture.
And all the little pictures.
Data from here:
gov.uk/government/pub…
And here:
gov.uk/government/pub…
While we're here, there's no immunity debt to crypto parvum or hominis.

You know what there is though?

There's immunity damage that allows them in.
Also worth noting:
Some of these trends were in operation before Covid, but have increased further since.
And yes, some of these infections are in perfect sync with Covid waves, and some... follow in perfect sync *afterwards*.
Here they are with labels highlighting the years for which there is data available:

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And here's what they look like with the same timescales on every graph. Image
And here's an extra version with Strep A notifications, Measles, and Hep D: Image

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Apr 8
So it's now recognised that Long Covid is probably costing the world economy about a trillion a year in lost productivity.

You're reading that right.

So what should we do about it.
1) Reduce new infections by reducing transmission.

A) Clean the air in every public space now.

This is far easier than it sounds:
CHUMV (you can say it Chumvee):
CO₂ monitoring
HEPA
UV
MERV
VENTILATE
Read 21 tweets
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Apr 8
Here's a quick personal story.

Twenty something years ago, I picked up a mystery infection that hammered my system and left me with all sorts of health problems.
I'll come back to some of those bits in a mo, but here's the point of the story:

After a while, I discovered that I'm ok with exercise as long as it's a very small increase of something that I'm used to.
(this is not an 'all you need to do to get better is exercise' thread, and it's not a prescription of exercise to people with any chronic illness, I'll explain that more later too)
Read 38 tweets
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Apr 6
I did an experiment two weeks ago.
I posted a request in two very similar fb groups, asking for advice in one on how to support 'someone with Long Covid', and in the other 'someone with a complicated post-viral condition'.

Four observations about the replies:
Fewer people engaged with the long covid one.
The replies that were made to the long covid post were less sympathetic, even though the description of the symptoms was word for word the same.
Read 11 tweets
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Apr 2
When you have a chronic health condition, it can be hard to explain to people without a chronic health condition what it means.
You say, "I have muscle pain", and they say, "oh yes, I did the London marathon and all my muscles hurt for two days".
You say, "I can't sleep", and they say, "oh yes, I was out at a concert last night and didn't get home until two. I only had five hours".
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Mar 31
Another quick dive into the NHS staff sickness absence data.

This gets nuts pretty fast...
The NHS shares sickness absence data for different groups of staff.

Most of these staff groups include people of every age. Image
For example you can be a nurse from 22 to retirement age.
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Mar 28
You may have thought that the chatter out of schools about kids having developmental problems was bad so far…

But this autumn, Reception will welcome kids born in late 2021… whose mothers caught Covid while pregnant… kids who have themselves caught Covid in every wave since.
I work with three nurseries, and, let me tell you, schools and society are in for an even worse jolt than the ones they've had so far.
I know one family where the mum caught Covid when they were trying for a baby, caught it again when they were expecting, and then the baby caught it when they were just four weeks old.

The most obvious developmental problems in that child are neurological.
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