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@acrossthemersey
Aug 2 • 6 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
People get really worked up when there’s a suggestion that pro athletes absences or performance issues *might be due to COVID or LongCOVID, but when these athletes careers’ are ruined and COVID LongCOVID were key contributing factors, those same people have nothing to say.

1/ LeicestershireLive Ryan Bertrand explains how his Leicester City spell went wrong By Jordan Blackwell 12:28, 29 JUL 2025 UPDATED 12:45, 29 JUL 2025
Ryan Bertrand was a very good English Premier League player and English International. In 2021 he made a big move to Leicester and contracted COVID before the season started.

It kept him out for weeks despite the notion that athletes have superior immune systems.
He tried to return to training but suffered from persistent migraines which would stop training, which in turn caused him trouble regaining his fitness, paramount to a professional footballer. 6 weeks apparently and not feeling right, which led to a string of events…
He continued trying to play and tore his meniscus which required surgery. The expected time table was about a month, but the surgery didn’t go well, it got infected and he required 4 knee operations in total and after 18 months at his new club, he retired from football.
Did COVID cause his knee tear and subsequent infection & further operations? I have no clue, but I do know that suffering from LongCovid effects which ruined his fitness while trying to play through it sure did, and caused his career to end prematurely.
leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football…
I don’t expect any Americans to care if they’re not familiar with EPL but he was a very good player. I also don’t expect many British fans to care too much because to them he wasn’t “great.” I don’t really expect anyone to care at all because it was LongCOVID.

So, who cares?

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Aug 1
New Nature study shows SARS2 significantly elevates the risk of neuropsychiatric conditions including anxiety, mood disorders, cognitive impairment and psychotic disorders for up to 6 months.

“Alarmingly, even individuals with mild or asymptomatic infections face elevated risk.” Neuropsychiatric Risks Linked to COVID-19 Revealed BY BIOENGINEER - August 1, 2025
“Many risks peak within the first 30-90 days post-infection but persist markedly up to 6 months. This persistent risk underscores the necessity for continuous clinical vigilance and development of targeted surveillance strategies to identify and manage sufferers early.”
“The authors discussed implications for healthcare systems globally, highlighting the urgent need to equip neuropsychiatric services to handle surges in demand potentially triggered by the pandemic’s downstream effects.”
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Jul 31
LongCOVID is disproportionately destabilizing a generation already grappling with high rent, gig-based work, and fragmented access to healthcare.

It’s not just the virus they’re fighting, but also misinformation, financial insecurity, housing instability and social invisibility. Invisible Crises: Long COVID, Housing Instability & Health Misinformation Among Young Adults By John Mills - July 31, 2025
“Picture a young adult in their late twenties, formerly healthy, working full-time, and renting a small apartment in a shared house. After a bout of COVID, their symptoms never fully go away. Fatigue, brain fog, and recurring inflammation make it difficult to work consistently.”
“They fall behind on rent, begin skipping doctor visits due to cost, and soon start doubting their illness as online forums flood them with conflicting advice. It’s not just the virus they’re fighting.”

“This scenario isn’t hypothetical. It reflects an emerging crisis.”
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Jul 27
National Bureau of Economic Research revision shows 1.4M excess deaths in US adults 25 and older due to COVID between 2020-2023, increasing Social Security by $219 Billion. (Net positive of $156B)

“These findings provide critical insights for SSA projections & policy decisions.” The Effect of Us Covid-19 Excess Mortality on Social Security Outlays NBER Working Paper No. W33465 20 Pages Posted: 18 Feb 2025 Last revised: 9 Jun 2025 Hanke Heun-Johnson University of Southern California Darius N. Lakdawalla University of Southern California - Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics Julian Reif University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Bryan Tysinger University of Southern California - Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics
“The pandemic resulted in approximately 1.4 million excess deaths among individuals aged 25 and older between 2020 and 2023. These premature deaths mostly reduced future retirement benefits, which increased the Social Security fund by $219 billion.”
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
“The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in significant direct and indirect excess mortality among the US population, impacting the future outlays of the US Social Security Administration (SSA) Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) program.”
nber.org/papers/w33465
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Jul 26
A life and health actuary reviewed CDC numbers finding US mortality is 10.6% higher than in 2019.

Some may have a shorter life expectancy than they originally believed because of COVID, post-COVID health effects. It's not clear if US mortality might return to pre 2020 levels. ThinkAdvisor. First-Half U.S. Death Count Still 10.6% Higher Than Before COVID By Allison Bell News July 23, 2025 at 03:50 PM What You Need To Know • The number of first-half deaths is 5.4% lower than it was in the first half of 2024. The number is 10.6% higher than in the first half of 2019. • A veteran actuary says she thinks the increase is more than a statistical fluke.
This second part highlighted doesn’t really make a lot of sense. You are not being made stronger by whatever is causing the mortality. COVID and post-COVID, ie., LongCOVID, do not build you up. Cumulative infections do the very opposite.

One day we’ll get there. This seems to be coming from multiple causes of death, not only flu/pneumonia," Campbell said via email. What it means: Clients who want to protect their financial plans against longevity risk have a problem: It's still not clear whether and when U.S. mortality might return to the levels seen before 2020. An increase in the risk of death means some clients may have less life insurance than they need. Clients planning for retirement face an even more complicated problem: They might have a shorter life expectancy than they originally believed, because of COVID, post-COVID health effec...
“The U.S. death count was 13.8% higher for the first 13 weeks of this year than in the comparable period in 2019, and it was 6.9% higher for the second 13-week period of this year than in the comparable period in 2019.”
thinkadvisor.com/2025/07/23/fir…
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Jul 19
There was a post early stating that curcumin is a treatment for LongCOVID, which was totally ridiculous and ignorant to the fact that Turmeric-curcumin is the most commonly found supplement behind the significant rise in liver toxicity cases (hepatotoxicity) being reported. Original Investigation | Complementary and Alternative Medicine Estimated Exposure to 6 Potentially Hepatotoxic Botanicals in US Adults Alisa Likhitsup, MD, MPH'; Vincent L. Chen, MD, MS'; Robert J. Fontana, MD' » Author Affiliations | Article Information Findings In this survey study analyzing nationally representative data from 9685 adults, 4.7% of US adults reported exposure to 6 potentially hepatotoxic botanicals: turmeric was most frequently reported, followed in order by green tea, ashwagandha, Garcinia cambogia, red yeast rice, and black cohosh products. Botanical product users w...
Posts like that are reckless because people with LongCOVID, whether they admit to it or not, are desperate to try anything that might help.

Further, it can interact with medications and was singled out by my Dr. as one to avoid before starting Maraviroc.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…
Just a few weeks ago, an NJ woman was hospitalized for 6 days because of Tumeric and was a step short of full liver damage, liver failure and needing a transplant. Her enzymes were 60 times the normal level.
nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna2…
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Jul 16
Two new studies and the American Brain Foundation find that brain damage (brain fog) caused by SARS2 may be permanent and a link to Alzheimer’s by invading the central nervous system, damaging healthy brain cells via excess inflammation and increased amyloid plaque buildup. BESTLIFE News I Wellness / Fact-Checked Scientists Find Shocking Link Between COVID and Alzheimer's THE VIRUS CAN CAUSE BRAIN INFLAMMATION, WHICH, IN SOME CASES, BECOMES MORE SERIOUS. By DANA SCHULZ JULY 16, 2025
Article:
bestlifeonline.com/covid-alzheime…

Study in Frontiers:
frontiersin.org/journals/aging…

Study 2 in Science Advances:
science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

So anyway, good luck living with it and the August flu or whatever.
American Brain Foundation:

“Brain cells are directly affected during a neuroinflammatory response, and a person can experience temporary changes in mental and emotional processes—thinking, concentration, behavior, mood, fatigue, motivation, and so on.”
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