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Sep 8 • 2 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
“Jeffrey Siegelman, MD, contracted COVID-19 in August 2020 and, 3 months later, published a paper online in JAMA about his experiences.”

“I reflect on that paper… and I thought that 3 months was a long time, and here I am, 5 years later, and I still have symptoms” #LongCovid Screenshot of an article headline from Medscape medical news, reading: “Long COVID Hitting Doctors and Nurses Hard” David Brzostowicki September 03, 2025
“A recent study published in Frontiers in Public Health, which surveyed 1678 US healthcare workers, found that 7.7% reported experiencing #LongCovid. Another study.. involving 445 healthcare workers, reported a prevalence of 9.44%” medscape.com/viewarticle/lo…

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Aug 23
“A growing number of scientists believe the SARS-CoV-2 virus may be subtly altering our immune systems. If correct, their hypothesis will change how we understand everything from RSV to shingles to sepsis.”

“It’s certainly impacting our immune health & probably.. overall health” Screenshot of BMJ article: Feature Covid-19 Why scientists are rethinking the immune effects of SARS-CoV-2 BMJ 2025; 390 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.r1733 (Published 19 August 2025) Cite this as: BMJ 2025;390:r1733
“SARS-CoV-2 is linked to ‘an unusually high level of *indiscriminate* killing of T cells’.. reminiscent of measles, which can cause immune amnesia by depleting memory B cell, leaving people vulnerable to pathogens they were previously immune to.” bmj.com/content/390/bm…
“‘Immunity debt,’ a theory to explain the global surge in non-covid infections since pandemic restrictions were lifted, is increasingly being challenged by emerging evidence.” bmj.com/content/390/bm…
Read 21 tweets
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Aug 21
“The research coming out is not quite breaking through,” she said. “But you have to see the problem to solve the problem.”

‘From what I can tell, no one is explaining the risk of #LongCovid,’ which may now be the top chronic illness in children” Screenshot of desert news headline: “How vulnerable are kids to long COVID? Families, doctors take experience with long COVID to Congress to ask for help” Published: Aug 18, 2025, 9:00 p.m. MDT
“The American Academy of Pediatrics and the @NIH estimate long COVID may have affected up to 5.8 million children, since research says between 1 in 10 to 1 in 5 of the children who recover from COVID later develop #LongCovid.” deseret.com/lifestyle/2025…
@NIH “Dr. Jeanette Brown.. and.. Dr. Alexandra Brugler Yonts… encounter #LongCovid daily in their professional lives. What does surprise them is the notion kids can’t get long COVID. They see it regularly… which Yonts calls ‘devastating.’”
deseret.com/lifestyle/2025…
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Aug 14
Incredibly exciting diagnostic tool potential — @ImmunoFever MIT team is doing nailfold capillaroscopies on #LongCovid patients before and after a NASA lean test, and said the results have been incredibly striking compared to controls.

My results were very abnormal !
They said they’re seeing lots of signs of microhemorrhage, enlarged and shortened vessels etc, and it seems the white blood cells move way slower through the vessels. They take photos of all fingers and toes and upload them to software that analyses results in real time.
They said they’re hoping to get a case report out ASAP and they’re still dialing in the full parameters / standard — and hoping to get full paper out hopefully later this year. They were adamant about this being a potential outcome measure, end point and diagnostic !
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Jul 12
Pretty captivating piece:

“In 2008 she was diagnosed with MS.. she found her fatigue disappeared.. after she started using (the UV light box)”

“Whatever sunshine is doing to prevent myriad ailments, it’s a lot more complicated than getting the skin to produce.. vitamin D.” Image
“We don’t know what the golden molecule is; we just know it’s not vitamin D,” Hart says. “So you take a step back and give UV, which gives the skin a chance to make whatever it is.” scientificamerican.com/article/surpri…
“The problem in finding ‘whatever it is’ is that when you do shine UV light on the skin and take a peek to see what it makes, you discover a microscopic pharmacopeia.” scientificamerican.com/article/surpri…
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Jun 24
Incredible piece👇

"#LongCovid isn’t a problem until we can find no other explanation for why millions.. are unable to work, school performance & children’s health decline in unison, & no one can remember what it feels like not to be sick all of the time" yaleglobalhealthreview.com/2025/05/18/a-c…
"our bewildered response to crises like the LA fires tell us we may still be accustomed to addressing the climate crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic: as a question of how fast we can get back around to pretending like the problem is gone." #LongCovid yaleglobalhealthreview.com/2025/05/18/a-c…
"After all, the promised end to the pandemic has been more a matter of public relations than public health. The idea that a vaccinated society could 'return to normal' was predicated on scientists’ hope – since disproven – that vaccination would prevent infection & transmission"
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Jun 23
“EBV was for years dismissed as a mild rite of passage.. But that view has been changing rapidly since a 2022 study provided strong evidence EBV is a trigger for multiple sclerosis.. Researchers also believe EBV plays a role in.. certain cancers.. a hidden driver of #LongCovid” Screenshot of a article headline in Bloomberg, “The Silent Virus Behind Mono Is Now a Prime Suspect in Major Diseases Epstein-Barr virus, which causes glandular fever, was once dismissed as a rite of passage. Scientists now link it to cancer and multiple sclerosis.” By Jason Gale June 6, 2025 at 1:00 AM PDT
“Cohen and Durkee-Shock believe EBV may have an even broader impact. Studies suggest a connection to #MECFS, and researchers are now exploring possible links to #dementia.”bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
“Multiple sclerosis may work the same way. Scientists suspect EBV subtly alters the immune system over time, increasing the risk of misdirected immune attacks on the brain and spinal cord years later. A vaccine could be valuable even if it doesn’t completely prevent infection.”
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