If by 'growths on my eyeballs' she means pterygium, then here's the chart for that in England.

https://twitter.com/BirdieBittern/status/1993721423659995527

If, on the other hand she means conjunctival deposits...

Here's that bad boy:

😮I want to smash something.
I've just stumbled across the official NHS coding guidance for U07.3 - 'Personal history of Covid-19' - and it left me on the floor.

🚨When paired with the data on the number of times it is currently used, it is a huge unknown national scandal. The ICD-10 codes are the codes that are entered into NHS hospitals activity databases.
So when someone gets healthcare, it's for a reason, so they look up the code for that reason, and put the code into the database.

There's absolutely zero doubt in my mind that things have changed.

But *how*?

I've been sharing a lot of these graphs over the last month, but each chart looks at the *small* picture.

I have a big picture brain.
So here's a thread about the *big* picture. You can see in this image charts with loads of different *shapes*.

They all chart the same time span.
They're all from the same geographical area and age range.
They all chart the same type of data - 'hospital episodes'.

What on earth is going on.

Seriously.

Where are the doctors raising the awareness about this?
Where are the journalists screaming?

What is wrong with everyone?

Hospital episodes for babies with heart valve problems in England. Two to four year old infants with heart problems.

Yesterday I started posting a long breakdown of women's health issues that appear to have seen a change of trend since the population embraced widespread repeat covid infections.

This is part two. You don't need to have read part one first.

They're just collations of charts in no particular order, although there is running commentary and some observations along the way, so it is well worth reading that one, and I'll be posting a third too.

https://x.com/1goodtern/status/1993047994879688862?s=20

In light of the fact that repeated studies suggest that women are more likely to be develop Long Covid, I think it's really important to know what's happening with the different health conditions that specifically affect women.

This is a painful thread at times. Older working age adults...

Covid infection affects every part of the body, every body system, and every body function, but it *loves* the lungs.

So how does that play out in hospital episode data... And Parainfluenza virus (also not flu) pneumonia...

If Covid infections damaged the heart and *persisted* in the heart...
I would expect there to be an increasing failure rate in heart transplants. Oh, would you look at that.

There are a lot of prostate glands in the news.

Men don't normally like talking about them until something goes wrong, and then they like talking about them even less.

But it's time to talk about them. Acute prostatitis diagnoses have more than doubled suddenly.

Acute prostatitis is a sudden infection or inflammation of the prostate. It causes fever, pain, trouble peeing, and a very unwell feeling.

For years, people who have been reading the science have been warning that covid infections cause immune system disruption.
Not in a mysterious hand-wavy way.
In a very specific, well-understood biological way: Covid infections damage B cells and destabilise antibody production.

I had a catch up with an old friend yesterday.

He works on WHO programmes to reduce the global burden of long term illnesses.

This is probably a more interesting thread than I thought it was going to be. We met decades ago, when my main thing was engineering interventions for transmissible disease, especially:
Clean water
Clean air

10 things most doctors don't know anything about: 1
How transmission of infections happens

I don't think enough people understand the significance of the difference *and* connection between *dysregulation* and *deficiency*. Dysregulation is a *going out of control*.

Eye problems are one of the most common after-effects of covid infections, and one of the most common issues of Long Covid - but they're not talked about much.

This is part two of my thread working through eye conditions that have become *much more common* since Covid struck. Little step up in older adults.

Stan Laurel said your eyes are the windows to your soul.

I don't know about that, but I do know that your body is really complicated, but your eyes... yeah, your eyes are something else. An orbital disorder is a problem affecting the eye socket. It can involve swelling, pressure, pain, double vision, or inflammation around the muscles and tissues that move the eye.

I've written before about the confusion Covid causes when it affects different age groups in different ways.
I'd like to just illustrate that by talking about the way the body handles potassium. Potassium balance relies on four major systems:
Kidneys.
Hormones.
Acid base control.
Cell integrity.

Oh.
I suddenly get it.

They *don't know* that they're avoiding diseases spread by water, blood, food, faeces, because society is set up to do most of that work for them *without them knowing*. Most people move through life inside a cocoon of invisible infrastructure that quietly blocks whole categories of disease transmission.

For the last month I've been asking headteachers and staff at seven schools a simple question:

"Are repeated covid infections affecting pupil health?" I've been asking the question in person, face to face, while chatting to them about other issues, including staffing problems and attendance.

Three quick things about this year's flu wave. Has it actually 'kicked off' yet?

Look at 2019 and 2024.
They have one kicking off point.

Interestingly it was the same week in both years - the week kids go back to school after half term break.

From there it skyrockets.

I've been sent the text below, which is an extract from a proposed article that didn't make it to publication.
The writer asked me to share it.

For American readers: categories like Motor Neuron Disease include things like Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis/ALS/Lou Gehrig's disease. "There is growing concern among clinicians and researchers that COVID-19 infection may be contributing to a striking rise in rare but serious neuromuscular conditions such as motor neuron disease (MND) and spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) among younger adults.

I've been watching soccer players here get ACL injuries with painful regularity over the last five years.

I've had two ACL injuries myself, and some times of year I develop a painful ache just below and to the side of my knee that feels like a small ball of pure pain.
🧵 So whenever I hear about someone going through this, I feel a strong personal empathy.