NHS Doctor | Animal rights activist | Long Covid Research Initiative | helping to make invisible illness VISIBLE | advocate for #ME | #LongCovid | #CleanAirBill
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Feb 19 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
I qualified as a doctor at the start of the pandemic. Like thousands of others, I volunteered to start work early to help with the pandemic effort. I contracted #Covid is November 2020 caring for Covid positive patients in absence of RPE and airborne protections. I was .. 🧵
subject to huge viral loads.
A few days later I tested +ve. I was naive. As a fit 34 yr old I expected to recover. I experienced a flu-like illness for 2 wks. Barring a lingering fever in wk 3, I thought I had recovered.
I returned to work in day 4. Lasted 2hrs on ward round.
Feb 6 • 22 tweets • 5 min read
No one chooses a life bed-bound.
Educate yourself on #ME.
#ME is a horrific condition that has been wrongly psychologised since the 80’s.
It fails to feature on the medical curriculum & yet its the most debilitating & neglected neurological-immune conditions of our time.🧵
The psychologisation of #ME is one of the biggest medical scandals of the 21st century.
The - now widely discredited - PACE trial, funded by the department of work and pensions, psychologised the condition.
Dec 8, 2023 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
It’s ‘just a cold’ until you
> have a stroke
> start hallucinating
> lose your hearing
> develop cardiac chest pain
> drop your O2 levels
> become tachycardic at rest
#SARSCoV2 #CovidIsNotOver #LongCovid #CleanAirNOW
> have a heart attack
> develop a PE
> can no longer sleep
> start losing your eyesight
> develop tremors
> find yourself in constant pain
> live with crushing headaches
May 15, 2023 • 8 tweets • 6 min read
1/ I don’t know which medic needs to hear this, but post-exertional malaise (#PEM) is NOT fatigue.
You cannot announce 1 in 10 infections with #SARSCoV2 lead to #LongCovid and that we are heading for a mass disabling event, then declare the pandemic over in the next breath.
Nonsense @WHO. #SARSCoV2 continues to circulate at high levels & remains a serious risk to health. 🧵
Today: (absolute nonsense btw) 👇🏽
1/ After 10 yrs study, 100k in debt, I graduated as a doctor in spring 2020 at the start of pandemic.
I remember watching the heartbreaking scenes in Italy. A wave of infection was making its way around the world, soon to hit the UK.
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2/ On March 24, 2020, then-Health Secretary Matt Hancock announced that all final-year medical students who met the General Medical Councils (GMC) outcomes to graduate were to be fast-tracked through graduation to be made available to help on the wards.
Mar 11, 2023 • 27 tweets • 9 min read
1/ The UK is descending into fascism. Our democratic freedoms are being threatened. Everyone living in the UK right now should be deeply concerned. Here’s why… 🧵
2/ Drumming up hate between the population and controlling the media to influence how people think (media propaganda), was a tactic employed by nazi Germany.
Nov 21, 2022 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Reality check:
1. You can catch Covid multiple times.
2. Reinfections are common, not rare.
Nov 14, 2022 • 8 tweets • 7 min read
1/ The Department of Health holds no data on long COVID in NHS staff and has no intention of collating this data minhalexander.com/2022/11/12/the… 🧵
2/ “Frontline NHS staff injured by COVID19 whilst trying to keep services afloat despite government mismanagement of the pandemic, have been treated with disdain by the government..
Sep 23, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
1/ We are seeing an increase in strokes, PEs, DVTs, MI, even amongst the previously healthy. The risk factor? Covid infection. We know infection with SARS CoV-2 causes a pro thrombotic vasculitis. 🧵
2/ You would be mistaken to believe being young and healthy protects you from the harms of #COVID19.
Mild infection has been shown to lead to brain damage and significantly increase risk of cardiovascular and neurological complications. nature.com/articles/s4159…
Sep 22, 2022 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
1/ Clear evidence of a circulation problem in #LongCovid. We know #SARSCoV2 causes a pan-vasculitis & hyper coagulability. Every long hauler whose blood has been tested has been +ve for microclots
⚠️Medics, pls note, a normal D dimer does NOT exclude the presence of microclots🧵
2/ A report by Household Pulse Survey (HPS), conducted by Census Bureau in America, found 16 million working-aged Americans (18-65 years) currently have #LongCovid.
Of those affected, between 2-4 million, are unable to work due to the severity condition.
Sep 21, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
And for the albeists out there, ‘vulnerble’ includes YOU. You are mistaken to believe being young, fit or healthily will protect you from the harms of #SARSCoV2. Covid doesn’t discriminate. #CovidisAirborne#CovidIsNotOver#WearAMask😷
Mild Covid cardiovascular damage: A large-scale study of 150k people showed even a mild case of COVID-19 can substantially increase a person’s risk of cardiovascular problems - some 20 types in all - for at least a year after diagnosis..
Sep 18, 2022 • 4 tweets • 5 min read
A vaccine is a drug. And as with any drug, it carries risk of adverse reaction.#Vaccineinjury needs to be discussed openly & honestly. Failure to do so will erode trust in future vaccination programmes. Patients who performed there civic duty should not be abandoned or gaslighted
1/ A word of warning. It doesn’t matter on which side of the fence you sit - left or right - everyone living in the UK should be concerned right now. Current government have already removed our right to peacefully protest. Now they want to remove our #HumanRights 🧵
2/ The LCRI is a collaboration between Long Covid patients, researchers, and clinicians to rapidly and comprehensively study the topic of SARSCoV2 #viralpersistence in Long Covid and the general population.
Aug 14, 2022 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
New preprint in @medrxivpreprint which found circulating levels of components of #SARSCOV2 (viral RNA and spike protein) are associated and may contribute to the development of #LongCovid 🧵
1/3 In the first six weeks of Long Covid, I experienced neurological sleep apnoea. At night, I would stop breathing. My body would wake me from sleep, or the edge of sleep, to remind me to breathe.
2/3 At the time, I suspected brainstem involvement and recognised I was severely unwell even if no one else did. We now know Covid has a predilection for the brain stem, a region where ACE2 receptors are plentiful.
Jul 16, 2022 • 8 tweets • 10 min read
🚨NHS workers, you have a legal right to work in safe environments.
Section 44 of the Employment Rights Act 1996 states employees are entitled to down tools & stay off work on FULL PAY if their employer refuses to make their work place safe. Demand #FFP3.🧵 @TheBMA2/ It is wilful negligence to expose healthcare workers to a known deadly airborne pathogen. All public-facing NHS workers must be equipped with #RPE, including #FFP2#FFP3, given #COVIDisAirborne. @H_S_E
Jul 16, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
🚨Removing the right to peacefully protest.
🚨Media propaganda.
🚨Advocating to remove human rights (these laws protect us all).
Be warned: This government aren’t just incompetent, they are slowly eroding out freedoms and basic human rights. #Fascism#Dictatorship 🧵
