Yes. Even well-meaning medicine is poison when incorrectly applied to the wrong person.

Watching Resia Pretorius presentation at #unitetofight2024 makes me wonder whether amyloid fibrin molecules are leaking from blood vessels into extra vascular space and clogging lymphatic system. Leakage stems from vascular permeability secondary to inflammation & vascular damage

Is Covid still deadlier than the flu in 2024?

The short answer is yes!

In 2024, Covid remains deadlier than flu.

New research from my team in JAMA

By Yan Xie Taeyoung Choi and Ziyad Al-Aly, MD

A thread with the correct links🧵

jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

Look at me just living my life. Traveling. Socializing. Having fun. Often that involves masking in situations that are higher risk not just for COVID but a bunch of things you don’t want to catch. Protecting your community and yourself isn’t a zero-sum game. Get it together.

Long Covid's Cruelest Symptom: Homelessness

Rolling stone warned about long Covid and homelessness two years ago! Imagine the private healthcare bills on top of not being able to work. Our NHS is in collapse. #WearARespirator rollingstone.com/culture/cultur…

“I had my fifth positive test for COVID on Jan. 1, and while I wasn’t extremely sick, my recovery felt slow. In the first week of March, there was no more denying the condition I previously doubted was real.” #LongCovid aspendailynews.com/opinion/marolt…

My partner has Cov1d again. 3rd time in 8 months. And he changed his whole life to avoid it for me. Masks indoors w/ a fit tested respirator, avoids crowds, quit teaching, no restaurants/movies, no socializing in ppl’s homes other than a few times a year when he travels w/o me.

This is also the only time he’s tested positive. We know he had it the other times bc of symptoms + close contact w/ a known case.

People taking zero precautions must be getting Cov1d 3-4 times a year, even if they think they’ve never had it bc they don’t test/the tests suck.

Slide presentation: 'Is #MECFS CURABLE?'
- Dr. Ron Davis
'The bottom line is that I believe it is'

x.com/openmedf/statu…
Slide 1

“There is hope that we can reverse the damage” of #LongCovid
Great trials are starting.
Fascinating, optimistic presentation by the inspirational Prof. Akiko Iwasaki
#UniteToFight2024

'‘Chronic Lyme’ Patients Are Getting Left Behind, but Long COVID Research Is Sparking New Hope'

'For decades, infection-associated chronic illnesses like chronic Lyme have been “woefully understudied,” says David Putrino, PhD...'

wellandgood.com/chronic-lyme-d…

Remember all the white tongue photos we were seeing during and after covid infections? 'We show that presence of replicating viruses in the acinar cells of salivary glands compromises production and secretion of histatin-5, a key host-produced antifungal peptide.'

Prof. Dr. Carmen Scheibenbogen presented at #UnitetoFight2024 : “We have evidence for
(early) inflammation, endothelial dysfunction and hypoperfusion, muscle damage, mitochondriopathy and a role of GPCR autoantibodies” in #pwLC who develop #MECFS .

More from #UniteToFight2024 with Resia Pretorius, here showing the difference seen in red blood cells between a healthy person and red blood cells covered in microclots from a p/w #LongCovid .

#TreatLongCovid
#CureLongCovid

'The NIH needs a dedicated (visionary) person who can sit on top of the emerging trends in these illnesses and dedicate resources appropriately'

Prof. Pretorius reminded that very conservative estimates of 5% suffering long term sequelae from #Covid infections #LongCovid equals 100s of millions of patients. #IACC #IACI #NIH #UniteToFight2024 (2/2)

Dr Proal Amy Proal, PhD says: “WE KNOW WHAT TO TRIAL. We need the support [resources].” #NIH #LongCovid #IACC #MECFS [emphasis added ; overcome with optimism]

Dr Proal reminds that with Post Acute Infection Syndromes/Conditions/Illnesses #IACC #IACI , “every well-studied pathogen is connected to a chronic syndrome in a portion of infected patients.” #LongCovid #MECFS

4) Keep developing sensitive assays to identify pathogen proteins in fluids
5) Set the stage for treatments that SUPPORT (not suppress) the immune system (2/2) #IACC #IACI #LongCovid #MECFS #NIH

Amy Proal, PhD ‘s Research Priorities for #IACC #IACI 1) Stop saying it's a mystery 2) Collect and study tissue samples in addition to blood and other fluids - 3) Use high resolution imaging to understand infectious and inflammatory activity in the brain & spinal cord (1/2)