“On average, at least 45% of COVID-19 survivors, regardless of hospitalisation status, went on to experience at least one unresolved symptom (mean follow-up 126 days).”

A new study found nearly half of people still have symptoms.

A tsunami…where have I heard that before? leicestermercury.co.uk/news/health/ex…

Oh yes, July 2021: scientificamerican.com/article/a-tsun…

But “almost half” sounds like a lot, surely that’s a new figure?

Back in June 2021, we heard up to 10 million Americans are likely to get LongCovid.

We’re currently sitting at 24M (likely an undercount) with no end in sight. We spent a year hearing only 10%-30% will experience persistent symptoms.

May 2022: Experts were “perplexed” to find a majority a people would suffer from LongCovid. We still removed all public health measures & declared victory, while unmitigated mass (re)infection continues. thehill.com/policy/healthc…

“The priority so clearly isn’t public health — our healthcare system will be grappling with the fallout of mass infection for decades to come.

It’s economic performance.”

The ENTIRE burden is on individuals. There’s no help coming for the maimed. Everyone is on their own.

Who could have predicted?

“There’s no indication that the number of affected workers is decreasing as people recover: The share of employees officially out sick or working part-time due to illness, for example, keeps rising.” washingtonpost.com/business/mass-…

Here’s my very first LongCovid thread:

People are *desperately* ill, not considering Covid AT ALL. And if they don’t have a positive PCR test on record, their doctors won’t either.

Existing post-Covid patients have been valiantly trying to warn everyone. There’s no help coming, & there is no plan. We are on our own.