New data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor: The number of people with a disability dramatically increased & hit a new record of 34 million in June 2023. #LongCovid is a mass disabling event.

“When we look at people infected with the most recent, omicron variant, & were vaccinated we are still seeing a pretty substantive rate of #LongCovid — about 10%” “.. probably more people who had mild disease with no comorbidities who have LC than reverse” — Leora Horwitz, NIH

THERE ARE NO TREATMENT PLANS FOR #LongCovid Plan to lose your career, income, social life, ability to do basically anything you used to do. That's the current plan.

🛑I wrote about what “fatigue” really means for people with long COVID and ME/CFS, and why this profoundly debilitating symptom is so often misunderstood and trivialized. (This piece also covers PEM.) 1/ theatlantic.com/health/archive…

The waste in RECOVER, funded for $1.15 billion in December 2020. 85% of the funds (now "almost fully obligated") were not used for clinical trials to test treatments statnews.com/2023/08/09/lon… betsy ladyzhets 📊 STAT This funding has "been largely wasted" —Putrino Lab

That most Americans are still unaware of this should be a scandal, and is a real failure of our political, media, and medical systems. ‘It’s mild!’ ‘It’s just like the flu’. In fact:

Also, in case it’s not clear, anybody can get #LongCovid — regardless of vaccination status, prior infection, health status, age — and especially regardless of your perception of the threat of long covid.

Gone. They're all gone 💔 An entire family, Tamar, Yonatan, their 6 yr old daughters Shahar & Arbel, and their 4 yr old son Omer. They were all slaughtered by Hamas terrorists who infiltrated Kibbutz Nir Oz. Just because they were Jews! I don't have the words. Only tears ...

Gosh—Did something happen starting around 2020-2023? “There are more Americans who say they have serious cognitive problems — with remembering, concentrating or making decisions — than at any time in the last 15 years, data from the Census Bureau shows. The increase started

"The cumulative burden of #LongCovid continues to rise. Some 200 million people are predicted to develop the condition over the next decade, comparable with the number who currently have heart disease." newscientist.com/article/mg2603…

Doctors say that to understand the fatigue of a person with a chronic illness, a "normal person" would have to stay awake for three days straight and then try to function. But yes please continue to tell me you are just as tired as I am.

The information designer @giorgialupi has been living with long Covid for more than three years. “Every morning, I wake up in my Brooklyn apartment, and for two seconds, I can remember the old me. The me without pain, the me with energy,” she writes. Read: nyti.ms/3RGHo9b

More than 16 million Americans are suffering from long COVID. Too many of them have had their symptoms dismissed and ignored by their doctors, their media, and their government. This must stop. We must address this crisis now. usatoday.com/story/opinion/…

🎙️SO many mic-drop moments from my latest w top #LongCovid expert/ researcher, Mt. Sinai’s Putrino Lab 🔥🔥🔥 Here, he shares the average pt in his LC Sinai clinic is: ✅ 38 y/o & previously healthy ✅ vaccinated ✅had “mild” acute infection ✅ many pro athletes/ military

Thank you Bernie Sanders for continuing to help raise awareness about #LongCovid. It is a massive health crisis that is not going away on its own.

On the front page of USA TODAY The U.S. must not abandon people with Long Covid!!!! Featuring Sawyer , and comments from Putrino Lab and me Thanks to Karen Weintraub and Eduardo Cuevas for this piece! usatoday.com/story/news/hea…

When many people state that lockdowns caused the deepest depression they’ve ever experienced, just a reminder that many disabled people are still in lockdown, four years later. Isolation is a form of torture. I want to live in a world where disabled people are wanted in society.

The rate of people experiencing #LongCovid has jumped to 6.8% of all US adults, up from 5.3% just four months ago. That's 1 in 15 adults, and is the highest it's been since 2022. We can reasonably expect a future increase from January's wave. cdc.gov/nchs/covid19/p…

« In the earliest days of the AIDS crisis, America ignored the problem, even though people were dropping dead by the thousands. We’re repeating the mistake now with long COVID. Millions are suffering, but the government has largely turned its back » nj.com/opinion/2024/0…