Them: Long Covid isn’t that bad, you should exercise. Them: I got covid again & I’m fine. Them, quietly: How long should it take to feel better? Them, desperately: Where is the best Long Covid clinic? Them, angrily: Stop holding out & tell me the cure!

🧵/1 We have just published our first ever Every Story Matters record. It is part of evidence in our third investigation: Healthcare systems (Module 3). Find out more via this link and the thread below 👇👇 covid19.public-inquiry.uk/news/fear-stre… #EveryStoryMatters

It is estimated that >100,000 people acquired a #Covid_19 infection in a hospital setting.

Many of us developed #LongCOVID as a result of a covid infection caught at work. This continues to be ignored by prof bodies. The silence is deafening. I ask professional bodies to watch this module & recognise the impact of #LongCOVID on members 🙏 #LongCOVIDAHPs #OneLessAHP

"Studies have shown the reduction in quality of life and the impact on the sufferer to be able to do the job they did before #LongCovid" #CovidInquiry #LongCOVID #LongCOVIDAHPs #OneLessAHP

Anyone is at risk of developing #LongCOVID

"Access to healthcare for those with #LongCOVID has been and remains variable in the UK" #LongCOVID #LongCOVIDAHPs #CovidInquiry #COVIDIsNotOver #CleanAir

"Clearly, healthcare workers were at a higher risk of exposure to #COVIDー19" #LongCOVID #LongCOVIDAHPs #CleanAir #COVIDIsNotOver

"Considering the long term consequences of the pandemic diseases need to not only be recognised at the start of the pandemic but planned for wherever possible" #LongCOVID #LongCOVIDAHPs #COVIDIsNotOver #CleanAir

🚨 Part of opening submission from #LongCovidGroups’ Barrister Sarah Hannett KC at #CovidInquiry: “Healthcare system has not committed even now to preventing #LongCovid. There is no treatment for Long Covid… And yet practitioners, patients & public are not adequately warned”

💥Clinically Vulnerable Families have arrived at the UK Covid Inquiry 💥 Adam Wagner has laid out our opening statement. He leads with 3 important words #CovidIsAirborne💨 1/ 🚨 IMPORTANT🧵

From @colourblind_zebra 'Small' tasks that can be really hard when you're chronically ill #chronicillness #chroniclife #ChronicPain #Spoonies #Spoonie #ChronicallyIll

I really miss actively doing hard things instead of passively enduring hard things.

🚨At #CovidInquiry #LongCovid is spotlighted by many, including by the BMA: “In the words of a Resident Doctor: I caught #Covid in March 2020… These were supposed to be the best years of my life but I’m spending them alone, in bed, feeling like I’m dying almost all the time”

Submissions from The BMA detail doctors experiences of #COVID & #LongCOVID "We had no choice but to work in an environment which we knew to be unsafe" "I caught #covid from a colleague in March 2020 & have been mostly bedbound since. My life as I knew it has ended"

Sadly, I look after too many now bedbound Doctors. Talented individuals in the prime of their lives, cut down by long Covid, days spent alone& feeling like they are dying, careers gone Now ignored by society. Any is too many when FFP3&ventilation exist ‘We knew it was unsafe’

Long Covid SOS UK Covid-19 Inquiry Could experts please stop saying 'after the pandemic' when we are still in one? I do think if you don't know we are still in one, (World Health Organization (WHO) did NOT declare the pandemic over), this is a fundamental point to get right for the credibility and utility of the entire Inquiry.

"We knew there was a world shortage of PPE...by autumn of 2020 they did have enough masks of the FFP3 type " Yet rules for PPE weren't changed because 'the virus hasn't changed' Dr Barry Jones highlights the consequences of downgrading the standards for PPE due to shortages

What do most people think happened to everyone who got sick during the pandemic (which, incidentally, hasn’t ended)? Do they think people with #LongCovid mysteriously got better?

“400m people worldwide are afflicted with #LongCovid, a debilitating & potentially lifelong, multi-system syndrome has only 7% reporting full recovery after 2 years… It seems the more we learn about long-term effects of #COVID19, the less politicians & policymakers seem to care”