I have been seeing the same. #COVID19 is a serious vascular disease.

NHS Confederation Chair Victor Adebowale on Question Time:
Q.Does Britain have a sick note culture?
A. No… It’s cruel…2m people have #LongCovid , a recognised illness as a result of #Covid …very rarely met someone who doesn’t want to work… We need to stop using performative language.”

POTS is very real and an invisible illness, meaning there are many things you cannot see.

You can’t see the tachycardia.
You can’t see the brain fog and dizziness from the lack of blood to our head.
You can’t see the vision dysfunction.
You can’t see the dizziness.
You can’t…

Long Covid SOS Simon Williams The Guardian Danny Altmann Binita Kane Stephen Griffin Trisha Greenhalgh Prof Amitava Banerjee💙 MANOJ SIVAN Long COVID Physio Long Covid Kids - #LongCovidKids Long Covid Support 🌍 'We need to continue to invest heavily in research'

This bit irritates me because we haven't actually invested in research at all. We funded some garbage in 2022 and nothing since. We need to start funding real biological research heavily starting 4 years ago!

I’d forgotten the caveat mentioned by Trisha Greenhalgh - because few now do LFD to confirm #COVID19 breakthroughs, many GPs are reticent about using #LongCovid diagnosis or codes..so we under-estimate

Covid Solidarity waiting on the BBC dropping a story about patients finding hope in Long Covid clinics or a story about someone extremely mild and improving with time.

Any minute….

2 million in UK estimated to have #LongCovid . Think how many there are on top of that number misattributing Long Covid – chronic ill-health effects of Covid – to other things because they don't know they were infected with SARS-CoV-2 specifically due to universal lack of testing.

👀 We need research into “long long covid”. In a significant proportion of people this condition goes on for YEARS.

I’m neither a politician nor an economist, but finding it hard to see how it could be good to have 3% of the workforce long term unwell to #LongCovid , yet no moves to acknowledge, mitigate, research or treat?

This change in the immune system may be behind many of the symptoms experienced by people with Long COVID, as well as those receiving Guillain-Barre or other immune disease diagnoses following SARS-CoV-2 infection.

🦠One theory behind autoimmunity is a viral infection causing confusion within the immune system.

When it comes to the SARS-CoV-2 virus, researchers are finding that people with COVID-19 are producing many different autoantibodies.⏩

#LongCOVID

rthm.com/articles/autoi…

BBC: “To get people off long-term sick leave the government is 'providing the NHS with record funding of nearly £165bn a year by the end of this Parliament'”.

How about we have a few £bn invested in research to #CureLongCovid … just saying.

#LongCovid
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…

Long COVID symptoms adversely affected the day-to-day activities of 1.5 million people (74.7% of those with self-reported long COVID).

381,000 (19.2%) reported that their ability to undertake their day-to-day activities had been “limited a lot”.

2 million people living in private households in England and Scotland were experiencing self-reported long COVID

Symptoms continuing for more than four weeks after a confirmed or suspected #COVID19 infection that were not explained by something else.

➡️ ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulati…

Dr. Grubb and colleagues recently published this review of the literature on autoimmunity in #POTS and #OH . They highlight the mounting evidence that autoimmunity plays a role in both conditions. See more details in comments below.

Read the article at mdpi.com/2075-4426/14/4…

Two things can both be true

1) viral persistence as a cause of #longcovid is a worthy hypothesis and deserves more funding and attention

2) the evidence for viral persistence as a cause of #longcovid is constantly overstated ‘on here’