Ok #LongCovid team, we're ready to recruit for this exciting PolyBio viral persistence project! If you are: 1. In New York 2. Have Long COVID 3. Got Long COVID from a COVID infection ***6-9 months*** ago Shoot us an email: [email protected] Let's do this 💪💪💪

“We know about the consequences of acute viral illness from a lot of other things. Long flu is a thing; long Epstein-Barr virus is a thing. The difficulty is in measuring it. Harvard Chan's Bill Hanage @BillHanage.bsky.social talks about long COVID with Gizmodo. bit.ly/3ofhfyR

1/ Very interesting preprint— air sampling after a bed linens exchange in the room of a patient w #monkeypox was positive for replication competent virus (CT mid 30s) medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

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Funding for long Covid scandalous, says Scottish Labour bbc.in/3Q8ZCwM

The % of people who are unemployed & not seeking work in the UK with #LongCovid symptoms has doubled in one year, from 2.4% in Aug 2021 to 5% (!!) in July 2022. theguardian.com/business/2022/…

Today is #SevereMEDay, a day of remembrance of all those who suffered and those who died due to severe myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). ME/CFS remains a challenge for NIH and it's scientists to understand this illness and develop effective treatments.

Shocked this paper didn't get more press! It changes our narrative of COVID as we know it (& confirms what people with #LongCovid have said for years): Viral and symptom rebound is *common*, unrelated to Paxlovid. medrxiv.org/content/10.110… A few points: 1/

In the past week, there's been a flurry of new, informative reports on #LongCovid. I've tried to summarize them here along with the implications erictopol.substack.com/p/some-light-o… (PS you can subscribe, it's free)

Jamie Oliver reveals his wife Jools has been suffering with long Covid for two years | Daily Mail Online dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

After posting a paper from Nature on transmission of C19 between mothers and babies, our account got flagged and that tweet blocked. Overnight, our followers dropped from 1,117 to 83. Please, refollow us and retweet this tweet. Happy Sunday! #MedTwitter #LongCovid #ItsTheVirus

Two to four million Americans are out of work due to long Covid, according to a new Brookings Institution report. My story: wsj.com/articles/over-…

NEW REPORT: using updated data, I find that 2-4m Americans are not working due to #longcovid. This is costing us ~$170 billion annually in lost wages alone. A thread (1/) brookings.edu/research/new-d…

Long Covid sufferers have waited too long for help, and things need to change, *now*. Research isn't fast or broad enough. Some clinicians still lack awareness, and patients face uphill battles. Vague definitions impede progress. New NYT piece. #LongCovid nytimes.com/2022/08/25/opi…

Today we are excited to announce the Long Covid Research Initiative - a collaboration of researchers, clinicians, and patients working to rapidly study and treat #LongCovid. We launch with $15M+ in funding commitments. 1/ lc19.org/introducing-lc…

"Instead of spreading itself thinly over the many areas of interest in the fast-growing long COVID field, the LCRI appears to be doing a very smart thing – it’s throwing all its energy at this point on just one of them – viral persistence." healthrising.org/blog/2022/09/1…

UK Long Haulers! Evusheld is finally (privately) available in the UK. Has anyone found a clinic where it's available? Evusheld helps protect against reinfection (from some variants), and has some positive anecdotes for Long Covid too. bloodcancer.org.uk/news/evusheld-…

“In 20% of those reporting #LongCovid symptoms, they observed significant thickening throughout parts of the vagus nerve that extend out from the neck & into the chest. Nerve thickening often results from inflammatory damage.” forbes.com/sites/williamh…