For about 5 weeks I raised a little over 17k to erase medical debt for RIP Medical Debt to celebrate my 50th birthday instead of presents!

That equals 1.7 million in medical debt erased!!

Thank you to all who donated!

The barista at ⁦Starbucks⁩ was wearing a surgical mask. Makes perfect sense she’d want to protect herself since she is exposed to hundreds of travelers a day. I always carry new/ individually wrapped KN95s and gave her one. She was incredibly grateful!

Support your local COVID researcher/writer/political analyst bc her car broke down yesterday and her computer broke today lol 🤪 xx also I’m thinking of launching some podcasting eps if I can get closer to 5% paid subscribers !! (Currently at ~3%!!)

thegauntlet.news/subscribe?utm_…

HealthRising: ‘The Complement Connection in Long COVID: Microclots, Herpesviruses and More – Could it Explain Much?’

‘Since the paper was published, two more studies have highlighted complement activation in long COVID.’

healthrising.org/blog/2024/04/1…

'TVNZ’s Joy Reid says her biggest achievement is staying awake all day'

'This, Reid said, is her greatest health achievement since February 2023, when she became ill with what turned out to be long Covid.'

stuff.co.nz/wellbeing/3502…

charlos What I’ve been told is that it’s not the journal driving this – they could release either a preprint or just present the findings in a slideshow and no journal would have an issue

This is that billionaire who’s obsessed w anti aging!! I actually rly appreciate him documenting and sharing this bc I’ve been saying for a WHILE how wild it is that fitness/ wellness ppl ignore COVID. This is reality! Masking up is anti aging y’all

My lungs aged 19 years after having COVID.

After 18 months and numerous interventions, my lungs still have not regained full capacity.

+ In 2021, my lung capacity was age 26.
+ By Nov 2022, after getting covid, my lung capacity was age 45.
+ Now 2024, my lung capacity is age…

I appreciate all research and trials, but I resent that these results are being held for publication in what I assume is a prestigious journal. Patients deserve results ASAP, especially since they might inform the NIH’s decision to continue with its RECOVER-VIRAL Paxlovid trial

From Dr. Hector Bonilla, on today’s iECHO (streaming now here: 1vhnt7dn.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F%2…): “The data from [Stanford’s Paxlovid] trial is under embargo currently” and can’t be presented as planned, but will be published on June 7, at 7 a.m.

“Hayden knows fellow sufferers who say they’ve considered suicide but are holding off while waiting for results of the trial she’s part of.” science.org/content/articl…

STAT News: '$10 billion long Covid ‘moonshot’ is being floated by Bernie Sanders'

'Sanders’ proposal echoes what patient-advocates have been calling for since the beginning of the pandemic, a demand that has only become more forceful with time..'

statnews.com/2024/04/11/san…

Redo because my below post was horrendous. I don’t want to dirty delete it. And I’m sorry.
We need more research on GLP-1s. They are appearing to be amazing in regard to anti-inflammation and will impact many disease states (like in this study on MS)

4 years in & I never get used to how #LongCovid hits you like a tonne of bricks some days. The symptoms are always there but some days absolutely slam you from the moment you wake up, like you've been on a 10 day bender. Breathing, digestion, visual, brain issues, tinnitus...

“I know I’m gonna finish school. I think I’m gonna get better. And with all the research that’s gonna come out, hopefully something will help me more than anything else.”

“We have a lot of hope,” he said. #LongCovid people.com/boy-12-struggl…

Once again, I’m going to say: at least 24 million people in the US have long Covid and well over a million are dead. The majority of both groups got sick/died under Biden’s administration. Would you like to hear their answers?

I GOT MY PAIN MEDS! But there's one other prescription I'm waiting for. My pharmacist said he was on a 3-way call w/ my health plan and my doctor about it.

What an absolutely waste of their time.

ABOLISH PRIOR AUTHORIZATIONS!!

We badly need a British Bernie Sanders in parliament standing up for #LongCovid and #ME . I don’t care which party they belong to as long as they have principles, power and the ability to stress the enormity of this dire situation.