1/A 🧵 With vs. from: The shocking rise of deaths due to complications of pregnancy during the pandemic When compared to the pre-pandemic baseline, the number of women dying during or just after pregnancy due to complications from pregnancy has DOUBLED

Having a neglected chronic illness means you'll hear a lot "no that can't happen" from doctors about things that actually do happen. #MEcfs #POTS etc

Access is love

A 🧵 on #AIDS in the 80s/90s: I was 15 when I first had sex with a man. I’d snuck off to London’s Heaven nightclub with the express intent of ridding myself of my ‘gay virginity’, a goal I achieved easily with a visiting American photographer. 1/13 #LGBTplusHM #UnderTheScope

Covid and placentas. Whew. Yall not ready

Someone asked me, "if many people are gradually developing long COVID, wouldn't we see it in the economic data?" Yes, we would. And in fact we are. A few recent examples:

Hold up, you mean to tell me the DEA shirked all responsibility for the ADHD medicine shortage while knowing full well that they'd forced a manufacturer who usually produced 600 million doses (12% of the national total) of ADHD meds per year to shut down??? Let's discuss 🧵

Has a doctor ever tried to undiagnose you with something you definitely have?

Treatment harms never get enough air in #MECFS and #LongCovid. Aside from GET and other charlatan-driven therapies, what have you tried that you’ve regretted? How did it impact you, for how long, and did it change your approach to other treatments?

CW racialized medical violence. Child abuse. . . . . . . .

Everyone should know these ten facts about Covid:

The latest wave of covid propaganda is to claim that ~covid anxiety~ is the biggest pandemic problem we're facing. I have yet to see the data. I have, on the other hand, seen mountains of data indicating structural and functional changes to heart, lungs, brain, and more. 🧵

Hi. I'm hanging in here. In a crash but surviving. Thankfully that wave of very serious depression has subsided, leaving me with "just" my severe disability. Just in case anyone was wondering. Haven't been on social media much, especially here. Hope you all are ok. 💙

When you can't be anywhere, no one realises that you're missing.

C0vid friends, plz help. A friend has a 3 year old who has been intermittently testing positive on RATs since August. Each time also testing *negative* with Pluslife. wtf is going on???

This is #LongCOVIDAwarenessWeek. People living with Long Covid and allies across the world are coming together to raise awareness about Long Covid. Advocacy efforts will culminate on 15 March, the Awareness Day. Here some advocacy initiatives I spotted online 🔥