PACO

I keep seeing people say, "this is the sickest I've ever been, it's so much worse than COVID."

I've been mostly offline but I'm hoping to change that. I'm starting to feel stronger but I need to keep stringing more of these days together.

I had my worst 6 week stretch since 2022. I don't talk about my health a lot but this illness is traumatic and I don't know how to convey it, in a way that someone who hasn't experienced this can understand. I wish people understood but I understand why they don't.

@NatalieGABand Same boat. My timeline is also full of quote tweets on blocked posts.

@PacoOnPause I know, and I don’t engage but I still have to see it when mutuals interact with them because M*sk wants to creep on his exes tweets.

*huge Twitter account whose made jokes about long Covid being fake& uses the r word as a joke: Why are so many people cruel to each other these days? It’s like society doesn’t have compassion anymore. 😢

@jmcrookston x.com/i/status/19654…

Angela Rasmussen is still busy spouting disinformation out here I see

Some of the conversations about #longcovid (LC) are delusional, frankly wrong and will actively harm people. Learn to think through the groups of possibilities first after loosely defining #longcovid as the sequeala of the acute infection (perceived as a respiratory infection with some extra stuff by most). For example, in the absence of concrete evidence to the contrary (no such evidence exists), LC includes phenotypes of 1) irreversible damage (think myocardial infarction/stroke both in the covid and in the non covid settings), 2) potentially reversible (think autoimmunity/inflammation/vascular involvement after the virus has left the body) and 3) reversible damage (vital persistence leading to inflammation as a localized continuation of the acute infection, think of a urinary tract infection). Therapies against: 🛑irreversible damage can never exist unless longevity/regenerative medicine research delivers in some unidentified time point after 2050, 💔potentially reversible autoimmune damage may exist but will probably require lifelong therapy unless CRISPR/CAR-T/CAR-NK deliver 🥳potentially reversible may exist, but will require prolonged and complex regimens that potentially vary according to local sites affected. Since no therapies have clearly been identified for any of the three and research has not even started for the feasible (2 and 3) categories, one is left with *prevention of infection* as the only mechanism to reduce the prevalence of #LongCovid after repeated infections at the societal level and time to heal (perhaps) the 💩 sequelae at the individual, hoping that the time to recovery will not be long enough to a) lose many productive years of one's life and b) potentially reversible damage to evolve to irreversible one (think of polyarteritis nodosa in chronic hepatitis B, cryoglobulinemic vasculitis and membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis in hepatitis C and liver cancer in both hepatitis B and C). If you are fine with hoping that you don't need to practice prevention against covid because therapies against #longcovid are just around the corner (this is the DELUSION), be my guest; after all #UDoU. But please don't peddle your copium to the gullible.

@ryangrim If you are interested in learning more about the immune effects of covid, this article is an accessible starting point. bmj.com/content/390/bm…

Man this really sucks

If you are able to, please help, I would really appreciate it.

@MaskedHottiee So far, no. If it happens it will get a lot of coverage.

Has anybody tested positive for Hantavirus that wasn't on the cruise at this point?

@DaniBeckman @erturklab I knew you moved to Germany but I didn't realize you had joined the @erturklab - congrats! I share this study quite often, I wish more people knew about the spike protein persisting in the skull-meninges-brain-axis.

For #FluorescenceFriday, the work that motivated my move to Germany! I join the @erturklab to help develop novel approaches to neutralize and eliminate residual viral proteins commonly observed in #LongCovid patients, particularly in the brain. Keep an eye out for our work!🧠💪🔬

People who tested positive for #COVID have a higher risk of being diagnosed with other infections in the following months. This has been shown for years and hundreds of publications in the topic. Covid has an impact on the immune system we still don't fully understand.

Symptomatic Long COVID is the tip of the iceberg. If you want to see below the surface, all you need to do is start reading studies. It's always been an everyone problem, even though everyone isn't ready to accept it.

For 6 years, I've been wondering what Mike Ryan frantically scribbled to Tedros and I think it might have been this.

Juste pour rappel, et pour énerver les rassuristes (running gag 😅) : si 28% des morts (recensés) de la covid auraient pu vivre encore >=5 ans s'ils n'avaient pas été infectés, cela veut dire qu'il y a bien actuellement un "effet moisson" dans la mortalité observée 🤷‍♂️ #maths

It really seems like the first response for everyone exposed to the hantavirus was to immediately travel to as many novel places as possible and open mouth kiss all of their countrymen

@Biff234523 @kxly4news I think it's a mistake and they confused tested positive with being monitored. Otherwise more outlets would be jumping on this since it would be huge news.

If you didn't read this 6 years ago, it's still worth reading today. x.com/i/status/12457…

"Yes but definitely do not use SARS-COV2 - I'm not signing anything with that in it. I prefer we use nCov - intentional. I'm not going to be part of that mess."

@halcionandon I disappeared from everyone's timeline! I haven't been very active because my health hasn't been cooperating.

@PacoOnPause you completely disappeared from my timeline…

@qwerty12702 I read one article that said it was a fever but a lot of outlets are still just reporting that they had symptoms.

@PacoOnPause Also "symptoms" could mean almost anything

What I find interesting about this incident, is that it could be another hantavirus case, or one of the experts deployed to the ship could have brought on another illness. Either scenario points to the sloppy handling of infection control.