“We must have this national conversation. How are we going to deal with long #COVID?”

Featured post: Medical experts and those suffering from this challenging condition are demanding better—more research and healthier air to breathe. https://www.texasobserver.org/long-covid-texas-clearing-the-air/

(Edit: adjusted word choice based on reader feedback 🤠)

#LongCovid #Health #news #politics #USpol #science #healthcare #research #CovidIsNotOver #Austin #Texas

Clearing the Air: Long COVID Sufferers Call for a Healthier World

Even young, healthy Texans can suffer for years after COVID infections.

^{Kit O'Connell (The Texas Observer)}

So it looks like #LongCOVID appears to still be a live replicating virus that the immune system detects and prevents from spreading but can't get to it (tissue reservoirs, surrounding nerves, brain, some parts of the GI tract and lungs) and so the immune system stays active causing damage to those areas of the body.

https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/faustfiles/109672

Opinion | Monica Bertagnolli: U.S. 'Ready' for Next Pandemic Threat

We are going to be as ready as any government or organization could possibly be, says NIH leader

^{www.medpagetoday.com}

MSM is acknowledging the devastating effects of #LongCovid💔.

Theo Huot de Saint-Albin was a 9-yrs old when he 1st contracted COVID in July 2020. 4 yrs later, as much of the world has moved on from the pandemic -Theo -now nearly a teenager, is still battling the effects of long COVID.

"What happened directly after COVID was worse than my actual COVID -For me, I have chronic migraines" -Theo -now in 7th grade. Over the past 4 years, he's contracted COVID a total of 3X-.
https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/wellness/story/boy-describes-years-long-battle-long-covid-108764741

12-year-old describes 4-year battle with long COVID

Theo Huot de Saint-Albin was just 9 when he first contracted COVID in 2020.

^{Katie Kindelan (ABC News)}

New study on #LongCovid:

People with long Covid have distinct patterns of inflammation detectable in the blood, which could potentially be targeted with immune therapies.

Patients with prolonged symptoms showed evidence of immune system activation. The exact pattern of this activation varied depending on the sort of symptoms that they predominantly had -for example, mainly fatigue or cognitive impairment.
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/252415/long-covid-leaves-telltale-traces-blood/

Long COVID leaves telltale traces in the blood | Imperial News | Imperial College London

People with long COVID have distinct patterns of inflammation detectable in the blood, which could potentially be targeted with immune therapies.

^{Imperial News}

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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JKlXnjp55dxnqqa6ZPjvJTf4oZxLwjv5wC_jdWCIYNY/mobilebasic

"In the two years since world governments decided to pretend COVID is “over” without introducing clean air or other mitigations in schools, the rates of chronically absent students were 28% and 26%, respectively. In other words, rates of chronic absence have nearly doubled since COVID began spreading. When you word it this way, it’s a lot less mysterious than the purposely befuddled and befuddling “nearly doubled post-COVID”. After all, kids were never at high risk of death from COVID, are being reinfected at high rates, and many of them are still unvaccinated. In what sense are they, then, “post-COVID”?"

https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/nytimes-invents-increasingly-bizarre

#COVID19 #LongCOVID #COVIDNormalisation #PandemicIsNotOver

NYTimes invents increasingly bizarre explanations for pandemic-era student absence crisis

Major media outlets continue laundering Biden's failed pandemic response by attempting to hide student illness behind nonsensical explanations.

^{Julia Doubleday (The Gauntlet)}

Gee, it must've slipped their minds.

The media conveniently left this part out:

“The truth is that my health has been affected by long covid and this has limited my strength to undertake the breadth of travel essential to my position. Because I cannot be sure to regain that strength fully, I need to step aside for someone to be selected and to take over.” (from his email to staff)

Long Covid Forces The UN's Humanitarian Chief To Quit

#LongCovid #Covid

https://www.donotpanic.news/p/long-covid-forces-the-uns-humanitarian

Long Covid Forces The UN's Humanitarian Chief To Quit

Martin Griffiths, the UN’s under-secretary general for humanitarian affairs, is quitting because of long covid. Although if you only glanced at the headlines about this news, you wouldn’t know it.

^{Nate Bear (¡Do Not Panic!)}