I don’t need commitments to funding badly designed, doomed-to-fail trials w/ fuzzy endpoints to “cure post-viral diseases.” I want a commitment to preventing + containing the spread of airborne viruses. Preventing exposure beats trying to fix a problem once damage is done.

RT @NFMai: Ich habe eine KI befragt, warum es in DE keine Berichte über die neue COVID-Welle und keine Warnungen gibt. Antwort, die es wohl…

#EU neighbors, who’s got #Novavax already??

Prior infection doesn’t guarantee protection from getting COVID again. Reinfections can happen, and every new infection is another opportunity to develop Long COVID. Reducing the number of times we’re infected still matters. #COVID #COVID19 #LongCOVID #CovidIsNotOver #CleanAir

Interessierst du dich für Infektionsprävention und möchtest dich engagieren und vernetzen? Safe Air Docs sucht ehrenamtliche Unterstützung, in welcher Form du sie auch anbieten kannst 👇

More chicken representation on Twitter, please!

This is going to crush the heart of many a reactionary jerk, but you are quite simply wrong. You can educate yourself by reading the link included in the following tweet.

Stell dir vor, deine Welt steht Kopf, weil du deinem schwer kranken Kind nicht helfen kannst und gleichzeitig die Ansprechpartnerin für Eltern anderer unversorgter Kinder bist, die mit diesem Leid allein gelassen werden: Ein Ausdruck der kriminellen Nichtversorgung von MECFS.

Hallo @BMG_Bund #Linnemann @rki_de #STIKO und G-BA: Sogar der CDC schafft es, eine universelle Covid19-Impfempfehlung auszusprechen, und Sie????

🚨🚨🚨Six consultations for Long COVID in the last two weeks - four of which are severe - developed in the last three to six months. I challenge the narrative that new cases are on the decline.

The future of respirator technology will be available next month - so exciting!

Happy to report the UN has fantastic indoor air quality! But I did get questioned by multiple security guards about why I was wearing a mask. I told them we were attending meetings about preventing pandemics 🤷🏻‍♂️

There is no such thing as immunity to an immune evasive virus that causes immunodeficiency.

A lot of people can’t handle that according to current scientific evidence Covid is not mild and it’s a continued risk to get reinfected because each infection increases the likelihood of multisystemic damage in the body. The only logical conclusion is prevention, sorry.

Das kann ich nicht vorenthalten ⬇️

So endemic and mild that it causes a rise in hospitalizations! What excuses will governments and the media find this time? #FarFromOver #MildMyAss #AvoidSARS2

Kann jemand eine Klinik in Deutschland empfehlen?? Bitte antworten an @Piss_in_Pants, wenn ihr einen Tipp habt!

Absolutely! I mean, are we sure that after being cured from LC we will not develop it again upon reinfection? Or are health insurances going to cover this potential future treatment every time we get infected again?

✨Dr. Nancy Klimas @ngklimas talks viral persistence and viral reactivation in Long COVID & MECFS✨👀 For those who may not know, Dr. Klimas is currently running a trip of sipavibart monoclonal antibodies at @NSUFlorida! Some key takeaways: A leading indicator of who goes on to develop Long COVID after their acute infection is whether they end up with reactivated Epstein-Barr virus. (Not only that it reactivates during acute infection, but that it *stays* reactivated after acute infection). This is because while everyone who’s had EBV previously still carries it in their body. Most people’s immune systems are able to keep it suppressed, but when a stressor such as COVID weakens the immune system, these latent viruses such as EBV may begin to escape its control. Persist infection with EBV and other viruses, such as herpesviruses, Coxsackie virus, and CMV, is also thought to be a cause of MECFS. In these bases- both MECFS and LC- Dr. Klimas says the question is, “Can you treat it by treating the infection that you found? Or do you need to strengthen the immune system?” 👉For certain of these viruses, it’s possible to take an antiviral for a period of time. Even if it’s a virus that can never be totally cleared from the body, such as EBV, sometimes taking a course of antivirals to suppress the virus for a time can give the immune system a chance to recover so it can then keep things under control moving forward. 👉Dr. Klimas also mentions interferons as a treatment. An interferon is a class of proteins that our immune system makes to fight viruses. They are also made synthetically and used as medications that the patient can inject. (Interferons have also been found helpful in acute COVID, and we’d love to see them tested in Long COVID!). 👉Dr. Klimas also mentions that certain foods and supplements can also help the immune system to recover. In addition to reactivated latent viruses, Dr. Klimas also mentions the growing evidence for SARS-CoV-2 persistence in the GI tract, as well as potentially other parts of the body, as the cause of Long COVID.🦠 As research progress, it would be interesting to see if the same concepts she mentions for treating reactivated viruses could also be used to fight persistent SARS-CoV-2. Maybe rather than trying to eliminate every single viral particle with antivirals, which may be impossible given all the sites in the body it seems able to invade, perhaps what we need to be focusing on is giving the immune system enough if a boost that it can fight back, and get everything under control again. 1/ piped.video/9J-WO9dcoWk?si=EOMS…

Long COVID is the disease everyone would like to move on from, except millions of bodies never got the memo. The hopeful part is that the science is finally listening. And listening is usually where understanding begins. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…

"So mild we have to lie about it."