Consolidation, Recovery, Treatment, Cure? Where are we with LongCovid research?
Interesting short science talk.

https://youtu.be/P2gUDJb_UQY
#longCovid #research
@longcovid

RE: https://mastodon.nl/@volkskrant/116288642688783416

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🆓 https://archive.is/20260325112644/https://www.volkskrant.nl/wetenschap/nederlandse-postcovid-patienten-krijgen-antistof-filtering-als-ik-niets-doe-wordt-het-niet-beter-dan-nu~b5e1d524/

#Covid #PostCovid #LongCovid

#WritersCoffeeClub Mar. 25: What do you feel when a loved one reads your work?

A: My girlfriend is my editor. And she is very honest. So, excited, but sometimes a little scared.

She has #LongCovid, so I was anxious about the story I wrote around that. It's written from the POV of the caregiver. So I was saying things about the caregiving experience I maybe hadn't said before. I was also representing the chronically ill character.

I sat with my finger on the send button for a day.

My #book The Wood, is free on #Amazon today and tomorrow! This is a great way to see if you like my #writing style. I wrote this book when I was processing the changes long-COVID had made to my body.

The Wood is a #fable full of witch-hunting and adventure, #disability representation, and more: https://a.co/d/0gCMjBed

Alternatively, you can #read it for #free on #WeInk (which pays #authors using ad revenue) or discounted on #itch https://laura-m-browne-lambert.itch.io

#books #reading #fantasy #longcovid

News Release 24-Mar-2026

"Autoantibodies implicated as drivers of long COVID in new study: Antibodies from Long COVID patients can induce persistent pain-like symptoms in mice"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1120982

Hashtags:
@longcovid
#LongCovid #PASC #PwLC #postcovid #postcovid19 #PostCovidSyndrome #LC #Covidlonghaulers #longhaulers #COVIDBrain #NeuroPASC
#Coronavirus
#COVID19 #COVID #COVID_19 #COVIDー19 #SARSCoV2 #auscovid19 #CovidIsNotOver

Just bought a copy of this beautifully written zine for a friend struggling with Long COVID:

https://www.crucialcomix.com/comic/naked-and-afraid-of-long-covid/

#LongCOVID #MEcfs

Studies across 14 nations show 25% to 30% rate of long COVID

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/studies-across-14-nations-show-25-30-rate-long-covid

A new study in BMJ Global Health across 13 middle- and high-income countries reveals that 25% of patients reported symptoms of long COVID after symptomatic COVID-19, and long COVID is significantly more prevalent in participants from less wealthy nations and in patients of Arab or North African ethnicity.

A second study published in BMC Public Health showed that, among 3,693 COVID-19 patients in China, 30.2% reported at least one persistent long-COVID symptom, and 10.7% noted symptoms affecting daily life.

Among the 25.1% of participants who said they experienced long-COVID symptoms, 12.8% reported sleeping disorders, 9.8% reported joint pain, 8.7% had fatigue, and 8.1% noted headaches. Almost a third of participants (29.8%) from lower middle-income countries said they had long COVID, compared with 14.4% in high-income countries (adjusted odds ratio [aOR] 1.53; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.10 to 2.14).

The highest long-COVID prevalence was seen in patients with Arab/North African ethnicity (36.1%), and hospitalized patient were also at increased risk of long COVID (aOR, 2.04; 95% CI, 1.63 to 2.54).

• Remember: covid is not over, 50% of infections are asymptomatic, minimum 10% of infections end up in long COVID, re-infections wreck us, COVID spreads and moves like cigarette smoke, think of the people around you and you as people who are all day smoking, it becomes more visual to understand how COVID moves.
• There is no way to “train” the immune system because it is not a muscle. there is a common misconception that exposure to harmful germs strengthens the immune system. viral diseases like COVID, flu, measles weaken the immune system, leaving the possibility of lasting damage. The reality is that you don't build your immunity with repeated infections, vaccines strengthen the immune system by teaching it to recognize pathogens without all the risks. Focusing on infection prevention is key.
• Rapid antigen tests give many false negatives.
• Solving the pandemic was never in the cards for the capitalist world.
• Instead, the explicit goal of the ruling class has been to make the pandemic simply disappear from public perception. Any reminder of the existence of a highly-transmissible, highly-dangerous, mass-disabling disease could trigger panic, or worse: organized, militant labor action. Averting this crisis required a careful campaign of culture-crafting; the people themselves needed to become convinced that there was no reason to fight. Consent for protracted mass infection needed to be manufactured.

“The cold truth of the matter is that the motive behind COVID minimization is greed and social control. (…) Solving the pandemic was never in the cards for the capitalist world. Instead, the explicit goal of the ruling class has been to make the pandemic simply disappear from public perception.” Let Them Eat Plague! http://clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org/

#MaskUp #WearAMask #CovidRealist #CovidIsAirbone #LongCovid #YallMasking #DisabledLiberation #DisabilityJustice

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