For those of us with any long-covid issues, also know as covid long haulers.

Good article
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Hi. My name is Charlie, and long Covid has destroyed my life.

Before my “mild infection”, I was a healthy, fit 30-year-old, biking 10 miles a day with no prior health issues, the type of person the CDC says should bounce back after two weeks.

Well, it’s been two years and I’ve yet to bounce back. I can’t work or leave the house, and I rely on my partner as a full-time caretaker. I still can’t breathe right. It is a living nightmare.

Writing this piece would have taken me an evening before I was sick, but now this level of cognitive exertion takes an entire week to complete.

There are millions suffering through this every day, stuck in a twilight zone of never-ending debilitating symptoms for months, and now years, after infection.

And with a reported 10-30% of infectionsleading to this condition, we are witnessing the greatest mass disabling event in human history – the scale of which demands the same “Operation Warp Speed” type of urgency that was given to acute Covid and the development of vaccines.

This is still a new disease, and it will take time to understand everything. However, research is quickly unraveling the disease process, and it is no longer a “complete mystery”. So while we can only push science so fast, here are my four questions about the treatment, support and prevention of long Covid.

1. Why don’t we have diagnostics yet for microclots?​

“Great news – all your labs look normal” is the dreaded phrase long Covid patients hear repeatedly from their medical team, and often leads to a minimization and dismissal of their symptoms.

Current clinical diagnostics have proven insufficient for the diagnosis and treatment of long Covid (along with other longstanding post viral illnesses such as ME/CFS).

However, the latest research is developing dozens of new diagnostic methods that have identified explicit biological abnormalities in the long Covid disease process……

2. Why is there still no public health warning?​

We’ve known for well over a year how prevalent and severe long Covid is, yet the public remains largely uninformed around its risk.

While the likelihood of someone developing the condition after infection has ranged from 5% or 50% (a recent meta-analysispins it to 20-30%, and 10% if vaccinated), the most conservative estimate still amounts to one in 20 people. A “medically rare event” is one in 1,000……


https://www.theguardian.com/world/c...-covid-pandemic-health?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other