I was in hospital during COVID but it was really weird (not with COVID something else). I missed out on so much of what was going on and the whole hospital was completely locked down. The staff were amazing though. I can safely say 2020 was the strangest year of my life.
COVID-19 (Coronavirus) discussion
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This story is a familiar one to me.
The government is being the least active to find solutions for this problem.
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The government is being the least active to find solutions for this problem.
Leeds doctor still 'bedbound' three years after Covid infection
Dr Alexis Gilbert was working in public health when he fell ill and now struggles with daily tasks.
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Unlike you and I, I'm unaware of a single MP with long covid, completely unable to do their previous job and with a lack of qualifications/skills/experience for jobs that aren't physical and/or mental and/or social.This story is a familiar one to me.
The government is being the least active to find solutions for this problem.
Leeds doctor still 'bedbound' three years after Covid infection
Dr Alexis Gilbert was working in public health when he fell ill and now struggles with daily tasks.
The one MP I know had it, Andrew Gwynne, threw his fellow long haulers under the bus.
Covid and post covid is destroying lives, while our gormless politicians wonder why more people are claiming disability smh.
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When the government doesn't even care about health professionals what chance as anyone else got!?
Long Covid: 'We feel abandoned and forgotten'
Healthcare workers call for more support for those left with disabilities since catching the virus.
www.bbc.co.uk
When the government doesn't even care about health professionals what chance as anyone else got!?
Covid and post covid is destroying lives, while our gormless politicians wonder why more people are claiming disability smh.
Long Covid: 'We feel abandoned and forgotten'
Healthcare workers call for more support for those left with disabilities since catching the virus.
When the government doesn't even care about health professionals...
Companies are developing drugs and treatments for long covid but as it seems to have so many variations and is very similar to ME, another illness which is difficult to define, I can see that effective trials which prove a positive response may take some time.
I am sure that they will persevere as there seems to be a number of cases to treat.
Most people have not been challenged by covid to that extent, if like me have had several infections and yet function quite well although also prone to COPD.
Long covid also is predominantly self diagnosed unless you are taken into hospital which leads to an uncertainty over its true prevalence in the population.
I know from my own experience that long covid is noticeable on it's own.
After having covid for the third time and coming out of hospital I expected to slowly get better. But after 2 weeks new symptoms started appearing, around the vagus nerve for me, where going to the toilet sent my heart rate to 150 when I was just sitting there doing nothing.
It feels like long covid is the body stuck in recovery mode. It doesn't recover.
There have been medications in trial that is working.
But it's annoying that;
Many companies are treating covid and long covid separately, so treating long covid with currently available covid medications is considered off label, so doctors are reluctant to prescribe it.
Many of the companies haven't allowed their medications to be used in trials.
There is also issues of the medication authorisation boards are dragging their feet in authorisating medications and allowing for recognised trials. Many of the research is being held up because of the FDA in the US.
Trumps admin is also undermining research by removing funding for NIH sponsored trials, as well as defunding events that promote collaboration between the various trial groups, as at the moment there is a lot of duplication going on.
We need a light at the end of the tunnel. Many people I communicate with want to die. One woman said she'll stay alive until her cat dies because then she'll have no one.
Another person can hardly eat anything in hospital, and because many of the doctors and nurses on the ground aren't trained in long covid they have an offhand attitude.
There are young people stuck in hospitals and nursing homes because of this.
Sorry my post seems like a rant. I'm frustrated about the situation, and upset because I'm seeing good people contemplating death.
I disagree, especially since research continually showed no evidence of it being manipulated.
Even with the CIA's change of assessment now, its not based on any new evidence and they even class it as "low confidence" in this determination, which means the intelligence supporting it is deficient, inconclusive or contradictory.
It would be. Because if the lab leak is true then the US is involved.
The truth comes along with lots of legal cases.
New research of whole body scanning with the latest machine as detected covid activity in the acute phase, and at 3 months the spike protein is still being detected.
For those who like to read the detailed reports;
www.nature.com
For those who like to read the detailed reports;
Whole-body visualization of SARS-CoV-2 biodistribution in vivo by immunoPET imaging in non-human primates - Nature Communications
There are limited approaches to monitor virus spread in vivo. Here, the authors report PET/CT-based in vivo imaging to track SARS-CoV-2 biodistribution in a COVID-19 non-human primate model using a radiolabeled human antibody revealing persistent detection in the lung and brain 3 months after...
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Just had COVID for the 3rd time and it properly wiped me. Haven’t ever been this ill
Struggled to breath quite a bit and over a week after symptoms started I’m struggling with shortness of breath.
Last time I had Covid it wiped my cardio ability for about a year. Hoping it doesn’t happen again as I’d just started to get back to where I was pre Covid.
Struggled to breath quite a bit and over a week after symptoms started I’m struggling with shortness of breath.
Last time I had Covid it wiped my cardio ability for about a year. Hoping it doesn’t happen again as I’d just started to get back to where I was pre Covid.
I think that is the plan. It's just getting them out to the public. Most are in trials.
There is one Sipavibart that was released in Germany that a private Doctor on Harley Street as managed to setup an import arrangement. It's £5000 per 2 doses.
I think this year will be the year of trials, and hopefully them deciding on a biomarker test.
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Think what I've had/got is COVID, altered sense of smell which isn't just due to congestion - though it isn't like I lost it with the first time I had COVID. Also getting bouts of fatigue again though like before weirdly mostly go with just sitting down for 5-10 minutes.
Hoping you recover fully.
I've had it twice and it has now opened me up to always getting chest infections if I am near someone already suffering and my lungs and throat always getting slammed first.
I'm really going to have to start wearing a mask again in public and when near those with infections because it does scare me what might happen if I get it again
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Having to continue working the thing that I will always remember is hitting the supermarket at 6pm to see people had selfishly emptied all the shelfs.
Yep, same. Lockdown taught me what a load of selfish ***** I share the planet with, watching people fight over toilet paper was by far my favourite. Literal arguments in supermarkets over a roll of khazi paper, some of it was quite funny tbh. People carrying on as if they're going to die without it.
I still watch this sometimes to remind myself what a bunch of windowlickers some people are
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Yep, same. Lockdown taught me what a load of selfish ***** I share the planet with, watching people fight over toilet paper was by far my favourite. Literal arguments in supermarkets over a roll of khazi paper, some of it was quite funny tbh. People carrying on as if they're going to die without it.
I still watch this sometimes to remind myself what a bunch of windowlickers some people are
The thing that also sticks in my mind, apart from the holidays that were cancelled, was all those on social media moaning about the rise in community charge and how they cannot afford it, but managed to empty all the supermarkets within days of the lockdown.
It started with the **** food and the final items to go were good for you and free from
That said it was nice being permitted to travel the roads that had virtually no traffic.
I cycled down each day to get a day's supply and evening meal. I usually got something. I think I bought a maximum of eight toilet rolls though and never got any hand wash until near the end of lockdown. There was a deal of paranoia going down.