Julia Doubleday (The Gauntlet) takes on that horrendous article on NPR:

"NPR’s decision to platform a piece about the difficulty of navigating life with a spouse who can’t dine indoors, instead of a piece about the difficulty of navigating a society that has made dining indoors unsafe for vulnerable groups, is just that- a decision, and a political one. It is part of an ongoing effort to cast those who cannot play along with the “back to normal” fantasy- those who are being harmed and killed by it- as weird, paranoid, crazy, annoying, and “the problem.”

Long COVID is a major thorn in the side of the “back to normal” approach to COVID. While some people (appear) to recover well from COVID, many others suffer long-term post-COVID health problems."

https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/disabled-peoples-exclusion-from-indoor

#LongCOVID #AntiAbleism #CovidIsNotOver

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Parent or teacher interested in a Covid safe school?! Centered in disability justice. One is forming in MA/RI, location TBD. Email for more info or with questions!

@disability @mcas
@chronicillness
@disabilityjustice
@education @neurodivergents

#Covid #MaskUp #LongCovid #Education #disability #justice #school #k12

This is going to be the strangest #Covid and #LongCovid question out there.

Are there known cases of individuals experiencing *improvements* in mood and/or mental health in the immediate post infection period in excess of what is normally expected when one gets over an illness?

Are there any known cases of individuals experiencing *improvements* in QoL on the 2+ month post infection timetable that defines Long Covid?

(yes this is like the malaria cure for syphilis)

#Neurology #Immunology

A really good summary by Cort Johnson on the Dutch research about #LongCovid muscle damage and malfunction. As I write this, my legs are hurting https://www.healthrising.org/blog/2024/01/09/exercisse-muscle-damage-energy-depletion-long-covid/

Kudos to Patient Led Research Collaborative for funding this so fast!

Exercise Causes Muscle Damage and Energy Depletion in Long COVID - Health Rising

One of the dangers facing the long-COVID research field was an over-emphasis on immune functioning and an under-emphasis on metabolism and energy production.

^{Cort Johnson (Health Rising: Finding Answers for ME/CFS, FM and Chronic Pain Patients)}

"Oxygen extraction by the body’s tissues was compromised in patients who had symptoms of #exerciseIntolerance after #COVID"

"Patients are told that their symptoms are a result of deconditioning, or decline from lack of physical activity.
Our findings contradict that hypothesis."

#PostCovid #LongCovid #PEM #MECFS #corona #covid19

https://news.yale.edu/2023/12/19/study-helps-explain-post-covid-exercise-intolerance

Study helps explain post-COVID exercise intolerance

Exercise intolerance is one symptom associated with long COVID. A new study helps explain its cause.

^YaleNews

SARS-CoV-2 attacks the mitochondria in cells, depleting their energy.

"researchers found that the virus blocks specific genes that use oxygen to create ATP, forcing the body to deplete finite energy reserves in the body. Without an energy source, cells throughout the body begin to starve, with the cells powering the brain and the heart suffering the most.”

https://news.unchealthcare.org/2023/10/researchers-show-sars-cov-2-infection-affects-energy-stores-in-the-body-causing-organ-failure/

#LongCovid #Covid19

Researchers Show SARS-Cov-2 Infection Affects Energy Stores in the Body, Causing Organ Failure | Newsroom

An international research team, including Jonathan C. Schisler, PhD, in the UNC School of Medicine, has found how SARS-CoV-2 causes widespread “energy outages” throughout major organs, and how these effects contribute to debilitating long COVID sympt…

^{kpdaniel (Newsroom)}