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Lara Crowther

10 months

From mountain hiking, OCR, open water swimming, gym, getting up at 5am to get into the office for 7am on a Sunday (the day after returning home from holiday) because I loved my work so much to … barely functioning. Don’t ever think it can’t happen to you 😷

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Lara Crowther

@fillthewhole

2 months

This. We’re not terrified of covid, we just don’t want it. Just like we protect ourselves from lots of other things. Still wearing seatbelts, still washing hands after prepping raw chicken, still wearing a mask to prevent covid. It’s not difficult to understand is it?

Sammie McFarland

@SammieFMc

2 months

Hi @DailyMailUK , my daughter isn’t terrified of 🦠 - like all individuals 🌍 who understand infection control & airborne 🦠- she assess each situation & acts accordingly. These teens are smart cookies. Proactive #HealthCare ! 💪🏽 #VioletAffleck #LongCovidKids #YallMasking

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Lara Crowther

@fillthewhole

10 months

This will be my 5th infection … twice in past two months. This week I have isolated from family, worn mask in house, HEPA, different bedroom/bathroom. For someone with housebound LC this is a big deal. Please read the literature. Please advocate for clean air in schools 🙏🏼

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@fillthewhole

2 months

Fitness professionals masking 🙌 It makes zero sense to be smashing the gym & eating all the wholefoods if you’re out & about huffing SARS-COV2 all day. More of this please 😍👏🏼

Angry Talese

@talese

3 months

#yallmasking I teach Pilates in my N95 because staying healthy is not just about exercise and diet. I'm so grateful for those of you still wearing a mask (if you can)

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Lara Crowther

@fillthewhole

5 months

Never smoked, don’t drink, eat wholefoods, exercised daily (cardio & weight training), daily yoga/meditation, BMI always been under 22 yet I am one of these people now waiting for cardiac testing due to repeat covid infections, along with a million others. It’s covid. Say so.

BHF Policy

@BHFpolicy

5 months

We are in the grip of a heart care crisis. Our hearts need and deserve more💔 Today we've launched a call to all political parties to prioritise heart disease as we head towards a general election. Add your voice here👇

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Lara Crowther

@fillthewhole

2 months

This is what I don’t understand - how can people not understand what’s going on?! You’re being asked not to test not because it’s not necessary but because they don’t want you linking your new health problems to covid. Wake up!!!

Dr Claire Taylor

@drclairetaylor

5 months

No one is looking out for staff. It’s not for your convenience that you don’t ‘have’ to test anymore. It means you cannot claim against your work for your health being destroyed overnight.

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Lara Crowther

@fillthewhole

2 months

This 👇🏼 it’s not ‘brain fog’, it’s brain damage. It’s been over 3 years since my neuro issues began. They are only getting worse as time passes, not better. All the things mentioned below feel very familiar. And more. Comparing it to perimenopause (what we’re told) - what a joke

The Bear

@i_iratus

2 months

Today I learned that I have completely underestimated and misunderstood brain-fog post COVID - and it is terrifying. In my mind I kind of had this impression that COVID brain-fog was just feeling a little bit forgetful or feeling very tired, and my god I was very, very wrong.

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Lara Crowther

@fillthewhole

5 months

I was pro assisted dying. Like most I was naive & though it would be relief for the terminally ill. If you aren’t considering why the sudden rush globally after covid is disabling on mass, while politicians clamp down on disability benefits, you’re seeing what you want to see.

Buckinghamshire Disability Service BuDS

@BuDs_UK

5 months

#AssistedDying affects disabled people more than any other group. Yet our voices are rarely heard. We strongly support @thelizcarr in her campaign to prevent euthenasia of old, sick and disabled people.

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Lara Crowther

@fillthewhole

2 months

When people tell us we’re isolating from society because we’re antisocial (& mentally ill 🙄). Nope. We want to be an active part of society, we want to contribute. We long for caring communities like this. Even our families won’t do this for us 🤯

CaliforniaCodes

@CaliforniaCodes

2 months

Another amazing experience to share. #YallMasking This group of moms would move the world to keep our children safe, happy & healthy - masking is one of the easier sacrifices 🤷🏻‍♀️ Mom’s Midsummer Mocktails (tested, spaced while drinking 🍹 & masked 😷 when close)

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Lara Crowther

@fillthewhole

4 months

Kudos to this guy who was probably the only one in a packed stadium wearing a respirator. We all know hard it is to do this when (it feels like) the rest of the world has moved on. I hope it kept him safe today🤞🏼What an intelligent & self-assured guy 😍😷

Joe Oliver

@joeolivermd

4 months

Hey N95 Guy at the Germany Hungary @EURO2024 football game: YES.

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Lara Crowther

@fillthewhole

6 months

Layered defence is important. I also appreciate some people, especially teens might feel too self-conscious to continue masking alone at school. Our kids have had no days off school (& no symptoms) since incorporating these oral & nasal sprays into our morning routine.

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Lara Crowther

@fillthewhole

12 days

How embarrassing for the BBC to get community noted.

BBC News (UK)

@BBCNews

13 days

High-grade masks evidence weak, Covid inquiry told

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@fillthewhole

2 months

When people say ‘oh don’t worry I’ve just had covid, I can’t get it again for a while’ as an excuse for not masking 😑 Oh yeah, so which variant did you have?? Them: ‘what??’ Me: ‘well there’s more than one’ Them: ‘what??’ Me: 😵‍💫

Gwladwr

@gwladwr

2 months

SARS-CoV-2 Variants in Wales Relative frequencies of the seven most prominent variants, data to 30 June 2024 (GISAID data, @Mike_Honey_ chart)

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Lara Crowther

@fillthewhole

11 months

How many people know that if you have long covid you can’t give blood? It’s no big deal though, right? Right. 🫠

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Lara Crowther

@fillthewhole

2 months

Yeah the ‘your healthy lifestyle will save you from covid complications’ narrative needs to get in the bin. It’s simply untrue … ask the people suffering most.

Laurell K. Hamilton

@LKHamilton

2 months

Healthy lifestyles will not save you from long Covid. I was weightlifting in the gym two days a week and in the dojo for martial arts three days a week that was in 2022 and I’m still not back anywhere close to where I was.

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Lara Crowther

@fillthewhole

2 months

Good for them! 🙌 More of this 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

CoronaHeadsUp

@CoronaHeadsUp

2 months

Paris Olympics: Volunteers resign due to the lack of Covid-19 measures ".. we are more and more worried at the lack of any actions from the organizers to address the epidemic of Covid-19 that is still going on across Europe and the world." Le Club

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Lara Crowther

@fillthewhole

10 months

So some good news today. Had to go to my GP surgery today for bloods. Sign on entry ‘masks must be worn’, masks provided, all staff & all patients wearing masks. See, it can be done. This ‘patients won’t wear them’ is nonsense, they will if you tell them why.

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Lara Crowther

@fillthewhole

9 months

“The importance of ventilation and filtration is not lost on our lords and masters. Parliament now has a sophisticated air filter system, they ensure airborne viruses and bacteria are “kept to an absolute minimum within the space”. STILL not in schools!

We are all playing Covid roulette. Without clean air, the next infection could permanently disable...

As rich people plough money into ventilation to protect themselves, those with long Covid are treated as an embarrassment, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

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Lara Crowther

@fillthewhole

9 months

For all the ‘you’re bonkers’ I received pre-Christmas from family that I refused to see, they’re all now ill. Myself & my immediate family have had our first ‘well’ Christmas in 3 years & had a lovely time at home, just the 4 of us. If this is bonkers, I’m cool with it.

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Lara Crowther

@fillthewhole

10 months

Is this a joke? 😷😷😷

NHS

@NHSuk

10 months

Washing your hands with soap and water is one of the easiest ways to protect yourself and others from viruses like norovirus, flu and COVID-19 - and it helps reduce pressures on healthcare services. ➡️

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Lara Crowther

@fillthewhole

1 month

So can we have masks back in healthcare then please so we can access it safely?

The BMJ

@bmj_latest

1 month

"I’ve never recovered after being infected by covid during the first wave of the pandemic, so the prospect of reinfection is deeply troubling." Janet Gunter @LongCovidSOS explains how hard it is to limit her personal risk when there's little data on covid

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Lara Crowther

@fillthewhole

2 months

So China have been repurposing HIV meds since 2022 … the US are doing trials & the UK … are prescribing exercise & talk therapy … cool, cool 🙃

Melissa Challenor

@urbanmel

2 months

“An antiviral RCT for #LongCOVID by the Icahn School of Medicine, David @PutrinoLab , @polybioRF and Yale University has been registered on ClinicalTrials this week.” “Two repurposed HIV antivirals (TDF and Maraviroc) will be tested.” Fingers🤞🏻 #AirborneAIDS #SARSCoV2kills

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Lara Crowther

@fillthewhole

4 months

If you’re a parent, it’s important you don’t scroll past this, no matter how uncomfortable it makes you feel.

FutureSimon

@FutureSFB

4 months

@DaniBeckman As an ex-clinical virologist myself, this is one of the main things I try to make people understand. Most are intellectually stuck at “it’s just a really bad cold and as long as I am relatively healthy, I will be ok.” I show them this…

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Lara Crowther

@fillthewhole

24 days

People know but they do not want to openly connect the dots because they’d have to face their role in their loved ones’ (or strangers’) demise. That’s why I keep talking about it. I don’t want to hear the ‘this is so sad, if only we’d known’. You did know, we told you.

LadyInTheStudio - The Three Maskateers

@crimsonartist

25 days

I wonder how many people are dying after covid without anyone knowing. Like our friend who developed seizures immediately after infection then died suddenly. Coroner found no cause. A friend last week died after pneumonia. Had heart attack. What caused the pneumonia?

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Lara Crowther

@fillthewhole

5 months

Told a doctor yesterday we are entering another wave. They said ‘yes I know, our care homes are full of it’. I asked if their practice would reintroduce masking. Met with a very aggressive ‘No!’. This behaviour is not normal folks. Do HCWs genuinely believe covid is like flu??

Jim the hermit

@SleepyJim0

5 months

England, latest official ONS COVID report. Clear uptick like we’re at the beginning of another wave. Which is surprising given we’re into year 5 and surely there’s widespread and robust population immunity by now! ⚠️ sarcasm ⚠️

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Lara Crowther

@fillthewhole

1 month

Schools have become aggressive if you test your children for covid (quoting government guidelines). I will continue to test my children for covid & if they are positive they will not be attending school until they don’t have symptoms and are testing negative. Clean the air!!!

Julia Ransom

@JuliaRansom3

1 month

@educationgovuk I see this part was buried in the link to NHS guidance. 👇 "if your child has tested positive for COVID-19, they should try to stay at home and avoid contact with other people for 3 days after the day they took the test" #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne

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Lara Crowther

@fillthewhole

3 months

We are not talking enough about how covid misinformation is tearing families apart.

jas friedman @[email protected]

@FriedmanJas

3 months

I hate what public health has done Public health HAS DESTROYED relationships, families, children, healthy people, the vulnerable. I so want to rage! The sheer miscommunication, disinformation, misinformation is ruining our health, families and society @UKHSA @WHO @CDCGOV

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@fillthewhole

5 months

It’s probably not a good idea to keep smashing highly skilled, professional, working age folk (healthcare workers/teachers etc more at risk) with SARS-CoV2 if you’d like a functioning economy. #maskup

Moderna

@moderna_tx

5 months

There are more adults ages 35-49 living with #LongCOVID than any other age group. Long COVID can impact everyone, regardless of age or health status. The only way to not get Long COVID is to not get COVID. Learn more about Long COVID:

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@fillthewhole

25 days

And when that teacher dies in their sleep in the next two years from an arrhythmia for example? Then what? We all know what - ‘it’s just one of those things, it’s always happened’ 😡 Burnout - F*ck off!

Mel

@oskaandme

26 days

'Post COVID' teacher shortages Teacher suffering 'heart palpitations' & 'breathing issues' due to 'stress' 🤔

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Lara Crowther

@fillthewhole

2 months

Was in two minds whether to go to Trent Bridge today (never go anywhere!) but actually we need to be seen. FFP3, nasal spray, oral spray, mouthwash, sunglasses. Bisoprolol, Vitassium, painkillers. Front row seat 👍🏼 As safe as it can be. C’mon England! 🏏 #YallMasking Of course!

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Lara Crowther

@fillthewhole

10 months

For those that think you can’t catch covid outdoors … I caught the infection that triggered my Dysautonomia on Christmas Eve 2022 from a rugby game. By 29th December I was bed-bound & couldn’t even sit up to eat.

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@fillthewhole

3 months

Why are you all ok with what covid is doing to kids? Do you think it won’t be yours? Naive.

Hopeful

@Hopesaxons

3 months

@SammieFMc @thismorning @DrZoeWilliams @AlisonHammond My 12 yr old daughter caught Covid at school in Jan. We suspect it weakened her immune system - in Feb she had Strep. She was in hospital 4 10 days in March - unable to walk. She hasn’t been to school for 4 months and now has to use a wheelchair 😢 - she also has #Pans #Pandas

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@fillthewhole

2 months

Wear a respirator 😷 #WorldBrainDay2024

World Health Organization (WHO)

@WHO

2 months

It's #WorldBrainDay There is a lot you can do for a healthy brain 🧠: 🏃‍♂️ Keep physically active 🍌 Eat a healthy diet 😴 Get enough sleep 🧩 Stimulate your mind 💟 Look after your heart ⛑️ Wear a helmet

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Lara Crowther

@fillthewhole

4 months

I used to give blood 🩸 I am no longer allowed due to Long Covid. So many people still don’t know that that’s the case. Does it sound ‘psychological’ to you? Repeat infections, more Long Covid, where’s that going to leave blood donation? #WorldBloodDonationDay2024

Rachel

@rachelleese84

4 months

#worldbloodday - reminder for those who need it that I can’t give blood because I have ME (myalgic encephalomyelitis), fair enough, so don’t EVER suggest that ME is “in my head”, can be treated with CBT/mindfulness/brain training etc. It’s PHYSIOLOGICAL! #mecfs #millionsmissing

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@fillthewhole

10 days

It’s almost like they’re trying to get us to look forward to being chronically ill & needing a wheelchair as a consequence of forced repeat infection with SARS-CoV-2. Don’t worry, you’ll still be able to turn up to work & go out spending & do your bit for the economy. F*ck off.

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@fillthewhole

3 months

I had a Long Covid clinic appointment today. I was expecting to be discharged. Instead I had the most amazingly knowledgeable, compassionate, curious clinician & an extremely validating experience. I think it’s important to recognise a good consult done incredibly well 😍🙌🏻❤️

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Lara Crowther

@fillthewhole

6 months

The ongoing pandemic you mean? Something has gone wrong, yes - unmitigated spread of an airborne virus that has turned tens of thousands of highly qualified, highly skilled professionals into the ‘economically inactive’. This will continue indefinitely if covid is not addressed.

ITV News Politics

@ITVNewsPolitics

6 months

'Since the pandemic, something has gone wrong' Rishi Sunak says 850,000 more people are now economically inactive in the UK since Covid - and not calling out this 'worrying trend' for 'fear of causing offence' would be unjust

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Lara Crowther

@fillthewhole

3 months

Now get them in ALL hospitals. And if staff could not just wear them under their chins, we’d be grateful. Rates are higher in England now than they were in January. There are people who had covid in Jan just contacting their GPs about Long Covid. Don’t let it be you in 6 months.

BBC News (UK)

@BBCNews

3 months

Covid spike sees masks reintroduced at hospitals

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Lara Crowther

@fillthewhole

10 months

I should say I’ve been isolating to protect myself as two of my household have been positive since Saturday. There was nothing more I could do except move out of my house. When schools had masks, we had zero covid in our house despite my husband being a GP. Schools are a problem.

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@fillthewhole

3 months

I was a regular blood donor. Now I have Long Covid my blood can’t be used. I’m just glad I’m aware of my LC & therefore won’t harm anyone unknowingly. How many people donating have LC but don’t even know because doctors aren’t asking the right Qs?

Peter Stefanovic

@PeterStefanovi2

3 months

🚨 @GiveBloodNHS need your help to keep providing lifesaving blood to the NHS this summer☀️ They urgently need more blood from their O negative & B negative donors. 🩸 Giving blood is one of the most rewarding things I’ve done. Please book your next appointment here

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Lara Crowther

@fillthewhole

11 days

As a yoga teacher, scientist & also a Long Covid patient, I’m so embarrassed by this 🥴 Yoga won’t reverse brain damage caused by SARS-CoV-2. Sorry. It’s good but it’s not THAT good 😂

Jessica Wildfire

@JessicaLexicus

12 days

You know it's bad when they drag out the yoga poses.

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Lara Crowther

@fillthewhole

8 months

The people who know what long covid is are masking. That should tell you something.

Mike Hoerger, PhD MSCR MBA

@michael_hoerger

10 months

Headline: Scientists who study #LongCovid wear masks in public indoor spaces.

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Lara Crowther

@fillthewhole

3 months

Do doctors not care about their professional reputation anymore? Do any actually train to do the job or are they just training to use the letters to get TV jobs? This is purposeful misinformation (blatant lies!) that will cause harm. We’re keeping receipts.

BBC Morning Live

@BBCMorningLive

2 years

"Covid is now, on a case by case basis, less dangerous than the flu simply because so many people have had it". @xandvt on the updated list of Covid symptoms and his advice if you can't afford a test #MorningLive

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Lara Crowther

@fillthewhole

18 days

Just want to share the positives of my NHS cardio appointment yesterday to give those with Long Covid (& also those who are up-to-date with the covid evidence base) some hope. A thread 🧵

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Lara Crowther

@fillthewhole

8 months

So I posted something about long covid on Instagram this morning & the number of messages I’ve received - ‘why don’t we know about this?’ ‘Why isn’t this on the news?’. People honestly have no idea what covid is doing to their bodies. Absolutely clueless! Public health???

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@fillthewhole

20 days

In the BMJ this week. No mention of covid though. Odd. Also as a parent of teens, when they were toddlers, no I didn’t expect frequent viral infections, nor did they have them.

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@fillthewhole

9 months

Hi 👋 Never smoked, don’t drink alcohol, never taken drugs, wholefood keto diet, yoga/mindfulness teacher, personal trainer, well hydrated, didn’t access healthcare. Health was my life. Covid obliterated the lot, left me disabled with diagnoses mounting up. We’d like clean air.

World Health Organization (WHO) Western Pacific

@WHOWPRO

9 months

What's your healthy choice for 2024? #HappyNewYear2024 #NewYear

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@fillthewhole

4 months

It’s my birthday. It’s also my two year anniversary since I tested positive for the covid infection that set all the bad stuff in motion. This was me then. My life is very different today. Covid is still killing & disabling. It doesn’t have to be this way.

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@fillthewhole

9 days

3 weeks into school & already my youngest needs to stay off today. Eldest came home ‘best mate ill & off & everyone has a cold’. Of course we’re still testing for covid. Negative (so far). Time to invest in PlusLife I think. Wtf are we doing?! Why aren’t teachers screaming?

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@fillthewhole

2 months

How many people with Long Covid have tinnitus? I know so many (luckily I’m not one of them). It’s rarely talked about though outside of the community.

Good Morning Britain

@GMB

2 months

'The loud noise exposure would spike my tinnitus so bad to the point where, if I was sitting here right now, talking to you guys, I wouldn't be able to hear you.' Caris Lount’s tinnitus got worse when she was at University & at points she wouldn't leave her bedroom because of

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@fillthewhole

9 months

Not really tricky at all. If your child is ill, they should be off school. Let’s not pretend this is about children’s health or education - it’s about getting parents in work & dumping their sick kids (to infect everyone else’s).

NHS

@NHSuk

9 months

It can be tricky deciding whether or not to keep your child off school when they are unwell. Follow this advice on when to keep your child home: #BackToSchool

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@fillthewhole

5 months

“I choose to share this with you today, because the reality is: my chance to recover significantly depends on the collective choices we’ll make about preventing further cases, accurately measuring the disease burden, and finally learning to heal post-viral sequelae” …

Cat

@CovidSolidarit1

5 months

Zurich Insurance’s responsible investment head resigns because of long Covid

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@fillthewhole

15 days

What do you say to a doctor in 2024 that thinks the chances of inhaling SARS-CoV2 in a supermarket is slim because they … ‘don’t stand next to people’?? 😑 This from NHS in 2021. Clearly knew it was airborne & drifts through rooms like smoke. Ventilation, filtration & 😷 work

NHS

@NHSuk

3 years

When you’re inside with others, open windows regularly to stop COVID-19 hanging around.

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2 months

What a silly, selfish man.

BBC Sport

@BBCSport

2 months

After his bronze medal in the 200m, US Track and Field have confirmed Noah Lyles has Covid. #BBCOlympics #Olympics #Paris2024

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@fillthewhole

5 months

How have people not realised this yet? Keep your SARS receipts.

Dr Claire Taylor

@drclairetaylor

5 months

No one is looking out for staff. It’s not for your convenience that you don’t ‘have’ to test anymore. It means you cannot claim against your work for your health being destroyed overnight.

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2 months

“vigilance is important given the constant fear of infections and Covid incidents in the village. But she assures them there are mental health leads, psychologists, doctors and physios ready to help” Sorry, to help with what exactly?? 🤪

‘Culture is our superpower’: life in the Olympic Village with Team GB

Champion coffee, David Beckham and £70,000 of air conditioning – a look behind the scenes at the Team GB base

www.theguardian.com

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@fillthewhole

2 months

Every covid reinfection I get, I end up on another specialist referral; started at Long Covid clinic, then respiratory, cardio, endocrinology, rheumatology & now neurology. I’m just one person … this is happening to millions! Never attended GP pre-covid. Please start listening.

Wes Streeting MP

@wesstreeting

2 months

Today's figures reveal that NHS waiting lists grew again in June to 7.62 million. 14 years of Conservative neglect left the NHS broken, waiting lists rising, and patients failed. Never again should the Conservatives be trusted with our health service.

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@fillthewhole

10 months

Eldest off school last week with covid. Had a day at school and now off with D & V so another 48 hrs minimum. He’s in his GCSE year. Never had time off school pre-covid. This is not sustainable. Covid is wrecking immune systems.

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@fillthewhole

2 months

Good to see Mark Foster on BBC talking about covid and Adam Peaty. Mark had covid two weeks ago with a headache etc & commented he felt short of breath whilst just walking so absolutely covid would’ve impacted Peaty’s performance. The first person I’ve seen not play it down 👏🏼

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@fillthewhole

3 months

Good. More of this please 👇🏼

Long Covid Educators for Justice

@LCEducatorsUK

3 months

Hundreds of teachers with long Covid are suing the Department for Education (DfE) over its handling of the pandemic within schools, i can reveal…. #LongCovid #LCE4J @carolvorders @MarinaPurkiss @mrjamesob

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@fillthewhole

4 months

Wear a mask in healthcare FFS

Dr Dan Goyal

@danielgoyal

4 months

Seeing a big spike in Covid cases in the hospital This one looks more transmissible and may well cause major disruption in hospitals and care homes Only a few with lung problems, but for most it’s still knocking the stuffing out of them. Maybe time to think about boosters?

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3 months

So my dads cancer is back. Had a scan over 4 weeks ago & results came yesterday. He sat alone with it for 24 hrs before he told anyone. He’s had SARS-CoV2 at least twice since his last op & is on immunotherapy. I think I’m the only one in the family that isn’t shocked.

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15 days

I mean public health could just be honest about SARS-CoV2 spread, re-introduce masks in healthcare, tell people to ventilate buildings & wear a mask in public spaces for a start … would cut-down on ALL airborne disease. Just a thought.

PulseToday

@pulsetoday

15 days

NHSE instructs GPs to avoid hospital admissions this winter #winterpressures #hospitaladmissions #NHSpressures

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@fillthewhole

7 months

My sister had RA diagnosis after covid infection. No prior health problems & no family history. She’s waiting for double hip replacement. Can’t walk & in constant pain. Mid-40s. Just a cold 😑

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@fillthewhole

2 months

When people want to meet up & say ‘oh you can wear a mask if you want to’. Unless you are too then that would be a nope.

😷🦠☠️

@Violet_Kitteee

2 months

In case you didn’t get the memo…

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@fillthewhole

19 days

“I don’t want to normalise a mass disabling event”

Miles W. Griffis

@mileswgriffis

19 days

📢 The popular drag artist Themme Fatale has announced their retirement due to Long COVID: “That’s all folks: Live, laugh, look out for each other during a mass disabling event.”

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@fillthewhole

5 months

Are you for real?? You know it’s probably covid. You’ve said cases are rising. Encourage masking & you’d maybe stop more babies & kids dying from whooping cough & measles while you’re at it. Long Covid in kids doubled in a year. Despicable. #maskup #covidisnotover

UK Health Security Agency

@UKHSA

5 months

Is it a cold or hay fever? It can be hard to tell 🤧 Recent studies suggest that some types of pollen & other allergens could be released earlier in the year and for longer.

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@fillthewhole

19 days

Of course I was the only person in the hospital (cardio appointment) in a decent mask 😑 Saw 4 more … 3 on staff (surgical), 1 on patient (cloth). A lot of work to be done. I was also asked if I currently had a temp, new/continuous cough, D & V recently. Not likely in this.

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@fillthewhole

29 days

The replies are pretty clear! Kids are ill … you can do whatever you want but if you don’t address covid in schools attendance will not improve. HEPAs, ventilation, respirators, isolating when ill protect against ALL airborne disease. Start now!

HeadteacherChat

@Headteacherchat

1 month

Can anyone help? Any amazing ideas for improving attendance, particularly persistent absence?

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@fillthewhole

2 months

No mention of covid I see despite the swimmers falling like dominos 🙃

Sharron Davies MBE

@sharrond62

2 months

Up with chest infection, again, got it last year in Denver with ferocious U.S. air conditioning/temperature changes. French pharmacy staff were lovely helping with a bucket load of drugs yesterday but hard on a hot, absolutely crammed tube 4x a day. So excuse the crackly voice🤪

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@fillthewhole

9 months

Never thought a letter like this would be cause to celebrate 🎉 but grateful to have a cardiologist who takes chest pain post-covid seriously. Bypassed an echo & straight to cardiac stress MRI (🤢). Microvascular angina not uncommon after covid & women in particular being missed.

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@fillthewhole

3 months

My sister (40s) is in surgery now for a total hip replacement after covid infections caused her bones to simply crumble. I’m worried about her, especially as we’re in a covid wave, staff aren’t masking, hospitals are struggling & there’s a junior doctor strike at end of week.

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3 months

There are people walking around the UK at the moment with their mild ‘colds’ who will wake up a few months down the line with new (often debilitating) health issues that will have no idea it’s a result of their current covid infection. Test. Test again. Isolate. Wear a 😷

Ziyad Al-Aly, MD

@zalaly

4 months

While I talked about hospitalization in the previous tweet, I want to make it clear that most people with Long Covid had mild COVID-19. In fact, 90% of people with Long Covid had mild COVID-19.

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18 days

I came away feeling listened to by a clinician who was up-to-date with covid. Very, very rare. I was so grateful I came home & immediately filled out the online feedback 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

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2 months

Update on my dad. He went in for immunotherapy Friday (hasn’t been anywhere since). No masks in hospitals (he refuses also - ‘if I needed to, doctors would’). Yesterday admitted after two falls, fever - now on IV antibiotics for pneumonia. On top of cancer. Beyond livid.

Lara Crowther

@fillthewhole

3 months

So my dads cancer is back. Had a scan over 4 weeks ago & results came yesterday. He sat alone with it for 24 hrs before he told anyone. He’s had SARS-CoV2 at least twice since his last op & is on immunotherapy. I think I’m the only one in the family that isn’t shocked.

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@fillthewhole

1 month

Saw a neighbour today I haven’t seen for months, asked how they were; ‘We’re ok … oh except my grandchild hasn’t been to school in 9 months due to a post-viral syndrome & I had a blood clot in my leg last week’ 👀😑 Fine. Everything is fine.

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@fillthewhole

3 months

Good grief. How many people in the UK are like this at the moment? @UKLabour @wesstreeting it is now your responsibility to properly inform the public that covid is here, it never went away & it continues to kill & disable in every wave & that they need to stop spreading it!

Chris Turnbull

@EnemyInAState

3 months

WATCH: Brit shocked at getting Covid in July 2024 while attending super spreader events for the Euro Soccer Finals (in which England lost anyway) after wrongly believing they had immunity to the virus because they'd 'only had it once before'... I have a 'really tight chest' ...

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@fillthewhole

3 months

This has caught my family off guard too … if you’re someone who regularly suffers from hay fever you might not think to test but it’s prob covid atm. One of my sons thought he’d developed new onset hay fever, that was our cue to test.

Dr Zoë Ayres

@ZJAyres

3 months

It's covid, not allergies. 4th time I've had it, and my little girl is sick now too. We've been super careful, too.

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@fillthewhole

3 months

People think this only happened to doctors working in 2020 and the risk has decreased now. Quite the opposite. It’s happening more NOW. How many doctors can afford to not work? Who’s going to pay the mortgage?! Mind-blowing they’re not protecting themselves & they trust the gov!

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@fillthewhole

3 months

1 in 50 yet no-one testing & walking around with their ‘colds’

💜Gina 😷 SARS2 is Airborne 💚

@Saffiya_Khan1

3 months

Around 1 in 50 people have Covid in England. So how many politicians are trying to hide their infections? How many are still out canvassing and infected others, who may be more vulnerable, on the doorstep? Boris Johnson looked particularly ill in a video I saw of him recently.

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10 months

Urgent call for Covid-safe ventilation in schools - BBC News This was 2 years ago! How many children have long covid as a consequence of inaction? How many children have brought home covid & disabled/killed their parents/grandparents since?

Urgent call for Covid-safe ventilation in schools

Education unions make an urgent call for school-ventilation measures to limit Covid and "long Covid".

www.bbc.co.uk

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@fillthewhole

20 days

Nick Knowles: ‘I didn't want to tell anyone because I thought I wouldn't get a booking for work,” he admitted. “I kept it to myself." How many more people are hiding their Long Covid?

Data Report

@CovidDataReport

20 days

This article actually mentions Long Covid as the illness. Strictly Come Dancing star Nick Knowles battled 10 month illness

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@fillthewhole

6 years

My only wish is that people would believe that people like this 👇🏼 exist. They do. Not everyone is striving to make money. Not everyone wants to be famous. Not everyone acts to serve their own purpose. Some people genuinely just want to see other people #thrive 💕 #giftoflove

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@fillthewhole

9 months

Science teacher in the UK leading the way 🙌🏻 More examples like this please! Thank you for protecting your students & colleagues 😊

Nina Wildflower

@Ninawildflower

9 months

@fillthewhole @HandInHand123 If more Headteachers mask, it might give teachers and students the confidence to mask too. If any Headteachers want free advice and support with masking, get in touch.

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@fillthewhole

6 months

Lying about an airborne virus (putting up Perspex screens 😩 in restaurants to get people back spending while saying omicron was mild 😡) might have something to do with ‘sick note culture’. Working age people have been obliterated by multi systemic Long Covid 🧠 ❤️ 🫁 etc etc.

Good Morning Britain

@GMB

6 months

Rishi Sunak is set to call for an end to what he described as the 'sick note culture' in Britain. The Prime Minister is due to say that the default needs to be what work can you do? Not what you can't do.

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3 months

Everyone I know with covid is experiencing hay fever symptoms; sneezing, runny nose, sore eyes Please let us know your symptoms if you or anyone you know has covid right now …

Aftab Khan, MD

@aftab_usa

3 months

KP.2, KP.3, and LB.1 are dominant #Covid19 variants now. Common symptoms; Fever Shivering Cough Sore Throat Loss/Change in Taste or Smell Loss of appetite Nausea & Vomiting Diarrhea Shortness of breath Fatigue Body aches Headache Runny Nose.

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@fillthewhole

4 months

Neuroscientists know 😷

ISPRM

@ISPRM

4 months

David Putrino is presenting his keynote lecture "The Use of Technology in Rehabilitation." 🧠💻 David, a physical therapist with a PhD in Neuroscience, is the Director of Rehabilitation Innovation at Mount Sinai and works with elite athletes. #ISPRM2024

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10 months

Due to lifestyle changes 🫠 My own sister (in her 40s), no issues previous to covid is waiting for a double hip replacement because her bones are literally crumbling away & she’s bed-bound & in agony. A new RA diagnosis too. Enough!

Long Covid SOS

@LongCovidSOS

10 months

A significant reduction in bone mineral density was found in young adults in this study compared to before the pandemic Authors conclude that it might be due to 'lifestyle changes' infection with #SARSCoV2 not taken into consideration #LongCovid

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16 days

And this is how you do it

Covid Caution - KP.2, KP.2.3, KP.3.1.1, LB.1, XEC

@CovidCaution

17 days

The Berkeley Repertory Theatre (Bay Area, CA) has mandatory masked events on Sundays and Tuesdays. This is inclusiveness. This is community care. Vulnerable people deserve to experience life, too.

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2 years

@JDaviesPhD Cut out all processed foods (paleo), including no alcohol. Within 3 months was off antidepressants (which I’d been cycling on/off 15 yrs) & physical/mental transformation. I became more curious (& critical). Began yoga/meditation & morning sunlight. 8 yrs on now so sustainable.

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1. As soon as I walked in was told ‘you don’t have anxiety, covid is causing havoc. Start from the beginning & tell me what’s been happening’. Good start!

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@fillthewhole

13 days

So I thought my Covid IG stories were going ignored but over the last few weeks I’ve had people contact me saying; they’re now masking on planes, masking in healthcare, asking for other protections (which HEPAs to buy/nasal sprays) & even HCWs wearing FFP3s! Keep going folks!

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@fillthewhole

6 months

Of course I’m the only one in an FFP3 (or any mask) in the GP surgery.

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@fillthewhole

9 months

It’s mind-blowing that people would rather be ill over & over (not just with covid) rather than simply wearing a respirator in crowded places. Even wilder that they need to hear it from our government to know what to do 🤷🏼‍♀️

The i paper

@theipaper

9 months

Should we wear masks again? UK virus cases rise as Spain restores Covid rules @BawdenTom reports:

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@fillthewhole

16 days

‘Staff still struggling with trauma of covid’ in BMJ. Is that because we’re still IN covid? 😑

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@fillthewhole

28 days

Little health hiccup? 👀 We’re minimising stroke now? Cool, cool. I wonder if Brian had been made aware of the connection between covid & stroke? Has he been unwell with a ‘bug’ recently (given we’ve had a huge summer covid wave)? Risk of stroke, MI etc up for over a year 😷

Good Morning Britain

@GMB

28 days

Queen guitarist Brian May has revealed he has suffered a stroke that left him unable to use his arm. However, he said he can still play guitar despite, what he called, the 'little health hiccup'. @CharlotteHawkns has the latest.

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@fillthewhole

2 months

On declining a family Xmas invite … Them: ‘but you’re safe with us’ Me: ‘Actually it’s the least safe space for all of us’ A group of about 12 who don’t take precautions, don’t test, won’t isolate for the 3 day indoor gathering, at the worst time of the year. Hard pass 🦠

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@fillthewhole

9 months

@urbanmel This could’ve happened to me over Christmas. Family ‘well we’ll test on the day’. No thanks. Guess what? 3 families who met up over Christmas/NY now all have covid & still suffering today. That would’ve been my family 💯 if I hadn’t have held my nerve & said ‘No’

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29 days

@carolvorders Covid again?!!! Maybe this will be the infection that encourages you to talk about Long Covid & help us get clean air in schools. Kids deserve to be safe at school. Long Covid Kids has doubled in a year. I’m glad that you mentioned having covid publicly.

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@fillthewhole

9 months

The irony that I was a Personal Trainer, Yoga Teacher, ate wholefood keto, ran every day with my dog at 6am, was doing my PhD in mindfulness and now can’t walk around my village since having long covid. These idiots can fuck right off!

Carol L. Binks

@carolbinks

9 months

I’d be interested to know how many people who are too unwell to work are well enough to join a running club. 🤔 #Disability #ME Life coaches and running clubs to help get people back to work

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@fillthewhole

3 months

For those who don’t have access to the BMJ. It’s not really a Q is it? We know we’ve been in a summer wave since the start of June yet only now are doctors being told about it & recommendations being made. Masks in healthcare would’ve helped reduce this wave. How much LC to come?

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