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Long Covid and ME/CFS since 2022.
Here for learning and talking about Long Covid.
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Ginger Billie
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How do we know Covid and flu do not cause cancer and only severe bouts of it do?
I call bs. From what I’ve learned the past few years I don’t think any pathogen has a net positive or zero effect.
It seems net negative long term, but to what extent is up for grabs.
THIS.
New Study Reveals Long COVID's Burden and Costs on Dutch Healthcare Systems.
University of Groningen study of 150,000 adults shows long COVID patients use almost all healthcare services more than those who recovered fully from COVID or were never infected.
In a large-scale study from the Netherlands people with "long COVID used nearly every type of healthcare service more frequently than those who recovered fully from COVID or were never infected", underscoring LC disease burden
#LongCovid
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/pap...
As a doctor with #ME/CFS, this is probably the worst disease that exists.
Reasons:
1) ME/CFS has a worse quality of life then almost any other disease including COPD, most cancers, most heart attacks, strokes, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, etc.
www.reddit.com/r/mecfs/comm...
Taking a much needed break from Trump madness with my new Substack post focused on science, medicine, and emerging potential therapeutics for complex illnesses like Long Covid and ME/CFS. Please enjoy, comment, subscribe.
dlkmd.substack.com/p/complex-ch...
Dr Elisa Perego
NYT Opinion: 'Turning to ChatGPT for Help'
'In our experience, many doctors have not bothered to learn even basic facts about long Covid, even though about 20 million to 40 million Americans suffer from it. Long Covid’s symptoms can be debilitating..'
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/13/o...
"What COVID is teaching doctors about the relationship between viruses and cancer"
"COVID and flu do not cause cancer under themselves," but severe COVID "can help reactivate those existing cancers" by waking up dormant cancer cells normally controlled by the immune system.
archive.md/Gq2jB
Why the Lights at the End of the Chronic Illness Tunnels are Growing Brighter
Can every infection become a chronic disease?
san.com/cc/can-every...
@scienceforme.bsky.social weekly update summary:
The article asks if the true burden of infectious diseases is larger than previously anticipated. Interviews with among others Ziyad Al-Aly and Amy Proal.
#LongCovid #MEcfs
Denis - The COVID Info Guy
Billy Hanlon
Hope looks like 🌈🌈
“At a certain point, I stopped waiting for that one medication to magically make all my symptoms disappear. Instead, I began to believe that I could have a good life even with this illness.”
Long Covid has plagued many overachievers like myself and it’s a hard adjustment.
