Find_The_Differences @FindTheDiff

Celebrity Describes Long Covid In Detail While Reassuring Public No It Is Not That

1. Remember that any attempt to paint Long Covid as psychogenic in nature deliberately and completely incorrectly biologically decouples SARS-CoV-2 infection from Long Covid. In essence, this rhetoric shifts the causative factor for LC from the virus to the patient's mind.

Keeping things light for the kids is okay as long as there’s serious stuff going on behind the scenes. But there isn’t, is there? Everyone is focusing solely on keeping things light “for the sake of their mental health”. No one is dealing with the difficult stuff.

@I_need_a_razor I think it depends how you define long covid. If you mean the syndromatic presentation you and I share, no. If you mean damage following a covid infection that persists beyond 6 months- which could mean a migraine disorder, an autoimmune condition, heart damage, (1/2)

I never understood the term "homophobia". Anti-gay bigotry and discrimination is indisputable, but "phobia"? It just didn't seem like the right word. And then I began to see the reactions to Long COVID and it finally clicked for me. Media coverage of Long COVID is steeped in the language of fear. Specific words and phrases get repeated over and over, almost like a mantra of collective denial. Take this short blog published in Science yesterday. To the untrained reader, this might appear to be an article sympathetic to people who suffer from Long COVID, and while it is, it's also obvious that the writer is deathly terrified of the subject. You can see it from the headline itself "The Causes of Long Covid". There's only one cause of Long COVID, and everyone knows exactly what it is: getting infected with COVID. What the writer actually meant was "the causes of Long COVID symptoms" which is more ambiguous and contested. By shortening the headline, he's subtly reinforcing the idea that Long COVID and COVID itself are unrelated; casting doubt on the possibility that a simple COVID infection can be the reason so many otherwise young and healthy people are now disabled. Making it just a little less frightening. Then the first paragraph. "Most people recover quite well - I’ve had the damn virus more than once myself and haven’t noticed any particular long-term effects" Before he even starts discussing Long COVID, he has to set the stage - COVID isn't so bad, most people are fine! Look at me! - Even if this were true (and it's not clear that it is true) why does this sentence need to be included? Do articles written about cancer include a sentence in the beginning acknowledging that the writer doesn't have cancer? I've never seen one written like that. Perhaps it's because, while cancer is scary in its own way, society doesn't have the same collective fear and denial of its existence. Then we get to the conflation, another common trope. Long COVID is just like other post viral conditions, he writes. Maybe it's just like Lyme. Don't be frightened, you see, it's nothing new or novel. Nothing humans haven't dealt with for decades, maybe longer. At one point he declares explictly that Long COVID could be a "variety" of Fibromyalgia. You know, that thing your aunt had? No one really liked her. She always seemed kind of weird at Christmas. The article could have had all of these things removed, and it wouldn't have impacted the content one bit. Yet, they're there. Included as emotional dampening. We can't scare the children, after all.

1/ Long COVID is one of the most complex post-infectious syndromes ever studied. A new review in Nature Communications Medicine attempts to unify the biology. Here’s what’s established, what’s emerging, and what’s still speculative. 🧵

– Help! – But have you tried just ignoring the water? #longcovid #postcovid #ableism #satire

The Toll of Pediatric Long COVID An Infectious Diseases study shows children with long COVID face a symptom burden that meets or exceed other chronic health conditions. These children report worse fatigue and sleep issues than kids with cancer or autism. respiratory-therapy.com/disorders-dise…

We must be crystal clear about a few points. Long Covid is not a "poorly understood neuroimmune disorder" with no biomarkers. It is a widely studied biological medical condition. Pathology spanning basically all body systems is well documented, with damage in situ across organs

Retinal microvascular alterations consistent with endothelial dysregulation in paediatric post-COVID-19 syndrome: A prospective matched-cohort study 🚨More “hidden” post-COVID damage in children! Kids with long COVID show blood-vessel damage in their eyes, persistent, with partial & slow reversibility in some, still clearly abnormal months after one infection (retinal scans prove it)! ➡️German study design: - Prospective matched-cohort; 58 children (7–17 yrs) with paediatric post-COVID-19 syndrome (chronic phase) vs. 58 healthy controls (matched age/sex/BMI), - Retinal vessel analysis (static: CRAE/CRVE/AVR + dynamic flicker vasoreactivity) at baseline, and ~14-week follow-up, - Single-infection chronic PCS kids, ➡️Main findings: - Markedly wider central retinal arterioles (+28.1 μm, p<0.001) and venules (+21.7 μm, p<0.001) + higher AVR (+0.038, p=0.005), independent of BP or confounders, - Pattern = endothelial dysregulation, ➡️Longitudinal changes: - No overall group improvement at follow-up, - Kids with largest baseline venular dilation & reduced flicker response showed greatest recovery, - Longer follow-up + reduced symptoms → venular narrowing & AVR improvement, ➡️Implication: - First in-vivo evidence of persistent microvascular alterations in paediatric PCS, detectable non-invasively, ➡️Conclusion (paper): - “This study provides the first in-vivo evidence of altered retinal microvascular parameters in children and adolescents with PCS… persistent alterations in microvascular regulation several months after SARS-CoV-2 infection… heterogeneous, time-dependent changes… some patterns consistent with partial normalisation.” ‼️So paediatric post-COVID-19 syndrome causes long-lasting endothelial dysfunction in the microvasculature, visible months after infection, confirming a biological, vascular basis for kids’ persistent symptoms (not psychosomatic or transient). This isn’t “mild” anymore. It never was! This is measurable microvascular damage and remember: a second COVID infection DOUBLES their risk of Long COVID (Lancet Infect Dis 2026, RR 2.08). #AvoidSars2 #AvoidReinfections #ChildrenCovid19 thelancet.com/journals/lanin… nature.com/articles/s4159…

Chen at al., Pediatric Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Taiwan: Insights from the DISCOVER Cohort. pediatr-neonatol.com/article/S1875-…

Child can recover from COVID. Their routine tests can look normal. Yet more sensitive testing may still detect abnormalities in the lungs, immune system, quality of life, and possibly even the heart. A new review from Taiwan's DISCOVER cohort helps explain why🧵

Harry Spoelstra @HarrySpoelstra

4 days ago

Pediatric Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Taiwan: Insights from the DISCOVER Cohort 🚨We’ve called for caution and we’ll do it again!! #OurChildren #Omicron Even MILD paediatric COVID isn’t harmless. ➡️INTERESTING new Taiwan DISCOVER cohort (n≈500 kids, mean

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Excellente contribution et rôle exemplaire de @SusScro58355800 dans le cadre du CAS en santé publique ! 👏🙏 x.com/i/status/20622…

Harry Spoelstra @HarrySpoelstra

4 days ago

Pediatric Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Taiwan: Insights from the DISCOVER Cohort 🚨We’ve called for caution and we’ll do it again!! #OurChildren #Omicron Even MILD paediatric COVID isn’t harmless. ➡️INTERESTING new Taiwan DISCOVER cohort (n≈500 kids, mean

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@SusScro58355800 Bravo pour la présentation et merci de votre rôle exemplaire 😷 ! Si seulement cela pouvait réveiller certains acteurs de la santé publique, hélas profondément endormis pour l heure... 😴

« C’est dramatique » : diabète de type 2, infarctus… Les jeunes ont de plus en plus « des maladies de vieux » ➡️ l.leparisien.fr/INle

"The cardiologist seeing new dysautonomia, the endocrinologist seeing new metabolic disease, the neurologist seeing unexplained cognitive complaints—some of these presentations are long COVID arriving without the label that would connect them to a COVID-19 infection."

Ceci arrive partt, même en 🇫🇷. "Près d’1⃣ parent d'enfants souffrant de covid long / d'EM sur 4⃣ a subi un signalement au bureau de protection de l'enfance pour mise en danger du bien-être de l’enfant!" L'ignorance sur ces maladies conduit à penser q les parents sont maltraitants

GardenRebellion 🎗️ @NobleRingleader

a week ago

Gerade über eine Umfrage von @NGKGermany gestolpert: Fast ein VIERTEL aller befragten Eltern von Kindern mit #LC oder #MECFS erlebten eine Meldung an das Jugendamt wg. Kindeswohlgefährdung! ngk4family.org/materialien-un…

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⚠️‼️ I came across this news in Spain, and this discourse keeps doing enormous harm. The post literally says: “A study from Hospital del Mar reveals a worrying connection between childhood trauma and physical diseases in adult life. From headaches to diabetes, adverse childhood experiences could leave marks on our health. Early prevention has never been so crucial.” “A study from Hospital del Mar details numerous physical diseases linked to childhood trauma.” Not because they literally said that most organic diseases are caused by childhood trauma, but because in practice, many of the diseases they attribute to or reduce to trauma end up being organic diseases whose biomarkers have not yet been discovered, or whose proper medical workup was never even done. And that is the real problem. For years, many patients are first filtered through the lens of trauma, psychosomatic illness, or somatization, when in reality what they have is an organic disease that has simply not yet been diagnosed. I would even go further and say that this also happens with diseases we now understand well: before reaching the right specialist and before the appropriate tests are performed, many patients are treated as if the origin of their symptoms were psychological or trauma-related, simply because nobody has investigated their case properly. That is not precision medicine. That is a way of covering diagnostic ignorance with a psychological narrative. The history of medicine shows this again and again: many diseases that in their early stages were treated as “nervous,” “hysterical,” or “psychosomatic” later turned out to be well-defined organic diseases. This happened with multiple autoimmune, neurological, and inflammatory diseases. And it is still happening today. That is why this discourse is so dangerous. Because it not only delays the real diagnosis, but also blames the patient, isolates them, sends them into the wrong clinical pathways, and steals years of serious medical investigation from them. Most of these patients do not need their illness to be explained through trauma. They need the right tests, the right specialist, and serious investigation of their real biology instead of convenient theories being projected onto them. Enough of turning the absence of known biomarkers into a psychological explanation. What some people today call trauma or somatization too often ends up tomorrow having a name, a mechanism, and a biological marker.

@jeffgilchrist Does this mean that wearing a mask when you're sick is a very bad idea for yourself? And therefore, that recommendations like “wear a mask when you're sick” benefit others but could actually make the sick person's condition worse?

If their hypothesis is true, improving air filtration and air quality not only protects others from catching your sickness but also helps protect you from your own sickness. 16/