My latest short film “ANTIVIRALS NOW” is about creating the OUTRAGE against gov negligence for allowing SARS2 persistence to spread unchecked & the empathy we must collectively feel to
#ConfrontLongCovid
& mobilize congress to fund novel antiviral research
In the ER
#SaltingTheVibes
because Long Covid can give you shingles at age 42 when you’re working overtime on helping scientists establish LC biomarkers
#SARSCoV2
10 days (+)
7 days (-)
Now, day 18 (+) again
We are ill-informed
@CDCDirector
about how SARS2 works, how long COVID-19 infections last, how to test, & the life-altering & life-threatening consequences of developing Long Covid.
Take action 🔗
#JN1
“Covid deaths are down by 90%” Biden
#SOTU
Yet, Long Covid is everywhere. It’s crippling families & the economy, there’s no cure or treatment, no gov committee…& a Harvard study this week reported 44% of nurses developed long Covid out of 1900 infected. This is an emergency.
The way you prevent long Covid, is to not be infected w/ Covid. My wife’s diet & her physical activity could not have stopped this from happening. There’s no magic beans 🫘
#vaccineinjuries
#LongCovidKids
#COVID19
“Today Covid no longer controls our lives” Biden
#SOTU
Speak for yourself Mr. President, there are millions of us who’s lives were stolen by Long Covid & we’re not going to sit back & allow our lives to remain threatened by an army of reinfections
Y’all Masking? 🔥 ☀️
Long Covid is the fastest growing disease in the US w/ testing indicating SARS-CoV-2 Viral Persistence as a driving mechanism. Every infection increases the risks of developing LC & VP. Protect yourself, protect your community.
#YallMasking
The title should be “No One Knows If You Can Prevent Long Covid, But We’re Certain Every Infection Puts You At Risk” because that’s essentially what it says - the evidence is clear that neither vaccines or paxlovid do the job & they’re dancing around it
Potential source of Parkinson’s disease discovered: “strains of Desulfovibrio bacteria are likely to cause PD. The disease is primarily caused by environmental factors, that is, environmental exposure to the Desulfovibrio bacterial strains”
#longcovid
My mild Covid infection turned into 2+ years of Long Covid - w/ signs of LC remaining dormant until 30-60 days after initial Covid symptoms when a pure inferno took hold. Bottom line is no Covid encounter is mild - do whatever you can to protect yourselves.
#keepmasksinhealthcare
"In the current understanding of what happens when a virus enters the brain, there are two outcomes, either cell death or inflammation, but we've shown a third possible outcome, which is neuronal fusion."
#longcovid
#sarscov2
#longcovidkids
36% prevalence of Long Covid among university students who were mandated to be “fully vaccinated” is not the narrative media/government are telling the public about Covid vax reinfection/risk. This headline is now top of the
@LongCovidAP
billboard list
New research pointing Long Covid to Viral Persistence regardless of vaccination status: “All tissues analyzed showed the presence of SARS-CoV-2 genomic RNA…even among those cases who had been COVID-19 vaccinated…[also] presence Omicron sub-variants”
Worldwide 70x more people have been killed by COVID than weapons of mass destruction.
2x as many Americans died from SARS-CoV-2 than all U.S. wars combined.
Long Covid is the fastest growing disease in America.
COVID-19 inaction by political parties is killing Americans.
Note
@washingtonpost
“He’s no longer seeing any health care provider for long COVID, citing frustrations over hearing his extreme fatigue being described as “annoying” rather than life-changing, & prescribed physical therapy [crashing] his energy”
Win 🔥 I just heard from a rep who read the LCAP
#CureLongCovidLetter
- they're now taking steps to include our demands to "Establish ≥$28 Billion in Funding for Long Covid Programs & Research" in budget hearings for 2024. Keep sending letters!
🔗
In November 2023, David Cutler, health economist and professor of economics at Harvard University, verified to Public Herald’s investigative journalist
@JoshuaPribanic
(also founder of LCAP) that an ask of $28 billion for Long Covid is reasonable, “an amount equal to HIV funding,
Today I turned 41,000 yrs old
#LongCovid
Any palm readers out there want to take a crack at this? 🔮
What LC symptom do we call this? When do I get my fkn honorary wizard staff
@POTUS
?
Do we need to start a Long Covid Daily Show cause this shit is getting deeper & deeper into a propaganda state, except in this case we’re talking about a BSL-3 virus that’s airborne…”we’re in a better place…we have common sense strategies now like washing your hands” 😂 wtf
Children do not have a better life w/ SARS-CoV-2 raging. Over 6M US children battle Long Covid. They have no blood 🩸 test, no biomarkers, no treatment, no NIH focus on viral persistence, no social support, no respirator mandates.
They have NO LEGISLATION for
#LongCovidKids
.
The American Rescue Plan is proof that – when we have the political will – the federal government can dramatically reduce childhood poverty and make life better for working families across this country.
How can you get involved in the discussion about the
#climatecrisis
? Join us,
@MarkRuffalo
,
@pearl_remote
+ ten orgs from around the world on March 13 for a virtual Youth International Screening of INVISIBLE HAND + a youth-led panel of climate activists: .
@CDCDirector
It’s a relief that you’re feeling better, but if it took you more than two weeks to return to work then in all decency the CDC guidelines need revisited to be updated beyond 5 days for the rest of us.
I wear a respirator to help protect everyone from
#SARS2
. Stop letting government run society off a disability cliff. Long Covid could be one infection away from turning your life or a loved one’s life into inferno. We can end this - demand a cure for LC.
#longcovidawareness
If you don’t know what Rights of Nature is, checkout our award-winning documentary INVISIBLE HAND w/
@MarkRuffalo
where we unveil this global movement fighting injustice for Nature, & demanding serious paradigm shifting action:
If Long Covid proves to be a condition caused by viral persistence then Omicron is a variant who’s ability to escape immune system ‘killers’ by shutting down the T cell alarm system only hypothesizes the likeliness of it being a strong mutation for more LC
Protecting soldiers = solving Long Covid. Dear Congress, a soldiers health comes 1st “Researchers say they believe more than 40,000 veterans connected to VA healthcare are suffering from long COVID, based on reviews of department cases”
#LongCovidAwareness
@CDCDirector
Tell the CDC what’s really going on w/ COVID-19 & how we need common sense protections like RESPIRATORS IN HOSPITALS! They’re cc’d here - write your letter
Living w/ Long Covid can mean your feet turn purple, your eyes turn red, & your head turns on fire 🔥 we need
@JoeBiden
to hold a
@WhiteHouse
press conference about this condition & the billions it’s going to take to solve it. Pay attention
@POTUS
#LongCovidAwareness
Confirmed by leading Long Covid researcher
@microbeminded2
:
1. Long Covid is new & novel
2. Long Covid’s major driver & area of research: SARS persistence
3. ME & LC are not =. Both can be viral persistence, origins/pathogen activity biologically different
#LongCovidKids
When it says Paxlovid reduces Long Covid by X% = every major news headline, but if it says “Resistance to Paxlovid is already evident among viral SARS-CoV-2 variants currently circulating globally” = no major news headline
@pfizer
As waves of Covid-19 narratives build, a new article in
@Salon
points out how SARS-CoV-2 infections can lead to Long Covid at all ages in ways that mirror neurodegeneration “long COVID patients are possibly experiencing early stages of neurodegeneration”
That’s code for SARS2 vaccines are not working, mutations outsmarting pharma: “JN.1 may evade our immune systems & dodge protection built up from previous infection & vaccination…it may replicate faster” we need real antivirals now
@CDCDirector
@BernieSanders
Declare Long Covid a National Emergency 🆘 pass new legislation for novel antivirals w/ $28B allocated annually for LC viral persistence research & programs. Tell Bernie Sanders & the HELP committee to take action by sending your letter to congress & NIH
So, Long Covid in wildlife - we know this has to be happening…another story that’s not being told. I feel like we need another letter to government just to give voice to Nature, as it’s completely discarded in discussions, or amend our existing one
Today I heard about 2 parents, one receiving care & one watching over as caretaker. Hospital wheeled a patient into the room w/out checking them for Covid. Both parents were infected & one of them died. US hospitals are killing people.
#SARSCoV2
#LongCovid
Dear
@elonmusk
, we understand twitter’s working out issues, but is there any way you can lift the wrongful suspension of our friend Junior who’s battling
#LongCovid
? This illness is incredibly isolating & twitter is one place we all come together in solidarity. Sincerely
The US is lying about Long Covid deaths & trying to redefine LC to exclude deaths associated w/ heart disease, neurodegenerative & gut related causes & so on. Long Covid Kills at a greater rate than any of us are being led to believe & by damage associated w/ viral persistence
Long Covid Kills. ☠️
The US hid the data by juking the stats 📉.
New study finds anomalies between Italy 📈 & US deaths 📉 via SARS-CoV-2 & Long Covid wherein different “methods” chosen in US can explain lower registered LC deaths by
@CDCgov
.
“The overall number of deaths
I didn’t go to the emergency room for a broken leg. I went 3x times because I was near death from Long Covid. Everyday there are lethal signatures of Long Covid sewn throughout my body. Death is a real threat for those of us living w/ this disease. Do not attempt to minimize it.
Viral persistence is a scientific fact for SARS-CoV-2 as
@PutrinoLab
points to in this video & it’s fringe science to turn against this & not demand novel antivirals. Orgs & influencers need to stop muddying the
#LongCovid
waters w/ hypothetical beliefs.
COVID👉Long COVID👉AIDS
Don’t think you need an HIV/AIDS approach for Long Covid…this is 2003 SARS1 “anti-viral strategy that targets the viral-induced membrane fusion step can be adopted from HIV-1 to SARS-CoV”
SARS2 is frighteningly AIDS capable
Holy shit, this is your headline “During that time, more than 1,900 participants contracted COVID-19. Among these, 44 percent developed long COVID” - this is alarming 🚨 forget whatever stretches they make about lifestyles being consistent for 5yrs - 44% long Covid rates!
Children infected by SARS-CoV-2 have persistent virus hidden in tissues or fluids throughout the body. This kind of biomedical evidence conveys a medical emergency w/ national security implications. We need a Ryan White Care Act for Long Covid immediately. Cure Long Covid.
“11 studies reported the persistence of SARS-CoV-2, or parts, in children's tissues or biological fluids for weeks/months after acute infection. Time between the initial infection [&] examination ranged from 4 to 303 days”
#LongCovidKids
#LongCovid
Long Covid is everywhere. In an interview today w/ a film festival they asked about my LC & went into how a cousin who has battled this for 4 yrs feels like they have dimentia. This disease is slaughtering America 🇺🇸. Where are our antivirals? 💊
@POTUS
@SenSanders
@RepPressley
Not one mention of viral persistence. I cannot stress how important it is as a journalist writing about Long Covid to cite & discuss viral persistence if you’re trying to create a discussion around anything associated w/ SARS-CoV-2. Every study looking for it, finds it.
#fatigue
🛑I wrote about what “fatigue” really means for people with long COVID and ME/CFS, and why this profoundly debilitating symptom is so often misunderstood and trivialized.
(This piece also covers PEM.) 1/
"The spike protein has the capability to change your soluble clotting protein to insoluble little microclots and that's where everything starts…vascular damage in endothelial damage and you will have a micro cloud presence in some individuals”
#longcovid
People no longer earn a weekly wage due to Long Covid.
U.S. Long Covid costs 📈 are $3.7T over 5yrs - economist David Cutler stated LC needs legislation = to HIV/AIDS at $28B annually. Grassroots LC activists responded w/ HEAL.
Where is your economic policy change in Moonshot?
The top 1% have never had it so good.
They are making money hand over fist.
At the same time, weekly wages for the average worker are nearly $50 less than they were 50 years ago.
What does that say about American economic policy?
Cornell University Molecular Biology professor
@DrMaureenHanson
says concluding Long Covid & ME/CFS are identical is unwarranted w/ current data identifying unique differences in both symptoms & etiology - challenging Harvard’s Michelle Williams LC/ME conflation
@statnews
piece
I just wrote the
@LongCovidAP
letter "Find a Cure For Long Covid" & told gov that Economist David Cutler says we need ≥$28 billion annually now! 11 demands articulate this in the letter.
Write your letter here:
Be Loud.
Take Power.
Fight Long Covid!
This sincerity & frustration lives w/ me everyday on Long Covid Island - much of 2022 felt like “nobody knows what to do next” but I’m optimistic that 2023 will be the year over 23 million people scream Long Covid & congress will jump. Solidarity
Anything pointing Long Covid to neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson’s is extremely bad & increases the need for emergency attention from
@POTUS
@NIH
In short, loss of gray matter equals loss of brain cells. It’s found in diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. Now, it’s being found in Long Covid patients. The participant’s ages ranged from 22-60. All were formally healthy and had mild acute onset.
@wendydheard
I’m sorry to hear you’re going through this. I was in the same position almost 2yrs back. Here are the top things that helped: 1. Low histamine diet (check mast cell 360) 2. Increase intake magnesium/coQ10/niacin 3. Sea salt mineral water 4. Serrapeptase & nattokinase 5. Ginseng
We are “looking at [our] deathbeds” w/ Long Covid
Viral persistence by an airborne pathogen w/ AIDS-like ability to kill your immune system is a national security threat & demands $28bn 🔄 from the American government🇺🇸
#SARS2
#AntivralsNow
Story 🔗
By Monday we'll have over 300K
#CureLongCovid
letters. This is now the largest Long Covid action in the U.S. It's 100% grassroots truth to power! LCAP achieved what some thought was impossible — solidifying a voice for LC. Join the movement!
#DemandHELP
🔗
I just signed, The CARE for Long COVID Act letter. Ask your elected officials to cosponsor the CARE for Long COVID Act today! This will try to create the initial investments to support long COVID patients.
@PandemicPatient
#advocacy
#longcovid
@timkaine
An excellently worded article by
@tesskou
about Long Covid risks from reinfections “It is akin to playing Russian roulette” along w/ 🎯 language about SARS2 forcing itself into T cells “to activate the cell's self-destruction programming & implode”
Hospital workers deserve the right to sue their employers if the work environment creates a 27% risk of having your life as you know it taken away from you & replaced w/ inferno. Long Covid isn’t going anywhere anytime soon - demand respirator mandates
@ClevelandClinic
@UPMC
Study finds 27% rate of long COVID in infected health workers
Multiple
#COVID19
infections were predictive of developing
#LongCOVID
Photo: Hospital Clinic / Flickr cc
They’re creepy, they’re crawly, and they’re an excellent indicator of water quality - Learn how aquatic insects help us gauge the health of Pennsylvania’s rivers, lakes, and streams:
@AshishKJha46
@POTUS
Long Covid is dominating millions of lives in America. Vaccines are not stopping Long Covid. We need a cure, we need treatment, we need funding, we need acknowledgment, & we need warp speed action from this administration yesterday.
Symptoms decreased AFTER 5yrs w/ Long Ebola, but still greatly impact their lives…but u don’t risk reinfection w/ Ebola every 3 months…Long Covid is a new paradigm in our history of illness; what other virus can do what SARS-CoV-2 is doing through LC?
It’s in our bones. SARS-CoV-2 viral persistence is in our bone marrow. There are reservoirs of SARS2 being found all over the body & tied to Long Covid.
@NIH
RECOVER must be forced to change trial focus to antivirals to see if anything can stop these reservoirs.
@RepAnnaEshoo
🧵 on our preprint with
@ZaidYounes9
and team
In this study, we delve deep into COVID pathophysiology to show that:
SARS-CoV-2 infects the human bone marrow megakaryocytes, and this shapes the trajectory and severity of the illness by triggering ...
🔗
@RepRashida
💯 it’s critical we establish an emergency Long Covid committee to fast track trials & treatment - & a permanent wing dedicated to chronic illness at the
@NIH
. Without either, our Democracy will be crippled if the massive growth of disability from Covid19 continues
Study confirms PD hypothesis “the detection of viral proteins in the substantia nigra and the vagal nuclei support the notion that..SARS-CoV-2, may predispose, or precipitate, the development of neurodegenerative diseases, especially Parkinson’s Disease”
How powerful is the
#longcovid
community? In two days we organically reached hundreds of thousands of people on Twitter from The New Republic letter
@PublicHerald
+ hit the top 3 spots for Google News & Top Stories! Our strength in numbers when united is not to be trifled with.
Solidarity to everyone w/ LC & all those suffering from chronic & lethal health conditions who could not be w/ family today because we have a government & society unwilling to mitigate the spread of SARS-CoV-2.
& to cultures suffering the trauma of a colonizing holiday.
@AshishKJha46
Will
#XBB15
症状 cause an increase in Long Covid? Yes. Will Long Covid seriously affect your health? Yes. Is there a treatment for Long Covid? No. Has the
@WhiteHouse
declared Long Covid a public emergency & issued operation warp speed measures for solutions? No. Why? No answer
Duquesne University Scientist Says State’s Water Testing For Fracking Chemicals Cannot Be Trusted “
@PennsylvaniaDEP
’s practice or policy in collecting these water samples, in my opinion as a scientist, is invalid.”
Not at any point in this speech did I hear
@ewarren
deliver a genuine original message - all of it sounded like a plagiarized watered down regurgitation of
@BernieSanders
2016 campaigns but w/out the credit - it feels dishonest
#dreambig
#cometogether
#bernie2020
Calling all hands on deck - what NIH has done to the Long Covid community through RECOVER can no longer be without action. Time to fight back & demand accountability. We are not defined by 12 points. I will not stand by as children who need LC care get locked out for 6 months.
LCAP has started an NIH Committee to draft the Long Covid community’s concerns regarding both the NIH press release & RECOVER paper published in JAMA. If you’re willing to volunteer your time/skill on this committee please send us a DM.
Be Loud.
Take Power.
Fight Long Covid.
@DLeonhardt
Congratulations, you managed to write an entire article on ☠️ Covid-19 w/out once mentioning
#LongCovid
- the fastest growing crisis the global population faces from SARS-CoV-2 which will undoubtedly lower life expectancy.
I’m sure this is a reliable report
#massdisablingevent
“If u can hear my voice & u know 2 or 3 people who have COVID…that 5% to 10% of your friends already have COVID. That means there’s a lot of COVID out there & we’re not testing for it.” Dr. Birx
We’re living in a ‘Fantasy World’ 💯
#LongCovid
This THE 🩸 transcriptomic viral load test we’ve been highlighting at LCAP & to the press since it came out - shouting for NIH to open access to its SARS2 transcriptomic viral load tests to people w/ Long Covid that’s in use behind closed doors
#AntiviralsNow
#ViralLoadTestsNow
A new story by
@JessicaLexicus
is a red alert 🚨 to Long Covid activists. It tells how
@BernieSanders
Moonshot bill provides less than 1% of what’s needed for Long Covid research, treatment & social support 💰helping congress bury LC w/ 10yrs of immunity
Are you kidding me
@Harvard
“The researchers analyzed data from more than 32,000 female nurses in the Nurses’ Health Study II, who reported on lifestyle in 2015 and 2017 and reported history of SARS-CoV-2 infection from April 2020 to November 2021.” Lifestyle from 5yrs prior…
We owe so much to the HIV/AIDS community for fighting the hard fight against a system hell bent on sidelining people who are suffering & dying from curable diseases. Solidarity to all those who continue the fight to find a cure & to so many who have died in its wake
#WorldAIDSDay
What other study or project on chronic illness or Long Covid has this kind of immediate results? We need to ramp up funding & attention to
@remissionbiome
for Long Covid - it’s within reason that a cure could come from a source in the gut.
@mrigankshail
@WHO
@mvankerkhove
Long Covid again goes unaddressed by
@WHO
when discussing concerns or variants & alerting the public. This is unacceptable- if you think mortality rates are the biggest concern for variants w/out including long Covid rates you’re actively lying to the public
My God
@JoeBiden
@CDCDirector
“Estimates suggest between 4% & 25% of kids who get COVID develop long COVID” this crippling illness is like being tortured & poisoned. Do you have any idea the harm your lack of action on Long Covid is doing?
Got news a family member is hit w/ Type 2 Diabetes, Dr. indicating they developed nerve damage associated w/ the Vagus Nerve from a COVID infection this winter. 4yrs of “so-called” immunty did zero to stop this. Long Covid Tests Now! Tell congress to act