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Visiting Research Fellow, Oxford University. Studying Long Covid. Ambassador for charity @long_covid "Anti-Recovery Activist" Phil Parker May 2024 BBC piece:

https://t.co/C9XT41hJOX
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I spoke to @BBCSport recently about my experience with Long Covid. I feel very grateful to be able to tell my story - so many people are suffering without a voice or the support they need. Progress is happening but *so* much more needs to be done. #LongCovid
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@oonagh_cousins was left wondering what might have been after being forced to prematurely end her rowing career. She spoke to @BBCSport about her story 💬 ⤵️ #BBCRowing
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1/ Having long Covid made me so aware of the expectations we have of what a "good ill person" looks like. I consistently felt pressure to be falsely positive about my illness in order to make people around me feel less awkward.
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Massive thanks to @rachelschraer and @Paul_Grant1 for this, and to everyone who contributed. Very grateful for the care that was taken and to be given the space to properly explain my point of view. Think I should add 'anti-recovery activist' to my bio?!
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Long Covid course is ‘exploiting people’, says ex-GB rower

Ex-Team GB's Oonagh Cousins says a treatment she underwent "blamed" participants for being ill.

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1/ Thank you very much @bbc5live for talking about Long Covid and inviting me on to share my experience. (I did say many people don't recover even with rest, but didn't make the clip)
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Feel so fortunate to have spoken at #UniteToFight2024 earlier today. I had a fair amount of get off my chest about GET/CBT! Thank you very much to everyone who listened and the Unite to Fight team who have done an incredible job pulling this event together.
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This!! One of the reasons I am grateful I was a professional athlete when I got LC is that I knew to stop training at signs of illness. When I heard about GET I was horrified - it flies in the face of basic principles of health and recovery
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Exercise isn't good for sick people, regardless of the illness. It isn't good for colds, flu, or any other type of infection. The only reason physicians recommend exercise for ME/CFS (or long covid) is that they don't believe it is an ongoing physical illness.
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My presentation for #UniteToFight2024 has changed: as well as participatory research methods, I have added a section about rest and how the GET/CBT paradigm is both useless and extremely harmful. Really looking forward to speaking - the conference is this Wed/Thurs.
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1/ I recently started work at Oxford University, on a Long Covid research project as a patient representative from @long_covid . It's a fantastic project, that is being run according to the 'participatory research' method - where patients are engaged as equal partners.
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@GeorgeMonbiot "ME is the Greatest Medical Scandal of 21st century" Who is going to cover it? @jonstewart @iamjohnoliver @TheDailyShow @LastWeekTonight #JohnVsJonVsME #GreatestMEdicalScandal
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"We psychologise illnesses we don't understand. We project this ignorance onto patients. This must stop." @zalaly 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️
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As Physician and Scientist Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly told me tonight, we must initiate the conversation to solve the problem of long covid despite pandemic fatigue.  I’m going to stay on this as long as it takes until we get answers.
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🤣🙌🏼 @ellanbarnard
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Wow.. being aware of Long Covid and seeing it get so little of the attention it deserves can be a disorientating experience. Seeing a government minister lay it out in plain terms is very refreshing.
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German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach provides a crucial update on the ongoing Long COVID situation, as Germany faces a new wave amidst the holiday season. (with English subtitles)
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"Looking after the lives of the nation is the basic responsibility of our leaders and he [Boris Johnson] consistently put his ego and self interest ahead of that." Felt v good to say that on TV.
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Hey long Covid twitter (/anyone else!) I would really like to understand more about how the chronic effects of viruses have historically been ignored. If anyone has any reading recommendations could you possibly drop them below please? Many thanks!
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@WoollerEmma This is one of my favourite parts of this whole thing. I spoke about mental health in the original article that led them to contact me and they mentioned that in their initial emails. I think they thought I was an easy target.
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@RobertHMcMullen @TheNewsQuiz Hi @TheSimonEvans Can I invite you to complete a day of Olympic rowing training? Meet at the club at 6am with 40k of rowing and a heavy weights session. This was my everyday before I got Long Covid. Let me know if I am the type of person who gets this illness.
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3/ I just needed to pragmatically explain the affects of the illness and that I was no longer living life as healthy Oonagh, in order to manage expectations of me - but a lot of people were uncomfortable with the conversation.
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2/ Combine that with the fact that most people have no idea how severe long Covid can be / how long term it is and a lot of people had no idea how different my life looked and that I had no idea when normality might return. I didn't want/need sympathy.
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Covid is in all of these countries, but it is only in the UK that the share of working age people out of employment has risen post pandemic. I would predict that LC is contributing to this UK trend but these graphs would suggest there are also other factors at play.
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Really honoured to participate in this patient led conference and so looking forward to sharing the benefits of participatory research. Thank you @U2Fight_World for all the work organising this event.
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New speaker announcement 📢 In March 2020, Oonagh Cousins ( @oonagh_cousins ) was preselected for the Olympics as part of the GB rowing team. #LongCOVID forced an early retirement from professional sport and now she is completing a Social Sciences Fellowship at Oxford University,
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I am receiving lots of supportive messages in response to the interviews - thank you, really appreciate it. I just also want to shout out the many other volunteers who have done an immense amount of work around the campaign and the inquiry, which is often a bit more invisible.
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1/ My friend @EllaBarnard has tonsillitis. She went to the doctors and received more care and understanding than she has in her entire 5 year experience of post-viral illnesses (glandular fever and then long Covid).
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2/ This may be optimistic, but l felt like Long Covid was a bit more on the map than it has been. For the full interview, I start at around 2:11 into the program:
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3/ It's PPI in its fullest and most beneficial form. Our project's website launched today - and I have written a blog about the benefits of participatory research. Click the link to read.
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Visualising Long Covid
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2/ I've only been there for 3 months but I am so inspired by the way @BethJGreenhough and Maaret Jokela-Pansini work. The participatory method should hopefully mean more representative research output, but it goes beyond that - it also empowers patients to drive positive change
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@cfs_research If they genuinely cared about helping people they would engage with the feedback that this program has caused an immense amount of harm. Instead they accuse people of not wanting to get better - another very harmful thing to say to patients.
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@RorPreston @AlanCarson15 @RobWust This is wild to me that I have to say this, but comparing DOMS to PEM is like comparing apples to oranges. Completely different bodily sensations.
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1/ Recruiting for research! As part of my PPI work with the University of Oxford, I am looking for female participants to be involved in a bodymapping workshop. It's a social science project studying women's experiences of Long Covid.
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@cfs_research I am not attacking their character - I'm attacking their business model of using me, who they thought may be vulnerable to this level of gaslighting, to reach other patients - and to continue to do harm. They gave it to me for free: this was a marketing strategy, nothing else.
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Brilliant documentary on the ME scandal. "The history of ME remains one of the worst examples of unacknowledged institutional abuse in modern times.” Valerie Eliot Smith 2019
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I wish everybody covering or working on #ME #LongCovid #IACC watched 'The Tangled Story of #MECFS ' (2021) by @DialoguesMECFS . It's a great introduction with a wide range of featurable clips on #GreatestMEdicalScandal . Here are some moments/examples (1/x):
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A really moving lecture, thank you @zalaly "we need to overturn the ahistoric belief that viruses just cause an acute disease, they cause chronic disease" It was very striking how researching LC provides opportunities for so much positive change in our understanding of health
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"Either you will encounter another pandemic or your kids will. We have paid the price for this horror show, let's learn from it to help us navigate the stormy waters of the next pandemic. Not learning from this pandemic will be a historic mistake" @zalaly
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Had the privilege of watching ITV's drama #breathtaking this evening. They have done a magnificent job, it is absolutely devastating. Really hope it leads to a much better national conversation about what frontline workers have been through.
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❤️ Reps. from our charity ( @JoD66 & @oonagh_cousins ) at the UK premier of @doctor_oxford ’s BREATHTAKING, that depicts the experiences of those on the NHS frontline early in the #Covid pandemic - bumping into the fantastic @trishgreenhalgh & fabulous @carolvorders ! #LongCovid
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@RobertHMcMullen @TheNewsQuiz My point is not that athletes are special, but just that they don't face this ridiculous prejudice that people who get long Covid are lazy
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Amazing patient advocacy work!!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
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Great idea and smart campaigning! 👏🏼 Information below how to get involved.
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Beautiful people, we want to close out this #MEAwarenessMonth with something fun & lighthearted that will both help highlight the #GreatestMEdicalScandal and allow you all to show off your humor, wit, and creativity. 🧵 #ME #MECFS #LongCovid #ExposeMENow #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis
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Long Covid Support has just launched a Research Involvement Consultancy to offer quality PPI to researchers. More information below.
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📣 Are you conducting/planning research in to #LongCovid ? 🌟Book a slot with our newly launched Research Involvement Consultancy!🌟 Ensure your study is relevant, robust and keeps the patient voice at the centre. More info.: #PatientInvolvement
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3/Don't get me wrong, tonsillitis is not fun. But the gulf between the care that Ella has received for a week long illness that basically just gave her a sore throat Vs for illnesses that have been a 5 year wrecking ball for nearly every facet of her life, is hard to grapple with
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1. "Science is not the objective, neutral force it is often misconstrued as... Societal dismissal leads to scientific neglect, and a lack of research becomes fodder for further skepticism"
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Opinion | Reporting on Long Covid Taught Me to Be a Better Journalist

Covering long Covid solidified my view that science is not the objective, neutral force that it is often said to be.

www.nytimes.com
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5/ All would have reduced how sick she has been by a really significant degree. It is mind blowing to me that the medical system does not acknowledge how serious post viral illnesses can be or give the advice that could reduce these illnesses having such a devastating effect.
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2/It isn't breaking news that post-viral conditions are dismissed by doctors but there are some moments which throw in my face the simple changes that could make an unfathomable amount of difference.
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4/I recognise there are limits to what doctors can do with limited research or treatments but 1. Recognising how sick Ella was 2. Advising her on the importance of rest 3. Providing her with support to take time off work
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Huge shout out to all the Long Covid Groups for the immense amount of work that has gone into the last two days of campaigning at the Inquiry. @LongCovidKids @long_covid @LongCovidSOS @LongCOVIDPhysio
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Thank you @apresj20 and @Decathlon for hosting this event and inviting me to part of it. It is great to see a company holding events like this! Depending on your French, this is a really informative video on #longcovid too
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🎥 Découvrez la 3ème vidéo avec @oonagh_cousins : ex-sportive de haut-niveau 🇬🇧 (aviron), #CovidLong & ambassadrice de @long_covid 💻"Gérer ma maladie m'a demandé de réorganiser la totalité de ma vie." ➡️ #MissionHandicapDecathlon #ApresJ20
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@RFH1955 Don't mind at all! It wasn't on purpose but that's certainly how I feel. It's a horrifying situation. We should not need former athletes to highlight that sick people are not lazy/deconditioned.
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@JoD66 @RogersNat70 @nikkiS_MCSFS @SammieFMc @ClaireHastie1 @DaviesLunt @selkieO @DrMark_Faghy @merelpianist - an amazing and extremely hard-working bunch of people.
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Great piece on the need for a better definition of LC: "The failure to develop a consensus on a LC case definition has and continues to create problems. Just like a house of cards, if the scientific foundation is shaky, all the layers constructed above are vulnerable to collapse"
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My latest opinion piece just published: (March 28, 2024). Leonard A. Jason. Undark. Failure to Define Long Covid Will Impede Research Progress
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Very much looking forward to this! It will likely have more of a rowing/exercise angle than some of the other interviews I have done, if that is of interest
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Delighted to welcome GBR oarswoman @oonagh_cousins to Crossy's Corner this Thursday 31st August at 4pm BST. Oonagh was provisionally selected for the Olympic team when she got #LongCovid and her life changed - essential listening 4 anyone who has suffered, or friends and family
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Thank you for the discussion sparked by my last tweet! I can't respond to every reply, but my main thought is: the fact we are having this conversation at all is a scandal. Total failure of govts that the ongoing impact of the pandemic is so poorly measured.
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🥁 🥁 🥁It’s time! Which Jo(h)n will you bet on to cover the #GreatestMEdicalScandal ? Cast your vote now! #JohnVsJonVsME Will it be @iamjohnoliver or @jonstewart ? Add your favorite memes to QTs & Comments highlighting your vote! More info below! ⬇️ meme by @emilyesfraser
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Sign up here:
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UniteToFight2024 – Long Covid and ME/CFS conference
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Endless respect for my friend and teammate Caragh McMurtry. She makes speaking out look easy, but she's fought her way through hell, and is now doing fantastic work to stop it from happening to others.
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Caragh McMurtry: Great Britain rower's neurodivergent journey

Caragh McMurtry spent five years taking debilitating medication for a condition she didn't have. Now, the former Great Britain rower is fighting to ensure no-one has to suffer in the same way.

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@sunsopeningband @WhooshMTB @BBCRadio4 @JamesTGallagher Agreed the obsession with including exercise in the narrative is infuriating. I've done both and it's offensive to compare the two. Training for the Olympics doesn't take away fundamental human needs. Someone else notified me about this I am trying to get in touch with them.
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Brilliant 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 good for patients and good for research. Thank you Ezra!!!
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I have news! I’m excited to announce @lcstudiesdotnet , a new website to help people with Long Covid find research studies and clinical trials. I don’t want to bury the lede: check it out at
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@TayKayPhillips @ChrissySh @mariancw @charleswmwilson @MPasset @MayaTribbitt @johnathanappel @neelamreports @csmcdaniel
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ALT TEXT: A meme which shows a man getting progressively more excited in response to three different lines of text: 1. 'Jon Stewart covering the Greatest MEdical Scandal' 2. John Oliver covering the Greatest MEdical Scandal. 3. JO(H)N X2 covering the Greatest MEdical Scandal.
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@RorPreston @MEAssociation This is absolutely shocking
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Thank you @rachel_fairbank for writing about dysautonomia/POTS and including my story - really informative article.
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In my latest for @NatGeo , I wrote about the many nuances and contradictions surrounding the use of exercise as a treatment for postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, or POTS for short.
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@SammieFMc @LongCovidSOS @long_covid @LongCOVIDPhysio @DaviesLunt @selkieO @JoD66 @RogersNat70 @DrMark_Faghy I'm exhausted just looking at these🤣 but we sure made ourselves known! ❤️❤️
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@MatthewJDalby Yes agreed - not suggesting these graphs correlate with LC prevalence. More countering the idea that LC is the main/only factor driving the number of people out work in the UK, which I have seen on here.
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@AaronCa11 Honestly this. The word fatigue is so misleading and doing us such a disservice. So many other diseases make people 'tired' - but the tiredness is seen as a downstream issue, and so noone is suggesting exercise as a cure. Should be obvious it is the same situation in LC / ME
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@CaroleBruce17 @rachelschraer @Paul_Grant1 🙏🏼😂 Excellent idea!!
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3/ The workshop will be an opportunity to share your experience with other people going through similar things. It will also help us improve our understanding of what it is like to live with Long Covid.
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2/ We are holding the workshop in the afternoon of 12th February in person in Oxford. Participants will be reimbursed for the time.
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4/ Please DM me for more information. Thank you.
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Really enjoyed this!! Thank you @AliMilaniUK for spotlighting Long Covid. Catch up on the Fubar Radio website/app.
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🚨 Politics Uncensored is live at 5pm today! Joining me today: 🎤 British Youth Council’s @Zara_Mehr 🚣‍♀️ Former GB Rower and Long Covid campaigner @oonagh_cousins 🎙️ Comic @MattRichardson3 Listen live on @FubarRadio
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Looking forward to this! Join us on Friday for a chat about #longcovid 👇
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We are very lucky to have @LaRadarina Joining us. Rachel is a Singing For Health Practitioner. We are ecstatic to have @oonagh_cousins to talk about her Long Covid journey. Set a reminder for my upcoming Space!
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@AaronCa11 There are also lots of other reasons to invest in research beyond just an economic one that should matter 🫥
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@AnilvanderZee Thank you very much for listening, glad that came across!
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@TraceyABurgess @Naomi_D_Harvey @vijayiyer312 The advocacy from the LC community is a very powerful team effort!
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@AaronCa11 It would be good for us if LC was the cause, but it doesn't mean it's not still economically beneficial long term to invest in research. I think this highlights the confirmation bias that exists in the community, which could damage our credibility longterm if we aren't careful.
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@Gmwetz Lots of people involved, but thanks! Really hope it gets the message out.
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2/ Thank you @edyong209 for articulating the mountain Long Covid patients are having to climb in order to get support required. Really moving piece (again!)
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Brilliant news!
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Delighted to welcome @jessphillips MP as our newest Parliamentary Champion! 🎉 Jess's dedication to advocacy for women & equalities will be instrumental in creating positive change in legislation & amplifying the voices of those living with #MECFS #pwME #MyalgicE #Parliament
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@FrauXausNRW @TheMegascope @patientled @GrandeBettina @amymooney145 @HarryLeeming @EdoPlantinga @JoannekeVDNagel @Susan_Rae1 @DrAnnaNZ @ErinAPN1 @geschom @Molbaas @SabineHermisson @sayoni03 @precisionlifeAI @DrDenDunnen @KraterMartin @PutrinoLab Thank you so much for all your work, it was brilliant.
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Very interesting lecture on the history of pandemics. Puts Covid into context - I think this is really important for those who are advocating/campaigning in this space.
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Many thanks to Eva Ahren and @karolinskainst for inviting me to give the Hagstromer Lecture in Stockholm last November. It was a pleasure and honour to share the stage with David Morens. You can catch our respective contributions here:
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@TraceyABurgess @Naomi_D_Harvey @vijayiyer312 ❤️ it's utterly horrifying how much needless suffering there has been. I don't know if this is naively optimistic but I have a sense the needle might just be starting to shift, my fingers are crossed.
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@sunsopeningband @WhooshMTB @BBCRadio4 @JamesTGallagher I will say however: I can see it is hard to communicate this illness, and maybe there are some things in this comparison that can be helpful if well caveated.
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@JoD66 @long_covid @NikkiS_MCSFS Hear hear!
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@SammieFMc @LongCovidSOS @long_covid @LongCOVIDPhysio @DaviesLunt @selkieO @JoD66 @RogersNat70 @DrMark_Faghy Totally agree.
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@rachelschraer Ah I saw you on your last day! Congratulations on the new role 🎉🙌🏼
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@CounsellingSam @BBCSport 💛
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@TraceyABurgess @Naomi_D_Harvey @vijayiyer312 Exactly what Naomi said. Also compounded by the extreme desire to be healthy again which makes people very vulnerable to believing any information which tells them there's something they can do to recover, and neglecting any info that contradicts that.
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@Michaeltikus @sunsopeningband @LongCovidSOS @karenphysiocouk @LongCOVIDPhysio @PhysiosForME @long_covid @LongCovidKids @Know_HG We are in the process of trying to get the message out to sporting authorities. Haven't clarified exactly who that it is yet, just starting to figure that out. Another example of why it is so urgent to do this!
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@RorPreston @MEAssociation Agreed with all the above
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@long_covid @LongCovidKids @LongCovidSOS @LongCOVIDPhysio ❤️❤️ 🫂🙏🏼
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@JoD66 @SammieFMc @Know_HG @ClaireHastie1 @NikkiS_MCSFS @RogersNat70 @selkieO @DaviesLunt @HextRachel @ahillslegal @alitwy @VosperSioux @JCeoltaSmith @ScribblerPen @HelenMMGoss @merelpianist @Drjohouse @long_covid Such a great and inspiring evening! ❤️
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@Elise_Racine @long_covid Totally agree re patient knowledge! It's really cool to be working with researchers who recognise this and want to work with us.
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@HelenMMGoss @NHSGrampian @SammieFMc @CounsellingSam @PeteUK7 @long_covid @zalaly @rubyslippahs @Fionasstalker @_CatintheHat @ChrisCuomo @joaquinlife Right behind you here, awe inspiringly brave. Can't comprehend what you have been through, and to still push for change is truly something. Thank you.
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@CounsellingSam It will be on YouTube! Live streamed at 4pm on Thursday, but you should be able to watch the video anytime after that. This is the link to Martin's YouTube channel:
Crossy’s Corner

Martin Cross is running a series of talks with many interesting athletes, coaches and administrators.

www.youtube.com
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@merelpianist @LCKChoir2022 @KinderenLC @LongCovidNL @LongCovidKids @LongCovidSOS @LongCovidOrg @LongCOVIDPhysio @SammieFMc 🙏🏼❤️🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
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@ELHopkins @LaRadarina @CounsellingSam @helenessex2 @JoD66 Thanks so much for having me!
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@Gmwetz @ClausErnst @FrauXausNRW @TeamPostX @ungenesbar Incredible work! Thank you.
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@Michaeltikus @CiaraGlenville @Canal1point5 @StutlerMelissa @remissionbiome @theacidtesters Hey, I never did this test myself, but I have done lots of lactate testing to determine how hard a session is. It depends what session you're doing, but if it's steady state, it takes approx 10 mins to warm up so any time after that. 🧵
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@long_covid @CharityHourUK So happy to be here!
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@MarekSJF Thank you
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@Gmwetz Thank you so much for having me and all your work organising the event! Really looking forward to it.
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Very interesting read ⬇️
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I thought I'd repost this piece from last spring on paradigm shift in ME/CFS, Long Covid and post-acute infectionsyndromes:
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@RobinGorna Thank you so much!
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@misslice This makes me quite emotional! It means a huge amount that it resonated with you, and thank you very much for sharing it with your doctor. There will be recordings put up on youtube later (not sure when!)
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