A tumultuous 24-ish hours since our preprint was released yesterday. I mentioned that this was a fraught issue and I genuinely do understand that people have mixed feelings about the work. I wanted to take some time to respond to some of the concerns and comments that have 1/ - ThreadSky

putrinolab.bsky.social • 122 days ago

A tumultuous 24-ish hours since our preprint was released yesterday. I mentioned that this was a fraught issue and I genuinely do understand that people have mixed feelings about the work. I wanted to take some time to respond to some of the concerns and comments that have 1/

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dogtorapproximate.bsky.social•122 days ago

I'm really sorry - I find the writing dense ( brain fog ) - I was wondering what the differing features are in long covid fro other post virals / ME

tatianatrifan.bsky.social•110 days ago

Sadly, there are so many people spreading disinformation about this study.
There is this doctor, Dan Wilson, that also spreads LC minimising and complete disinformation about your work and what you stand for. All comfortably on YouTube.
This is someone quoting him:
https://youtu.be/xsg3diQdI98?si=osWbxQF2cpG0B8c8

tatianatrifan.bsky.social•110 days ago

This is what people take from Wilson's videos:
"He mentions that one of the authors, David Putrino, has been on social media pushing supplements to “protect” anti-vaxxers from people who are “shedding” the vaccine in their presence, which is obviously all bullshit."
https://www.patreon.com/posts/123340746

putrinolab.bsky.social•122 days ago

arisen. First, and most importantly: #LongCOVID (LC) and post-vaccine syndrome (PVS) both exist. Anyone claiming that all LC or even *most* LC is actually PVS is unserious and is making up nonsense that is not supported by the consensus science. I cannot stress this strongly 2/

wat3rm370n.bsky.social•119 days ago

Maybe stop collaborating with people with strong connections to people who definitely push such narratives. Just a thought.

carlarus.bsky.social•121 days ago

You are right!

putrinolab.bsky.social•122 days ago

enough. While we're talking about Long COVID and its clear distinction from PVS, I'd like to remind people that my team was talking about persistent effects of acute COVID in April and May of 2020. By November of 2020, we pre-printed our first LC paper:

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.04.20226126v1.full.pdf

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putrinolab.bsky.social•122 days ago

Of note, at the time - we couldn't get it published! We were told by the academic community that the science was weak, and quote from one reviewer: "all you have is the patient's word that they have Long COVID and they're probably just anxious or depressed". Fast forward a few
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putrinolab.bsky.social•122 days ago

years and in collaboration with @VirusesImmunity and her incredible team we published our paper where we showed that we could identify people from healthy controls using blood biomarkers alone. Pre-printed in '22, and published in late '23:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06651-y

EVERY SINGLE
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stelek.bsky.social•122 days ago

Fascinating paper. I'm sure we all know the real reasons your paper wasn't published. Maybe next time, include an oil ad or a tobacco ad in it, right at the top. It'll sail right on through. Oooh or say sugar and being obese is good for you! ;)

oevie.bsky.social•121 days ago

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putrinolab.bsky.social•122 days ago

Long COVID participant in this study got sick BEFORE vaccines were available. So the argument that these physiological changes were triggered by the vaccine, as many asserted, is an unserious one. Please can we all stay focused on the problem: people are sick, people are 6/

putrinolab.bsky.social•122 days ago

hurting and they need good science to guide pathobiological understanding and interventional strategies. The sick folks that we serve do not need our science to be hijacked to support extreme positions and dangerous agendas. After vaccines started to be distributed to the 7/

cdoherty13.bsky.social•120 days ago

As a person living with LC - thank-you. Thank-you for doing the research. Thank-you for listening to sufferers. Thank-you for your commitment to the science.

fakedoctorrealdata.bsky.social•118 days ago

In Germany PVS has a direct link to the Antivaxxer movement / "alternative" medicine and misinformation on social media. I have researched lots of cases that are mostly #PostVacFake https://bsky.app/profile/fakedoctorrealdata.bsky.social/post/3kdbl4o7lyk22

kateviolette.com•118 days ago

Thank you for being brave and humble enough to follow the science wherever it leads, David. 💪 Thanks to you and your whole hard-working team and collaborators.

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