"Five years on from March 2020, millions of people still face debilitating symptoms, with huge repercussions on public health and productivity. But politicians are starting to pretend the pandemic never happened."
#Covid
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/mar/02/were-losing-decades-of-our-life-to-this-illness-long-covid-patients-on-the-fear-of-being-forgotten
#Covid
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/mar/02/were-losing-decades-of-our-life-to-this-illness-long-covid-patients-on-the-fear-of-being-forgotten
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it isn't just politicians who are pretending it didn't happen
almost everyone I know , mostly moderate liberals, is "over covid"
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The related - and with much overlapping mechanisms, according to comparative studies - immune damaging disease #mecfs sees a life expectancy reduction of ca 15 years.
Like mecfs, long covid is chiefly lacking medical research funding....
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5218818/
Even better would be to have focused funding for mecfs / long covid research...
I'm a bit tired and should eat after a long day, but the head of the MECFS clinic at the Berlin Charité clinic, @scheibenbogen.bsky.social has both written in the media, and written research papers on the topic of lacking research funding and potential applicability of existing treatments.
(google translated screenshot )
https://bsky.app/profile/scheibenbogen.bsky.social/post/3lf3sfhlprk2z
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/371597806_Fighting_Post-COVID_and_MECFS_-_development_of_curative_therapies
In reality ofc, COVID waves have continued - there was quite a large wave in mid-2024.
Reinfection is even mentioned as a risk for those already with LC, but not an ongoing risk?