Why do people deny or downplay Long Covid and refuse protection? The Extended Parallel Process Model (EPPM), widely used in health psychology, gives some answers. As a social psychologist, let me explain how our minds shape these reactions. 🧵 (1/16)

Together, these findings show that Long COVID doesn’t just damage muscles - it disrupts the small sensory and autonomic fibers that connect nerves, vessels, and immunity. A pattern strikingly similar to HIV neuropathy, only accelerated - unfolding over weeks instead of years.

Dr. Morgane Bomsel is studying SARS-CoV-2 persistence in Long Covid patients’ platelets and megakaryocytes. Thus far, their early data shows that spike protein and viral RNA “can be found in at least 2/3 of the Long Covid patients’ [megakaryocytes]… this research suggests MKs

Microneurography Reveals Unmyelinated Small Nerve Fiber Dysfunction in Long COVID 🔥This interesting small UK study analysed 36 long COVID patients using microneurography, revealing significant C nociceptor abnormalities, including spontaneous activity and sensitization,

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🖤#RIP Pascal Mertens🖤 Die Covid Impfung hat aus dem ehemals sportlichen jungen Mann einen #PostVac Pflegefall gemacht, jetzt ist der 37 jährige tot...🥀 In Gedanken bei seinen Hinterbliebenen💔 https://t.co/lBJCVwqH8o

I will never feel love again

I saw a psychiatrist today following recommandations by "doctors" ignoring everything about covid thus psychiatrize it. The psychiatrist:"after infection i had cognitive issues and still have it, im convinced it is a bioenginered virus, what you have isnt psychological"

When i die, i want it to be known that long covid killed me, not a heart attack, stroke or cardiac arrest. Before Covid I was a healthy 24 year old. Now I'm 27, multi organ damage and bedbound. Every day, I get weaker and nobody can help me or cares enough #LongCOVID

‘Have you considered that it’s burnout?’ An observational study of 2K people found that 83% of LongCOVID patients experienced stigma and 82% psychologization, correlating to a loss of trust in medicine and negative outcomes. People with PVS experienced 90% and 87% respectively.

🧵Une étude de Barcelone vient de révéler un phénomène inédit : les muscles sains exposés au sang de patients #CovidLong ou #EM perdent rapidement leur force et subissent un effondrement mitochondrial avec le temps. https://t.co/m5af5lM9on

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Nous avons besoin d'une centaine de volontaires pour mener une action RADICALE sur le modèle d'Act UP qui dans les années 80 eurent par ce biais gain de cause. Si vous êtes intéressés, contactez moi, nous sommes déjà près de 20

ORGANISATION D'UNE ACTION RADICALE Aux Français(es) atteints de #covidlong : nous n'aurons jamais gain de cause tant les pouvoirs publics ont BESOIN d'entretenir le déni. Nous devons leur tordre le bras. Le covid long tue, allez vous attendre votre mort servilement ?!

Important paper by the European Academy of Neurology. "Healthcare systems should be aware of, and be prepared for a potential increase in the incidence of neurodegenerative diseases in the upcoming years." What has been the state of surveillance and awareness so far? #NeuroCovid

A neuroimaging study of 44 #LongCOVID patients (15 bedridden) and 14 controls found significant volume loss and impaired white matter integrity in brainstem and cerebellar regions in LongCOVID patients, particularly the superior and middle cerebellar peduncles near the 4th

The lives and words of people with Long Covid are being erased.

Paris researchers studied golden hamsters and found that SARS-CoV-2 can persist in the brainstem for 80 days, triggering gene changes linked to neurodegeneration and causing depression-like behavior, memory loss, and anxiety-like symptoms. https://t.co/wF2YulVkTy

In reality, this disease is a death sentence. Wouldn’t matter if I lived another 30 years. It’s just surviving for the sake of surviving. There is no happy ending. Never has been. Never will be. Just gotta ask yourself how long are you willing to suffer

#LongCOVID patients with cognitive dysfunction underwent FDG PET scans and EEG tests which showed reduced brain metabolism and slowed electrical activity, especially in frontal regions linked to focus and memory. These findings help explain the neurological basis of "brain fog"