Aileen
            
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              Associate Prof, sociologist, ethnographer, interested in Long Covid, multiple long term conditions, health inequalities and patient safety. All views my own.
              
              Aberdeen, Scotland
            
            
              
              Joined June 2014
            
            
           Here’s a great opportunity to study for a PhD with @DDbaldie and myself. 
          
            
            rgu.ac.uk
              The project is to undertake an evaluation of the impact of care assurance processes used by nurse leaders to continuously improve quality of nursing care.
            
                
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             Funded PhD studentships are available at RGU, candidates can have their own idea or explore the 100 project ideas. Please get in touch if you want to know more or to apply…  https://t.co/VABFfAZxi7 
          
          
                
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             Four Years in, What Are the Research Priorities for Long COVID? A Research Priority‐Setting Partnership Between People With Lived Experience, Carers, Clinicians and Researchers - new paper in Health Expectations journal #longcovid
          
          
            
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              Introduction Long COVID is a life-limiting condition that affects 65 million people worldwide. It devastates lives with uncertain illness trajectories, and yet, there are many research uncertaintie...
            
                
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             Just having this discussion with others who say they don’t remember the first 6/12 of COVID. Workforce are sitting on a raft of unprocessed grief and trauma. First move should be to ensure basic needs are met but we haven’t even got that far. 
           I occasionally think that I managed to come through the pandemic relatively psychologically unscathed, and then I try watching something like this and realise that actually all I’ve done is repress a whole lot of horror, that I will likely need to address at some point. 
          
                
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             This week in key Covid publications: —Young, healthy individuals with mild cases had objective cognitive deficits at 1-year that they did not perceive —Older, hospitalized adults with severe Covid had an equivalent of 20 years of decline in cognitive performance at 1-year 
          
                
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             A research proposal is your project's blueprint. But it's more than just simple paperwork. Your research proposal is more than a formality. It sets the stage, aligns your ideas, and gets you moving with confidence. 
          
                
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             New #research Long COVID: a clinical update @trishgreenhalgh et al #LongCovid #LongCovidKids
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             We are excited to have supported this new study via our #LongCovid Research Consortium.  The project team are our incredible @CUBoulderBN colleagues at the University of Colorado Boulder:  https://t.co/KqpAQkAbAa 
          
          
                
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             2/ The findings suggest that multiple infectious “hits” (#viral and #bacterial) may amplify long-term neuroinflammatory or neuroimmune symptoms in patients with #LongCovid. 
          
                
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             Three years after your initial covid infection, there were still *new* symptoms starting, mostly neurological or GI related. 'That mini stroke that you are having now could be related to that covid infection you had three years ago.' TY @zalaly
          
          
                
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             Delighted to have been awarded funding to further establish the Scottish Preconception Health Research Network. Looking forward to getting started and working with some wonderful researchers to drive forward preconception health research in Scotland 
           🎉 We are thrilled to announce our latest research awardees! 🎉 Their pioneering work will drive advancements in knowledge, tackle global challenges, and make significant contributions to Scottish society and beyond. Congratulations! 👏🙌 ✨  https://t.co/tkBY0wIroo 
            
            
                
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             We're into a sixth stage of the covid pandemic in England. It has some implications. Let me run through how we got here: 
          
                
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             At Westminster Health Forum Prof. Paul Elliott @ReactStudy: 🔵risk of symptom persistence greater with wild type virus 🔵10% in REACT-LC data had long term symptoms (12 wks), 2/3 lasted 1yr+ 🔵those recovered from #LongCovid have worse health than those without LC @wfpevents
          
          
                
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             Well done Shivali! 👏 
           👏Congrats! Shivali Lakhani-PhD student @RGUPALS won a £10,000 Health Education Foundation grant to support her studies. Shivali is doing a PhD “Tool kit for healthy pregnancy “ whilst working full time as a pharmacist. @ProfScottC  & Dr Aileen Grant are on her supervisory team 
            
                
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             COVID’S EFFECT ON THE IMMUNE SYSTEM 🔥 This is an excellent series of graphics from @YaleSPH explaining what we do (and don’t) know about Covid’s effect on the immune system. Much of this is informed by the work of Dr. Akiko Iwasaki (@VirusesImmunity). 🧵 H/t @fitterhappierAJ
          
          
                
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             Looks like Yale school of public health has finally started to say what I have been repeatedly saying since 2020 1) covid creates longlasting autoimmunity by harming t regs 2) harms adaptive immunity 3) causes immune dysregulation 4) persists etc 
           There is no collective immunity by infection. Each infection is a net negative and a poison pill It resets the tally of immunity by contributing to evolution and immune harm and escape. The proponents and validators of its pursuit have plagued us  https://t.co/DwP4CCb4Ia 
            
            
                
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             Cabinet Office question from @elliereeves on no. people in UK currently out of work due to #LongCovid. Answer given 🔴Most recent estimate July ‘22 - 375,000 🔴Nov 23 - Jan 24 - 2.7m not working/seeking work due to long-term sickness/disability. Can’t say how many due to LC 
          
                
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