I have been practicing as a dr for nearly 3 decades. I have never seen so many young adults with autoimmune diseases diagnosed left right centre and on strong medications.
I have never seen so many new heart conditions.
People perpetually falling sick.
It is the Covid.
Was in a bit of a shock. Asked my patient to mask. He asked me why I’m still insisting this as aren’t we over all this now? I said no. He told me his parent in ICU. Masks not required. Nobody masks. In ICU.
What hope do I have to continue to reinforce this as I’m just a GP!
I’m a GP. I am dealing with Covid aftermath. I have fit and picture perfect healthy 20+ year olds with LDL>3. They are prematurely clogging their arteries after Covid infections. We are not equipped to deal with all this. Who wants to start statins this young? STOP COVID SPREAD!!
I think TB may rescue us all. Why? Latent TB getting reactivated. Most are maskless. Needs N95. Active TB spreads, AIRBORNE of course. 4-6months treatment. People can still get TB despite being vaccinated. This will spread thick and fast. Unless sleeping beauty PH wakes up.
Patient A, 20+ yrs old. Mental health problems. Feeling extremely tired. Usual GP bloods normal. Had Covid 3 times- so I sent her for extensive bloods. Low complement, low NK cells. Long Covid. Would have been dismissed by many GPs who are not aware of Covid impact.
If I go in to hospital and am covid free. Then had a procedure and caught Covid-19.
Do you think I can sue the hospital for giving me Covid-19? Especially when I explicitly state how I intend to keep myself Covid safe when in hospital?
I am a GP. GPs do not have sick leave or even annual leave. No super either!
So I take precautions to minimise me from catching anything.
I see sick patients. Even those with Covid. I know Covid is bad news. So I have masked since 2020 because I know Covid is airborne.
For those who had Covid, consider getting lipid profile and basic bloods done. Just saw a young patient with heart attack. Fit and well previously. Had Covid infections x2. No family history. This is not normal. Covid attacks blood vessels. Wear a mask! You deserve clean air.
Reality check.
My elderly cancer patient has covid for the first time. Likely caught covid in hospital as staff need to tend to her PICC line and all unmasked and in extremely close proximity.
My other patient who is waiting for lung transplant caught covid too.
Patient had Covid 4 times. No family history of bowel disease. Patient has inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Responding to treatment. Specialist don’t understand why he has IBD. Some specialists haven’t joined the dots.
IT IS BECAUSE OF COVID.
If you don’t get covid, you won’t get long covid.
Also you can’t spread covid if you don’t have Covid. Don’t perpetuate the pandemic.
Wear a mask. Breathe clean air. More are becoming immunocompromised. Look at USA and UK.
There is no cure for Covid and long COVID.
What a bad tweet this is. Of the “adverse effects”- I have none. Not even pressure sore. And I wear n95 everyday now, even at home as my husband won’t mask at work. I am
a novid. I’m a dr. I see covid patients. I have never caught COVID. I use fit tested masks. It works!!!
This was a review done in Australia on N95 respirators vs surgical masks to protect healthcare workers. Basically no extra benefits in preventing infections found, but there were more adverse events with respirators
3 patients told me they caught Covid from the hospital. They have been Novids until then. So our hospital is a source of Covid infection. How is this ok? This is NOT ok. This should never happen. Such a disgrace.
We are entering year 5 of living with COVID.
How has it been?
See how many have died for Covid to rip through. Causing so much chaos.
Is your health not important? Covid maims. Long Covid is getting more common and there’s no treatment!
Wear a mask. Breathe clean air.
Rheumatologist told my patient he has seen a big uptick in newly diagnosed autoimmune disorders.
I wonder why. Mysterious illness. Yet people are not masking because they don’t realise Covid is airborne. 4 years in….
@AlboMP
@Mark_Butler_MP
you are creating a huge mayhem and the Medicare you know will crumble like the NHS. I would like to see how you are going to provide decent medical care to people.
You let Covid rip through but block people from getting boosters and paxlovid.
Disgrace!
@broadwaybabyto
I’m sorry. It shouldn’t be like this. Why was she even wearing it if she can’t even be bothered to wear it correctly. What a horrible person. A nurse. Who don’t seem to care about people’s health and wellbeing. Covid is not one virus anyone should want to have.
Young patient in 20s. Covid infection 4 times. New autoimmune disease- unwell and had multiple hospital admissions. Specialist labelled this as mysterious disease. Now has pericarditis. Again, mysterious disease.
It is not mysterious. It is because of repeated Covid infections.
Reality is whoever spread covid to my patients and if they die, would have caused their death.
That is the plain truth. And do you think we can’t do anything? WRONG. You haven’t followed science because there’s lots of things we can do- mask and breathe clean air.
You’re maiming and killing health care workers to in the process. I hope your AI drs are ready to work.
You’re not educating the drs and you have killed public health.
When are you going to wake up and do the right thing? Look at USA- 1 in 4 with long covid.
Fool.
Oh and Covid is not only waking up latent TB. It is waking up EBV, zoster…I have young patients with shingles. You know what would have put a stop to all this? If only public health did their job properly and not be influenced by politicians.
Both caught it for the first time. 1st patient masked at all times. 2nd patient doesn’t go out much.
Very likely they will be stats for excess death.
Since when are we ok to kill people? If one does not mitigate by wearing a mask, one is a covid spreader.
Covid, is not your friend. There is NO BENEFIT in catching Covid. All harm. And there’s no such thing as herd immunity regarding Covid. The virus is getting stronger and smarter. We are in the 4th year, soon 5th year. Wake up. Wear mask. Breathe clean air. Get booster 💉
Humans are fascinating. The freedom not to mask is so important that humans accept that they will just get sick repeatedly, some maimed and some will die.
So easy to stop this merry-go-round of COVID infections. Just wear a mask.
I hate masking but I will do the right thing.
Oh and why is TB making a come back? Say thanks to Covid. People getting repeated Covid infections. Affects immune system. See
#Leonardi_Effect
@fitterhappierAJ
That’s why I wear an N95 everywhere now. I am responsible for my own well-being.
@EnemyInAState
Covid. It is due to Covid. I have seen it in my patients. The kids had 3 lots of antibiotics and it was only staph aureus. Super hard to eradicate. Never seen it in my career. These patients had Covid once. So it is going to be bad with recurrent ones. Very sad.
Boy do I feel like I’m a leper, asking people around to be considerate to me for masking. I’m only doing the right thing. Not spreading airborne human immunodeficiency virus. I’m a doctor. I understand science. There is no benefit in catching Covid-19. NONE.
With COVID-19 cases increasing in the community, some people, including people at higher risk of severe illness, may choose to wear a mask to protect themselves, such as when in indoor settings or on public transport. Be kind and considerate of someone’s choice to wear a mask.
Covid is not over. It is very alive and giving us new waves upon waves.
Please. Wear a mask. Better, wear a respirator. Breathe clean air.
There’s no turning back once the virus enters your body and starts hiding and replicate when it wants to.
Stay safe.
@1goodtern
@drstip
This is so common. I have a colleague- saw me in my respirator and eye PPE, she went to her bag and took her eye PPE and wore it. With no mask on. Then when she saw patients, added a surgical mask. Can’t make any sense.
I have worked through bad flu seasons where we even created a “pandemic ready for flu season guide” and swine flu.
I have never ever seen patients who repeatedly get infections and who are really sick. Reduced exercise tolerance. Not their usual self for months on end.
92 year old patient. Had Covid once. Multiple health issues. Gave her paxlovid then. Her friend visited yesterday. That friend just came back from interstate. Spent whole day with my patient. Rang my patient today to say she is Covid positive.
Don’t catch Covid. No benefit whatsoever. Acute phase may be mild but for some can be severe. The chronic phase will get you. It is not flu or cold. Repeated Covid infections are bad news. Please wear a mask. Covid is airborne. Breathe clean air and get 💉booster.
I am brave enough to wear a mask and stand out like a sore thumb and maintain my novid status.
Not stupid enough to condemn my health to get chronic health issues, frequent hospitals, take medications, lose income and livelihood. I’m going to keep brain intact.
This is just tip of the iceberg. I’m aware of the health problems post Covid. Think of those who haven’t been screened by their GPs. Or those unaware. Yet the govts are all doing NOTHING but aiding the spread of this catastrophe.
I just want you to protect yourself and your loved ones. The governments of the world are NOT doing what they need to do. I’m
seeing all these devastating outcomes, along with other clinicians who are seeing these sick patients too.
@1goodtern
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽. As a dr, you’ve written an excellent summary. I totally agree with you. Thank God I’m in your group one. Gaslighted and ridiculed and shunned by colleagues and patients.
Patient B, 40+ yrs old. Worsening breathlessness since 1st Covid. Slightly obese. Usual bloods normal. Chest pain and SOB worse with exercise. Cardio investigated and discharged. Sent her for extensive bloods. Highly abnormal autoimmune and flow cytometry bloods. Covid 2x.
•Repeated infections and flu over summer- it is the Covid.
•Sudden deaths- it is the Covid.
•New autoimmune diseases- it is the Covid.
•Aggressive cancers especially in younger population- it is the Covid.
•Heart attack in the 20s-30s, it is the Covid.
The list goes on.
In 1959, Eugene Ionesco wrote the absurdist play Rhinoceros in which one by one, an entire town of people suddenly transform into rhinos. At first, people are horrified but as the contagion spreads, (almost) everyone comes to accept that turning into a rhinoceros is fine. 1/
A very wise Dr told me today that if the govt don’t encourage diagnosis of Covid-19, then there won’t be long Covid (you may have the symptoms but no diagnosis of Covid means no LC), therefore no need to fix anything or give treatment or get NDIS. Make sense??
I wonder how many infections it would take for an individual to say, “Enough! Hybrid immunity is bullshit.” I feel sorry seeing my patients sick all the time. They ask me why I don’t fall sick. I tell them because I wear a mask and vaccinated. Covid is airborne. Easy peasy.
Just to be clear. We don’t need lockdowns. We are way past that. What we need is masking again. Look at the science. Mask works. Breathe clean air. You don’t drink dirty water. And get up to date with vaccination.
No masks required in healthcare.
Dr sees patients the whole day, unmasked. Patients unmasked.
Admin staff unmasked. Dr Colleague 1 full PPE continuous masking. Dr Colleague 2 intermittent N95 masking.
Dr tests RAT positive to Covid.
People are aware that Covid is spreading yet again. But they HOPE that they won’t get Covid again.
It is like people are aware the bush fire is just nearby. But HOPE that the fire won’t come and consume them or their property.
Hope is not going to save you.
@PeteUK7
Some days I find it demoralising when people tell me this. Said they are fine after 3 Covid infections. I’m a GP. I know medicine. I get quite upset when people say I live in fear. We are just doing our best to survive. Hope you know I hear you.
Flowers, balloons are banned in some hospitals. Why is it ok to catch covid from hospital? I’ve had enough and people need to take responsibility and held accountable for their bad decisions.
I have never caught Covid and no one outside has seen my smile since 2020.
@amapresident
As AMA president, you can do something. 10% is not a small figure. Why are we accepting that this is ok? Start telling the govt Covid is airborne and we need to mask up! Are these 10% not worth saving? Why are we even drs???
This tweet made me feel really sad. Sad that we failed these children. Sad that lives of these families have changed forever.
Do these world leaders have a conscience? Start to do the right thing? We need to change course and mitigate against covid which is airborne!
@mercurial_moons
@scott_squires
Same here!!! I hate masking. I hate not going dining indoors, going abroad, scuba dive…I wanna go back
to the real normal in 2018.
But because no one cares about Covid, I have to wear a n95 and live my life safely in new normal because Covid is AIRBORNE.
Absolutely preventable. Hence there are still novids around. It is not luck that kept me a novid all this while. It is PPE. We know how to stop spreading Covid. The higher powers just chose to ignore it.
Most people including my colleagues and family HOPE they don’t get COVID and long COVID.
Hope is never going to save one from catching COVID.
A mask and clean air will help mitigate. We don’t drink dirty water. Why should we breathe dirty air? Covid is NOT flu.
Covid infections have picked up once again. 9th wave- hybrid immunity and stuff like that were BS sold to us. Unless you have lots of savings and sick leave and can gamble on your health- I suggest wear a mask especially when indoors and ventilate the air.
Why would one rather NOT mask and live life “normally” at the risk of decimating one’s immune system?
I said “normally” because people are getting recurrent infections and encouraged by doctors to get sick to get healthier. This is NOT normal medical advice.
@kary_cee
The govt saying they got it wrong. Covid is extremely bad for health and we need to mitigate as we all have the tools.
The royal colleges are all echoing the govt.
People like me are gaslit and shunned upon.
These days, it is getting more common to hear so and so passed away suddenly. And died young. Do people not join the dots? What can cause sudden deaths? Not vaccine- do your research. It is Covid-19.
We have no cure for covid-19. Still want to spread it around?
Went for mammogram. Receptionist told me I don’t need to wear a mask. I told her I choose to. Lady who did my mammogram was close up to my face. She’s maskless. If some must wear steel capped boots as a work requirement, why did she accept the risk to fall sick?
I’ve been a GP long enough that I’ve never seen patients get influenza DURING SUMMER and when they did not even travel. Normally may see one or two travelling from
Northern/S hemisphere countries.
Covid-19 caused it. Pseudomonas is going to hit people too! Yay pathogens.
@YouAreLobbyLud
Your tweet resonates with me. I go to work as a dr because I need to earn and live. I don’t have sick leave. I had ARDS and been ventilated before. I wear all PPE I can at work. I impose isolation outside work and I do not have a social life. Just to stay alive.
From what I’m observing, people are only getting a POSITIVE RAT around day 5 of symptoms. Needless to say, spreading 2 days prior to onset of symptoms.
Please get a PCR. Better still, wear a mask and avoid catching Covid. Open windows, ventilate air. Get the XBB booster.
@SMpwrgr
@AlboMP
#VigilAgainstCovid
I can unmask once I’m behind the doors. Ventilated once, I know what it means to have a machine breathe for me. I’m a GP. GPs do not have sick leave. Who is going to pay my mortgage and bills when I’m stuck in ICU?
Just tonight. Checking my patient results inbox.
Another with secondary immune deficiency.
Another with low c3.
Another with high CD4/8 ratio. (Off the charts)
Another low c3.
Just tonight.
I am not a magician. I’m a dr. There’s no Covid treatment available!!!
As a society, if one doesn’t mask, one will catch Covid and spread it. How long would one accept to be on this perpetual merry go round?
Don’t say it is impossible not catching Covid because I’m a living proof. Many of my friends are. Those with kids are immensely difficult.
@DrMLivingston
I tell people it is Covid and I may as well be a Martian or look like one. Makes my blood boil. The truth hurts. And is inconvenient to people.
Just to let you know Covid-19 is a gift that keeps giving.
It is summer in Australia.
Influenza A is spreading thick and fast. So is COVID-19. But we don’t mention the latter here in Australia.
Wear a mask and wash your hands too!
Did you hear about the nasty pneumonia or the nasty RSV circulating or the nasty flu?
Truth. There’s nothing nasty about these viruses but your immune system is now compromised from repeated Covid infections. Even from one infection.
Suddenly most are now immunocompromised.
I have not been sick since 2020. I have not taken any sick leave. Apart from taking annual leave, I have not lost any income. My life. My choice. My health.
@TRyanGregory
I want to know. Why is wearing a mask such a problem?? It stops Covid spread. Isn’t that easy? Why is everyone anaphylactic when it comes to mask wearing?
My patient asked if we are still masking and still doing this when I asked her to mask up. I said yes. Covid still alive. Was she interested with my explanation of Covid and long Covid- NO!
Another patient asked if I was wearing my Halloween costume. My “costume” being my PPE!
We become so entitled and selfish that we only put our gains first against the better of humanity.
Despicable. And this is why Covid is spreading on and on and on. It will not stop until more take up the responsibility and mask up and stop being IGNORANT.
I can get statutory declaration from people that I’m masked all the time. Even walking my dog. I take this very seriously as I won’t be able to work if I get sick or long covid. It will affect my life.
If hospital won’t allow MRSA, why is Covid ok??? Covid is infinitely worse!
Covid is airborne. Since start of 2020, Covid has mutated so many times that the variant map is migraine inducing.
We are aiding this by letting it spread unchecked. Vaccines are not keeping up with the variants because it is spawning faster and technology can’t keep up.
@1goodtern
Interesting this. I know a dr who just had Covid. And the Dr is unmasked seeing patients. Why? What chances do we have of public doing the right thing?
@CantamessaLisa
@LettersfromTim
Exactly my point. So much easier to wear an N95 than to be locked up good ol’ consumption England way too. Key word like you said. COMPULSORILY COMMITTED.
If there is no enforceable law to wear car seatbelts, would you be wearing your seatbelt?
I know I will. Same with why I mask when I leave my house.
This is why we need mandates. Because some people can’t be trusted to do the right thing. To keep them and others safe.
I’m not asking you to mask. If you don’t want to, your choice. It is just heartbreaking as I’m seeing the damage from Covid 2022 in my patients. More and more have long covid but they don’t realise. Just thought they are getting older or life is just too busy.
@lindsayboyce85
@EnemyInAState
Nope. Not even that. Plain old boring staph aureus. Went to ED Children’s hospital before coming to me. Took almost 2 months to eradicate. These are fit and well kids. Never sick. It is the immune system after Covid.
@Linda365367391
Most GPs see the symptoms but they don’t join the dots. Most don’t even ask if the patient caught covid in the past. Stay safe!!! Plenty of Covid and long COVID out there.
Q1. Why do I mask or wear a respirator?
Because there’s an airborne virus causing havoc to multiple organs. I don’t want to be sick. Don’t want to have a new diagnosis. Don’t want to take medications. Not financially viable to be sick!
@1goodtern
I am extremely shocked to see how inundated the hospitals are. Why is the govt not doing anything? XBB.1.5 is already there. Apparently XBB.2 may be even worse?
I’ve accepted that my patient may catch Covid and may not survive. I can’t do anything more. And this is what frustrates me. It is totally unnecessary. If people treat Covid as it should be, I won’t be tweeting this right now. Since when is catching a virus and getting sick ok?
Shall we finally put this farce into perspective?
Put the final nail in the coffin of the pathetic and ridiculous comparison between Covid and Flu?
Here are the hospitalisations by Covid (2023) and Flu (2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2017) in England.
(data from SARI
My plan if I need to be admitted. HAI is NOT acceptable.
Pay for private PCR on the day I get admitted. Prior to that, I will make it crystal clear what I expect. Bring ionmax 1000 in. N95 all the way. Discharge- another PCR. Daily RATS and stay at home. I have cctv as proof.
Jordan got COVID in January 2022, & his life hasn’t been the same since.
He shares how his life has been impacted by long COVID & urges Victorians to stay ahead of the virus with protective steps.
Learn more about the symptoms & how to stay safe:
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There is a GP alert for Acute Post-Streoptococcal Glomeronephritis.
When are these healthcare professionals going to JOIN THE DOTS? Repeated COVID infections affect immune system and other systems.
Stop Covid spread. NOW! Wear a mask/respirator.
Two. Why spend time with an elderly patient immediately after an interstate holiday? People were more Covid conscious in the past. Of course, no mask worn this time. The reason: No symptoms, so not sick. People shed the virus 2 days before symptoms start. With new variants, 🤷🏽♀️
Great! No need to follow up notifiable diseases anymore. Have chlamydia? No worries. Start antibiotic today, have sex the next day without condoms.
Does anyone see how ridiculous CDC is getting?
@CDCgov
@jesseintl
11) Think about this— what if the CDC says - 📌‘NO NEED FOR CONDOMS ANYMORE IF YOUR HERPES OR SYPHILIS SYMPTOMS ARE IMPROVING SINCE YESTERDAY!!!’📌—because that is exactly the analogous policy the
@CDCgov
is now enacting with their new ‘to hell with it’ respiratory guidelines!
Look. Dr Claire also has never seen anything like this in all her years in respiratory medicine. And she’s a very experienced dr.
Join the dots. It is the covid.
Follow science and medics who tell the truth.
@1goodtern
Young man I know in resus for 10 hours this week with mycoplasma. High flow oxygen. Septic. In all my years I did in respiratory medicine I’ve never seen anything like that. Usually fit and well 30yo. Usually managed in community!
China warned us. Beware.
@PeteUK7
I’m sorry Pete. Met family friends who are unvaccinated, caught Covid 3 times and takes ivermectin. Told me to go catch Covid while in Australia so I get over with. I may not get ARDS again and may not need ventilator. I need to not live in fear. We are in this together.
@Michael59503746
Seriously. Are we really the tin foil hat people because it really seems like it. How on earth are they so certain they are in a vacuum free of Covid and everyone is 100% Covid free??? I’m. So. Tired. Mask you aerosol scientists!!! Mask!!!
I am immunocompromised. I have not been sick since 2020. I am vaccinated +++. I use a respirator, use hepa filters and I know how to avoid getting covid.
But boy am I fed up of a nation perpetuating sick citizens. Leaders who can’t tell the truth and can’t do the right thing.
Govts telling us that there’s a covid wave. An airborne virus. But still mask is not needed but let’s wash hands.
Let’s ponder for a minute. To stop an airborne virus, which means virus is in the air- how does hand washing help?
Why not a mask? Which filters out virus?
To those unaware, the acute phase of infection is not worrisome anymore. It is the chronic phase of the infection. Does flu do this to you? Covid is the 3rd cause of death in Australia, not flu. Top two being heart disease and dementia. Covid contributes to the top two too!!!
Beyond the acute illness: Exploring long COVID and its impact on multiple organ systems
Nice overview article, but again and again, a call to wake-up! "The goal of this review is to carefully evaluate the clinical signs and symptoms of long COVID, their underlying causes, and
@CollignonPeter
I wear a fit tested N95 at work and I check the seals every time I don it. Not caught covid yet.
Do life jackets or parachutes work if you just simply don it not following instructions? If my n95 is not sealing, I put a new one. There’s no RCTs on life jackets, why wear one?
I find it fascinating how the public blindly follows the govt and put all faith in them to keep safe, move on and live their normal lives. I shouldn’t need to explain to my patients why I need them masked in my consult room. I’m the doctor. Pandemic is medical. My lane.