Authors CapOrbit
7 days
30 days
All time
Recent
Popular
Thread on long Covid and health risks.
Recovery from Covid is understood by most to be when acute phase symptoms, including fever, cough, fatigue, headaches, go away.
Are there hidden risks beyond the acute phase? Are some of them even fatal? Could some be prevented?
1/n
There is ample evidence that the body does not come back to pre-Covid equilibrium for some people, partly due to permanent damage to cells in different organs (as varied as pancreas, brain, lungs) for some and/or heightened inflammatory state in the body.
2/n
In light of this, it is important to recognize that there is need for caution even later. The impact of some of these long-covid conditions can be non-fatal but chronic. More worrying is the potential risk of death even months later.
3/n
I had heard of anecdotes first-hand from multiple friends of people passing away due to heart attacks, strokes, and pulmonary embolism. My interest in researching this in more detail was because it is affecting so many of us in India at the moment.
4/n
After a lot of perusing through medical papers through databases, I came across this study published in Nature.
High-dimensional characterization of post-acute sequalae of COVID-19
https://t.co/9C1EjHBUID
PDF can be downloaded here
5/n
Recovery from Covid is understood by most to be when acute phase symptoms, including fever, cough, fatigue, headaches, go away.
Are there hidden risks beyond the acute phase? Are some of them even fatal? Could some be prevented?
1/n
![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E0ShBI5UUAEu5MV.png)
There is ample evidence that the body does not come back to pre-Covid equilibrium for some people, partly due to permanent damage to cells in different organs (as varied as pancreas, brain, lungs) for some and/or heightened inflammatory state in the body.
2/n
In light of this, it is important to recognize that there is need for caution even later. The impact of some of these long-covid conditions can be non-fatal but chronic. More worrying is the potential risk of death even months later.
3/n
I had heard of anecdotes first-hand from multiple friends of people passing away due to heart attacks, strokes, and pulmonary embolism. My interest in researching this in more detail was because it is affecting so many of us in India at the moment.
4/n
After a lot of perusing through medical papers through databases, I came across this study published in Nature.
High-dimensional characterization of post-acute sequalae of COVID-19
https://t.co/9C1EjHBUID
PDF can be downloaded here
5/n
![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E0SiM5tVEAEk7bo.png)