This blog.brittanijamesmd.com/p/lon… is an excellent overview of the current state of Long COVID knowledge.
Nothing surprising to anyone who's kept abreast of the science, but does an excellent job of summarizing
- the breadth and severity of impacts
- the medical system's inadequate response
- especially because LC is hard to be "visualized, quantified, or objectively measured", severe symptoms returning "normal labs, unremarkable imaging"
- muddy pathophysiology
and what might be the biggest hurdle to living with LC:
the absence of proof was often treated as evidence that the suffering itself might not be legitimate
(There's a few hints that the writing might have been LLM-assisted, but I noticed no factual errors. It might just be humans adopting LLM writing mannerisms, or it might have been "punched up" but properly reviewed by a human.)
#LongCOVID #Science #PublicHealth
Health is Political by Brittani James
“Long COVID Changed Everything”blog.brittanijamesmd.com/p/lon…
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Good blog post by Family Medicine physician Dr. Brittani James on what illnesses such as #LongCovid & ME reveal about medicine's limits.
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Long COVID Changed Everything
What a mass disabling event revealed about medicine’s limitsBrittani James, MD (Health is Political)
