Dr Louise Hyde

1/ Time for an updated version of my pinned thread from the bird site. The science has moved on, but the car crash continues & I can’t stop watching. This is a synthesis of everything I have learnt about Covid & #LongCovid in almost five years of reading the research. Prepare for a long thread 🧵

Researchers at the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute studied 47 people, including 35 with Long COVID. 41% of patients could not tolerate upright tilt despite normal sympathetic nerve activity and blood pressure. Impaired blood flow may be why. journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1...

A working group appointed by Iceland's Director of Health has produced a strong in-depth report with 42 recs for healthcare, social services, uni's, insurance and public funding It clearly states the need to move from psychologisation to funding & support. www.icelandreview.com/news/iceland...

CVF's funding is critically low. If you can help to support our work it is always very much appreciated! 🙏 www.clinicallyvulnerable.org/donate

Our open letter to UK infection control leads went today. Patients can be asked to remove their FFP2 or FFP3 mask, or swap it for a surgical one, while staff can now choose a respirator if treating a patient with respiratory symptoms. clinicallyvulnerable.org/letters/right-to-mask #RightToMask

💌 Excellent letter by Beth Dobbin to @andyburnham.bsky.social Her post received 1.2 million viewson IG! Andy we urgently need: 1) NHS commissioned care 2) Select committee inquiry 3) National clinical lead/Tsar 4) Research funding +

My friend's 15yr old has severe COVID-induced POTS that has hugely affected their quality of life. They've just been diagnosed with psoriatic arthritis and need to start methotrexate. COVID infections are no joke. They're not training your immune system. They're DAMAGING it.

🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: Canadian scientists at the University of Waterloo Dr. Brian Ingalls, Dr. Sara Sadr, and Dr. Marc Aucoin have engineered “tumor-eating” bacteria that can invade and consume cancerous tumors from within. A potential breakthrough in cancer treatment research.

Cleaning the air in schools would be such a win/win/win: Less acute sickness for kids Less student absences Better learning outcomes Less school staff sickness Less illness in the general public Less medical systems overwhelmed Less longterm health issues Less early deaths 1/2

Runaway AI poses a threat to us all. How humanity stays in control should be a priority for everyone Projection location: Slough, UK Narrated by @gavinesler.bsky.social

Beth Dobbin Olympic athlete who is now nearly totally confined to bed with severe #ME has written to Andy Burnham with some details about the illness and a suggestion as to how he might bring the welfare bill down.

Northwich Guardian: 'Whitehall to light up purple for PoTS Awareness Day' www.northwichguardian.co.uk/news/2664375...

A Swiss court has ruled that Long Covid in a nurse IS an occupational disease. None of the four UK nations have done this yet. shh-uk.org/swiss-cou... #LongCovid #LongCovidAwareness #HealthcareWorkers #NHS #MECFS

Just came here to gloat that I got today’s Wordle in two! 😊

It is OUR taxes that are being used to terrorise the global majority. It is OUR workers that invent, produce & ship the necessary materials to terrorisr the global majority. It is OUR soldiers, that go to xyz country to assist. WE CAN STOP! #israel #palestine #news #france #Europe #USA #US

This is the disease for which I research and advocate: #MECFS. Even mild presentation is life-changing, and this is what severe looks like. People are surprised so many of us were athletes. They want to believe this can only happen to people who were already unwell. www.bbc.com/sport/athlet...

“I’ve gone from training five hours a day to being bedbound 22 and a half hours a day.” Former GB sprinter Beth Dobbin describes how #ME has changed her life. #MECFS

If all the people that believe long COVID is in the mind were right (they’re not) it would still be an emergency, and it would still require disease prevention… because preventing infection is still the only way we can be sure this thing won’t turn up… and what they have tried to treat it has made

I don’t understand why this isn’t an emergency. Do something.

What makes healthcare so special that it is exempt from OH&S requirements to wear respiratory protection? Triage for a start has no freaking idea what the pathogen is, let alone the risks involved… ED doesn’t either for the most part… and things crop up on the wards… Why is healthcare exempt?

You are not defined by your worst decision, biggest mistake or most embarrassing day. You’re more than your health issues, job status or ability to produce for capitalism. We’re all doing our best to survive… and you are worth it just as you are.

Wondered why my dog wouldn't come when I called him. Then I found this.

feels like we should make a larger talking point out of the fact that AI is just another attempt to consolidate wealth for billionaires

Oopsie for the 6th year in a row. Because why do serious prevention when you can overwhelm health care each year. "The figures show there were 950 hospital admissions for Covid in August and the total jumped to 4,939 in September, up by around 420 per cent." www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Mog is “helping” me make the bed!

Came home to this today. I only own the dog.

Deadly betrayal of essential workers, Society forgetting children with Long Covid, Clean air eliminating Covid, and more johndupuis.substack.com/p/deadly-bet...

I'd have more respect for racists if they just said "I am a racist." All this dancing around "they won't integrate" and "legitimate concerns" is mealy-mouthed bollocks. Just grow a spine. Have the courage of you fucking awful convictions, and stop assuming we're all as stupid as you are.

It only feels “radically progressive” because we’ve spent 40 years normalising radically regressive ideas. This was broadly how Britain worked from 1945–79, when average GDP growth was 2.6% a year — compared with 1.9% in the post-Thatcher years. It works www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

EXC: An estimated 150,000 children have been lifted out of poverty in the six months since Labour scrapped the two-child benefit limit. Labour party chair Bridget Phillipson will reveal the scale of change delivered by scrapping the cap in her speech today. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

I hear immigrant children also have heartbeats.

Give me your best vegan recipes, please! I seem to have become allergic/intolerant to cheese. 😢 Bonus points if your kids will eat them!

If Parliament fails to pass immediate donation caps to stop billionaires buying UK elections, MPs are directly complicit in the collapse of our democracy. Allowing uncapped mega-cash to dictate policy erodes public trust. Why let dark money win? 🤔 #FBPE

Of Course The Virus That Has Killed Millions Doesn’t Disable People