Felicity Callard
Professor of Human Geography, University of Glasgow | mental health | medical humanities & social sciences | editor @Histhum | still recovering from #Covid19
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Some Covid Survivors Have Antibodies That Attack the Body, not Virus
New research found ‘autoantibodies’ similar to those in lupus and rheumatoid arthritis patients. But patients may also benefit from treatments for those autoimmune diseases.
Felicity Callard
Evidence of misguided immune response through production of autoantibodies (suggestive of processes which also occur in conditions such as lupus & rheumatoid arthritis): might explain some #LongCovid cases.
NB From pre-print: paper not yet peer-reviewed
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Coronavirus in Campania, il medico: «Noi come in guerra, costretti a scegliere chi salvare e chi no»
Malati Covid nei corridoi, altri in attesa sulle ambulanze, turni massacranti per medici e infermieri. «Siamo in guerra, e sappiamo che nonostante i nostri sforzi perderemo»: Pietro di...
Covid-19 case dashboard
Monitoring cases of Covid-19 in UK higher and further education.
Felicity Callard
Already this term nearly 30k students & staff cases infected in HE & FE ucu.org.uk/covid-dashboard
I hope someone’s investigating #LongCovid in unis. Some data indicate as many as 1 in 3 with symptoms several months on. That’s a whole lot of Long Covid UK unis have helped incubate
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'A living hell': the serious and persistent symptoms of 'long COVID'
It has been more than 100 days since Garry Keeping caught coronavirus and his hands still shake uncontrollably.
Feminists Theorize COVID-19: A Symposium - Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
Essays by Sari Altschuler and Priscilla Wald, Mel Y. Chen, Cynthia Enloe, Evelynn M. Hammonds, Cindy Patton, and Miraim Ticktin.
Cognitive deficits in people who have recovered from COVID-19 relative to controls: An N=84,285 online study
Case studies have revealed neurological problems in severely affected COVID-19 patients. However, there is little information regarding the nature and broader prevalence of cognitive problems post-infection or across the full spread of severity. We...
Felicity Callard
Usual warnings necessary re inferring causation from a cross-sectional study (pre-print):
@HampshireHub et al’s analysis of test data from 80k+ people shows ‘significant cognitive deficits’ in those recovered from mild as well as severe Covid #LongCovid
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When the Doctor Is a Covid ‘Long Hauler’
Coronavirus may leave patients with a condition called POTS that makes the heart rate soar after even the mildest activities.
Felicity Callard
A 37-year old psychiatrist discusses her debilitating symptoms after an initially mild infection — she has now been diagnosed with dysautonomia #POTS
#LongCovid
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At 12, She’s a Covid ‘Long Hauler’
Although most young people recover quickly, doctors are seeing more children and teens with lingering fatigue and other chronic problems.
Coronavirus news live – latest UK updates: Tougher restrictions to affect millions in next 24 hours as government unveils extra support measures
Latest coronavirus updates from the UK and worldwide - as government increases financial support for businesses and employees.
Your COVID Recovery
An NHS resource to support your recovery after COVID-19.
Multi-organ impairment in low-risk individuals with long COVID
Background: Severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection has disproportionately affected older individuals and those with underlying medical conditions. Research has focused on short-term outcomes in hospital, and single...
Felicity Callard
Young people do not necessarily escape unscathed #LongCovid
‘In a young, low-risk population with ongoing symptoms, almost 70% of individuals have impairment in 1 or more organs 4 months after initial symptoms’
Pre-print from @PerspectumGroup study
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Cytokine elevation in severe and critical COVID-19: a rapid systematic review, meta-analysis, and comparison with other inflammatory syndromes
The description of a so-called cytokine storm in patients with COVID-19 has prompted
consideration of anti-cytokine therapies, particularly interleukin-6 antagonists.
However, direct systematic comparisons of COVID-19 with other critical illnesses...
Felicity Callard
Another challenge to the “cytokine storm” narrative
@danleisman et al argue that ‘descriptor cytokine storm is problematic and alternative mechanisms of COVID-19-induced organ dysfunction are worth considering’
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Finding the 'right' GP: a qualitative study of the experiences of people with long-COVID
Background An unknown proportion of people who had an apparently mild COVID-19 infection continue to suffer with persistent symptoms, including chest pain, shortness of breath, muscle and joint pains, headaches, cognitive impairment (‘brain fog’),...
Felicity Callard
#LongCovid qualitative study (24 interviews | thematic analysis)
'Finding the 'right' GP: a qualitative study of the experiences of people with long-COVID':
Tom Kingstone, Anna Taylor, Catherine O'Donnell, Helen Atherton, @dnblane, @CizCG
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Trouble in the trough: how uncertainties were downplayed in the UK’s science advice on Covid-19
The 2020 Covid-19 pandemic has forced science advisory institutions and processes into an unusually prominent role, and placed their decisions under intense public, political and media scrutiny. In the UK, much of the focus has been on whether the...
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Felicity Callard
I recommend this nuanced article by @WarrenPearce in @HSScomms on how doubling rate was discussed in early months of the pandemic — and the consequences this has for how we think about knowledge producers, knowledge users, and scientific consensus #COVID19
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Creating bonds with a baby expected to die at birth
This personal essay by Tamarin Norwood charts the months of late pregnancy following a terminal prenatal diagnosis, when an unexplained congenital condition led to oligohydramnios: the depletion of…
Felicity Callard
*What*...*what* an essay
Sending love to you, @TamarinNorwood
thepolyphony.org/2020/10/14/cre… #BLAW2020 @the_polyphony
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Taking pandemic sequelae seriously: from the Russian influenza to COVID-19 long-haulers
In January, 1892, the English social reformer and women's rights campaigner Josephine
Butler wrote to her son, Stanley, to complain of fatigue and a general declension
of the spirits. Butler attributed her symptoms to an attack of “Russian...
Kids struggle with Covid-19 and its months of aftermath
Children and teenagers make up about 10% of the total number of US coronavirus infections. Some have been rocked by long-haul symptoms lasting more than six months with no clear timeline for improvement or even expectation for a cure.
‘I Feel Like I Have Dementia’: Brain Fog Plagues Covid Survivors
The condition is affecting thousands of patients, impeding their ability to work and function in daily life.
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Felicity Callard
This gives a real sense of the profundity of what many with #LongCovid are grappling with
And thank you to all those with other diagnoses/health problems who have, prior to this pandemic, paved the way in terms of communicating about “brain fog”
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Phenomenology, Power, Polarization, and the Discourse on Psychosis: Nev Jones, PhD
Having experienced psychosis herself, a psychologist wants us to rethink how we understand and treat this complex condition.
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Felicity Callard
An excellent interview with Nev Jones @viscidula (by @awaisaftab) on how service users need to be invited to the table (with clinicians, researchers, service providers, etc) as ‘epistemic agents and interlocutors rather than informants’
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