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Dr Elisa Perego
@elisaperego78.bsky.social
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#LongCovid | researcher | Covid | infectious disease | health, disability, inequality in present and past | human-environment interactions | big data | medicine history | patient-led research | MA PHD| ≠ MD |

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Dr Elisa Perego @elisaperego78.bsky.social · Aug 17
My new research is out

"A Case Definition of a New Disease: A Review of the US Working Definition (USG) and 2024 NASEM Definition for Long COVID"

I use two US #LongCovid case definitions as case studies for a broader discussion of SARS-CoV-2 sequelae
Review article by Elisa Perego on Long Covid and two LC case definitions in the US

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Dr Elisa Perego @elisaperego78.bsky.social · 3d
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Dr Elisa Perego @elisaperego78.bsky.social · 3d
Costs of #LongCovid "are estimated at an average annual burden of $1 trillion globally"

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com

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Dr Elisa Perego @elisaperego78.bsky.social · 3d
Link: www.the-sun.com/news/1552785...
Tragic singer who never recovered from Covid she caught five years ago dies
A POPULAR singer and mum-of-one has tragically died after contracting Covid-19 five years ago. Eva Rodrigues Praia Walkey spent nearly five years battling the horror after-effects of the illness be…
www.the-sun.com

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Dr Elisa Perego @elisaperego78.bsky.social · 3d
Link: aventurasnahistoria.com.br/noticias/his...
Há 400 dias internada após Covid: Família planeja retorno de cantora - Aventuras na História
Eva Rodrigues deu entrada no hospital em 3 de janeiro de 2021; 13 meses depois, ela deu um passo importante para receber alta
aventurasnahistoria.com.br

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Dr Elisa Perego @elisaperego78.bsky.social · 3d
Eva was hospitalized in early 2021 with Covid and discharged only over one year later, when she was reported to be conscious, but remained with severe pulmonary and neurological sequelae. She has died in November 2025 at home in Manaus surrounded by family and little son Ethan

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Dr Elisa Perego @elisaperego78.bsky.social · 3d
Brazilian singer Eva Rodrigues Praia Walkey has passed away in her 40s after fighting #LongCovid for five years. She endured lengthy hospital stays, 400 days in a coma, a cesarean section the day she was first hospitalized with hypoxia, 2 cardiac arrests, and lost 20% of her lungs

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Dr Elisa Perego @elisaperego78.bsky.social · 3d
It's an individual and gruelling sport so I an not surprised to see obvious impact. And sure, v few would speak about Covid

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Dr Elisa Perego @elisaperego78.bsky.social · 3d
It's mostly what I say here but with more links. Bsky doesn't work very well for me

Reposted by Elisa Perego

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Long Covid Kids @longcovidkids.bsky.social · 3d
"Hi my name is Marcie, I am nearly 12 years old, I was diagnosed with Long Covid last year but I have been having symptoms since 2021"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9817...

#ChildHealth #LongCovidKids #LongCovid
Marcie's Story | Long Covid & Me | Understanding Long Covid In Children And Young People
YouTube video by Long Covid Kids
www.youtube.com

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Dr Elisa Perego @elisaperego78.bsky.social · 4d
"Happy to get the win [over Spain's Munar],” tennis star Zverev said. “I’m not feeling my best, so, was lacking energy a little bit yesterday and overnight". He's said to be "coughing" and lack voice in post match interviews (Spain in the end won the Davis semifinals) (I have the full thread on X)

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Dr Elisa Perego @elisaperego78.bsky.social · 4d
"I am ill but I will give everything"

Tennis star Alexander Zverev shared to be unwell and not fully fit after tighly beating Jaume Munar at the Davis Cup today. He's reported to have "a flu" and be "coughing" in the press.

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Dr Elisa Perego @elisaperego78.bsky.social · 5d
Please remember that the UK had seen what happened in Wuhan (China) and Lombardy (Italy) when they had to decide in the end how to mitigate for Covid in 2020. And the evidence was that unmitigated SARS-CoV-2 spread was recipe for disaster

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Dr Elisa Perego @elisaperego78.bsky.social · 5d
"A total of 634 fetal samples (538 from fetuses of women who were SARS-CoV-2 infected during pregnancy), from 32 tissue types, [were] collected and analyzed in [the] study. The study raises concerns over transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from the mother to the foetus in pregnancy

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Dr Elisa Perego @elisaperego78.bsky.social · 5d
"Women of both groups [those who had Covid in pregnancy and the controls who didn't] opted for second-trimester pregnancy termination due to either elective abortion or fetal abnormalities."

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Dr Elisa Perego @elisaperego78.bsky.social · 5d
Autopsies of 18 foetuses showed that "SARS-CoV-2 can be widely distributed in fetal organs through vertical transmission". In addition immune and DNA damage were found in the infected organs

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Presence of SARS-CoV-2 in fetal organs via intraamniotic infection - Nature Communications
Infection with SARS-CoV-2 during pregnancy may result in maternal and fetal complications. Here, the authors analyze 18 fetuses following maternal SARS-CoV-2 infection and identify distribution in fet...
www.nature.com

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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 6d
Friend this morning ‘you want to go to the pub’. I don’t know what to say anymore, those around me ignore my situation entirely. Five years campaigning and still don’t have good vaccine access or any awareness of airborne risk, post infection risk. There is a failure to inform on risk.

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Dr Elisa Perego @elisaperego78.bsky.social · 6d
Thanks very much much🙏 I have been sharing a lot on X about this. Tragic

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Dr Elisa Perego @elisaperego78.bsky.social · 6d
Health Communication in the Age of Platforms: Drivers of Misinformation and the Crisis of Medical Expertise

www.mdpi.com/2673-8392/5/...

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Dr Elisa Perego @elisaperego78.bsky.social · 6d
COVID-19 in Libano: analys of a Beirut cohort and literature synthesis by El Hadi et al 2025

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Unsupervized clustering reveals a tri-phenotype model of hospitalized COVID-19 patients: Beirut cohort study and literature synthesis - Christopher El Hadi, Rindala Saliba, Georges Maalouly, Moussa R...
Introduction COVID-19, caused by severe acure respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, has posed unprecedented challenges globally, with diverse clinical manifestati...
journals.sagepub.com

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Dr Elisa Perego @elisaperego78.bsky.social · 7d
I personally agree it's not enough including because the whole funding is spread in ten years. We are sick now and have been for years

Reposted by Elisa Perego

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Long Covid Advocacy @longcovidadvoc.com · 8d
🎙️ME Debate TODAY!
🏛️ Westminster Hall
🕓 4.30pm (UK time)
Led by @tessamunt.bsky.social MP
📺 To watch:
Parliamentlive.tv
Westminster Hall
www.parliamentlive.tv

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Dr Elisa Perego @elisaperego78.bsky.social · 8d
I can't express myself on the other things you mentioned such as nasal sprays as I have seen conflicting opinions on that and I am not an expert on that specific topic, but thanks for writing about masking

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Dr Elisa Perego @elisaperego78.bsky.social · 8d
Not a problem:)

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Dr Elisa Perego @elisaperego78.bsky.social · 8d
Airborne pathogens such as SARS-CoV-2 can spread and linger in the air, a bit like cigarette smoke. High quality masks/respirators are key to preventing infection, especially in indoor spaces.

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Dr Elisa Perego @elisaperego78.bsky.social · 8d
Link: www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...
€500m to tackle ‘huge burden’ of long Covid and similar conditions - Research Professional News
Decade-long German programme to address “enormous” need for research into conditions including chronic fatigue syndrome
www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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Dr Elisa Perego @elisaperego78.bsky.social · 8d
"€500m to tackle ‘huge burden’ of long Covid and similar conditions"

Germany is set to fund a half a billion euros for research in post infectious diseases in the next ten years

It is my hope funding will go to critical biomedical research and trials

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Dr Elisa Perego @elisaperego78.bsky.social · 8d
Immune damage in #LongCovid

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Immune damage in Long Covid
Links between the complement and coagulation systems could lead to Long Covid therapies
www.science.org

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Dr Elisa Perego @elisaperego78.bsky.social · 8d
There are obviously more publications available on the topic on repositories such as PubMED. I want to thank all those who intervened with other publications in the discussion/thread below the first paper I shared. Looking forward to more research on this very important issue

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Dr Elisa Perego @elisaperego78.bsky.social · 8d
These are just some examples of publications, including in the top Science journal, which address the issue of immune dysfunction/dysregulation following SARS-CoV-2 infection. This is a topic that deserves the upmost attention in my opinion and I hope to see more research on it

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Dr Elisa Perego @elisaperego78.bsky.social · 8d
Why scientists are rethinking the immune effects of SARS-CoV-2 (recognizing the immune system can be altered by SARS-CoV-2 infection). BMJ, 2025