Martin W. Angler
Martin W. Angler
@martinangler.com
Science Journalist #LongCovid Context ABSW 2024 Awards Finalist theMHS 2024 Awards "Highly Commended" Portfolio https://muckrack.com/martinangler
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@scripps.edu is launching a *fully remote* #LongCovid clinical #trial, testing a GLP-1 receptor agonist (the antidiabetic tirzepatide) vs placebo. Must be 18 or older, and US citizens only, with a documented LC diagnosis: longcovid.scripps.edu/locitt-t/
What does "cost" mean? It includes but is not limited to: medical bills nursing costs loss of work lost tax revenues productivity losses lost purchasing power NB: These are not one-off but yearly variable costs. Sources: handelsblatt.com/politik/deut... context.news/socioeconomi... 3/3
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Children and teens who had a Covid reinfection had a doubling of #LongCovid risk (PASC) and a significant increase in many other adverse outcomes (Figure) www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Review: "Metformin is an intriguing multiaction drug that may play a significant role in treating ME/CFS and Long Covid" pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
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Das Interesse am Klimathema geht zurück. Wie kann ich jetzt als Wissenschaftler kommunizieren? Alternativen, Kritik etc. welcome... (Danke an @martinangler.com für die Redaktion) www.eurac.edu/de/blogs/con...
Dass nach wie vor vereinzelte Stimmen der Wissenschaft den Schritt von Schwerstbetroffenen zur Sterbehilfe als Beleg für eine psychische Genese der Erkrankung deuten, verurteilt Anschober: "Suizid ist ja der Aufschrei der Verzweiflung - und den zu instrumentalisieren, ist letztklassig".
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One more time, just in case anyone hasn't yet seen it. Gutted at today's news of a double child drowning. Please read and share.
Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...
In dem Interview steht so manches Richtige & Schätzenswerte. Doch hier drei Gedanken/Korrekturen dazu. 1. Die Forderung nach 1 Mrd. Forschungsgeldern zu stellen, ist schön, aber aus dem politischen Abseits einfach, besonders wenn man selbst nicht (mehr) in der Pflicht ist, sie umzusetzen. 1/3
Seit Corona leiden viele Menschen an der chronischen Krankheit ME/CFS. Hier spricht Ex-Gesundheitsminister Lauterbach über eigene Fehler und erzählt, warum ihm der Fall einer jungen Frau besonders nahegeht.
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Ein sehr gut verständliches Interview von @martinangler.com mit dem Sportwissenschaftler Christian Puta zu der Frage, was die Post-Exertionelle Malaise #PEM bei #MECFS ist und was dabei im Körper passiert: t.co/d1U1ykX4bm
"Cause of post-COVID inflammatory shock in children identified" (spoiler: it's reactivated EBV). Press release by Charité Berlin: www.charite.de/en/service/p...
Versuch und Irrtum: Für GEO+ habe ich aufgeschrieben, warum und wie sich von #LongCovid Betroffene selbst behandeln. Gespräche dafür unter anderem mit @kathrynhoffmann.bsky.social. Paywalled - aber es gibt Gratis-Probeabos für 30 Tage: www.geo.de/wissen/gesun...
A while ago, I talked with Danny Altmann about the immunology of LC and why not every of the circulating theories is worth being hyped. More such talks to come, health permitting. If you subscribed on Youtube that'd mean a lot to me . Have a listen, it's free: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIPk...
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I'd probably only trust someone like Jamie Ducharme to write this one. The psychologization of severe-presenting #MECFS and #LongCOVID. Worth a read. 🧪 Props to Rivka Solomon, and other people with lived experience who spoke. time.com/7206080/long...
Neuer Soundbite mit Christian Puta von der @uni-jena.de: Wie sich der Ruhepuls als Indiz dafür nutzen lässt, um vorab #PEM zu erkennen. Hier reinhören (2'20'', Deutsch): youtube.com/watch?v=3cTO... #LongCovid #MECFS #ChronicIllness
A survey is collecting data from PAIS patients (post-Covid, Lyme, EBV etc) from all over the world. Participation is online. Here's the link: s2survey.net/pais/ It's run by the Medical University Vienna, @univie.ac.at and the Austrian society for ME/CFS. H/T @neurostingl.bsky.social!
A while ago, I had a conversation about Long Covid with Ziyad Al-Aly @zalaly.bsky.social. We talked about Paxlovid and why many can't get it, premature aging, why so many LC researchers don't wear masks and about clean air. Listen in, it's free: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiCq...
Hier kommt mein Übersichtsartikel über Long Covid in Bild der Wissenschaft (hinter einer Paywall oder im aktuellen Heft). EN: My piece on Long Covid is out (Paywall, German). Gespräche dazu unter anderem mit @zalaly.bsky.social und @scheibenbogen.bsky.social. www.wissenschaft.de/bdwplus/die-...
Mein Interview mit Christian Puta von der @uni-jena.de über (muskuläres) #PEM ist online! EN: My interview with Christian Puta on #PEM is now online and accessible without paywall (it's in German but browser translation does a decent job): www.wissenschaft.de/gesundheit-m...
"As BC007 was well tolerated and showed a significant improvement of fatigue and quality of life, it might offer a therapeutic option for an autoimmune subgroup of PCS patients" The preprint has just been published on @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
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[10 Dec 2024] Opening Remarks from Dr Tedros at yesterday’s @who.int media briefing: “We cannot talk about COVID in the past tense. “It’s still with us, it still causes acute disease and Long COVID, and it still kills. “The world might want to forget about COVID-19, but we cannot afford to.”
“Long COVID is not a psychological condition,” Becker said. “It is a medical condition, and it should be treated as such.” -Jacqueline Becker, neuropsychologist at Mount Sinai Now, who tells the online docs without LC expertise who claim that LC is psychosomatic? www.apa.org/monitor/2025...
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#UniteToFight2024 All 50 talks of the so-far biggest conference on #MECFS and #LongCovid are now available with 🇬🇧 subtitles. Transcribed by amazing volunteers, many of them patients themselves 🙏💙 Please share and help make the incredible insights of this conference more broadly accessible.
#UniteToFight2024 🇬🇧 subtitles In this 🧵 I will continue to add all talks that have been transcribed & 🇬🇧 subtitled by volunteers. I am humbled and deeply impressed by how much effort so many volunteers have been putting into this, despite many being ill themselves. Thank you all so much! 🙏💙
This is a big question mark for studies that assess LC recovery using patients‘ self-reporting. How do you distinguish between actually being better or merely having adapted to a new lower baseline? Recovery claims in such studies may be misleading = too high.
It turns out my #LongCovid wasn't "better". After 4 years, I am just very good at pacing. Deciding to "push through the fatigue" on a busy weekend has resulted in a week of pain and exhaustion. Hey ho. Lesson learned. Grateful that my case is mild so such errors are just inconvenient not disastrous
"Australian primary school students have recorded their best ever results in an international maths and science assessment, curbing concerns about lockdowns disrupting learning." Must be a hard blow for those claiming how detrimental the lockdowns were. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
It's all about framing. This Guardian piece's headline is perfectly correct. But here is an eq. correct alternative: "Thirty percent of teenagers with Long Covid not recovered after two years, study shows" Which one leads readers to view LC as less harmful? www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
New study from Australia: A blood-based mRNA signature distinguishes people with Long Covid from recovered individuals. The potential to become valid LC biomarkers is there. Small sample size is a caveat, as the authors acknowledge. www.frontiersin.org/journals/imm...
Prime example of how studies get misinterpreted and instrumentalised to fit one's own worldview. Open Access & online studies are a great achievement. The downside is that people who can't properly read & understand a scientific study just conveniently fit findings to their own narrative.
Mainstream media will not report on this peer-reviewed study that shows being vaccinated against covid is no guarantee that covid will not infect your skull and your brain and your nervous system membrane for years www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...