1. Sign our petition calling on Cochrane to withdraw their review of Exercise Therapy for CFS here.
    Dismiss Notice
  2. Guest, the 'News in Brief' for the week beginning 18th March 2024 is here.
    Dismiss Notice
  3. Welcome! To read the Core Purpose and Values of our forum, click here.
    Dismiss Notice

Long Covid in the media and social media 2022

Discussion in 'Long Covid news' started by rvallee, Feb 3, 2022.

Thread Status:
Not open for further replies.
  1. ahimsa

    ahimsa Senior Member (Voting Rights)

    Messages:
    2,617
    Location:
    Oregon, USA
    Thanks for transcribing the text from the tweets. Twitter was not working for me yesterday afternoon. I just kept getting the loading image (GIF of a circle) but nothing ever loaded. But it's loading for me again.

    Anyway, I noticed that the text from very first tweet is missing so I thought I'd add it (even though it should not be needed when that embedded tweet is able to be displayed).

    Threads where the sentences span tweets are fairly difficult for me to read, but here's the text from the first two tweets:

    "Many changes are always needed, of course, but I'm seeing a specific need to shift an aspect of how mainstream media reports on #LongCOVID, #MECFS and other complex chronic illnesses. Recently there has been a slew of articles written by "learned doctors" (or even the 1/"

    "spouses of physicians) that aim to minimize, deny or psychologize #LongCOVID, #MECFS and other complex chronic illnesses. The problem is that mainstream media gives these article too much weight because they were written by folks with certain credentials who work at certain 2/"
     
    Last edited: Dec 29, 2022
    Louie41, Laurie P, alktipping and 4 others like this.
  2. Laurie P

    Laurie P Senior Member (Voting Rights)

    Messages:
    174
    Location:
    New England, USA
    sebaaa, Ariel, Louie41 and 5 others like this.
  3. mango

    mango Senior Member (Voting Rights)

    Messages:
    2,505
    Ariel, Louie41, livinglighter and 9 others like this.
  4. Laurie P

    Laurie P Senior Member (Voting Rights)

    Messages:
    174
    Location:
    New England, USA
    Ariel, Louie41, RedFox and 4 others like this.
  5. Trish

    Trish Moderator Staff Member

    Messages:
    51,871
    Location:
    UK
  6. Trish

    Trish Moderator Staff Member

    Messages:
    51,871
    Location:
    UK
    ladycatlover and RedFox like this.
Thread Status:
Not open for further replies.

Share This Page