Here's a reminder of my take on #COVID-19 (the disease not the pandemic).
It's not what you think it is ...
A thread 👇
1/23
Dr Graham Lloyd-Jones
3,469 posts
Dr Graham Lloyd-Jones
@DrGrahamLJ
Consultant Radiologist/Anatomist/CEO@RadMasterclass/Linking #OralDysbiosis to systemic diseases/ Editor@SpringerNature(Current Oral Health Reports)/ Views mine
- Just a reminder that we used to think peptic ulcers were ‘all in the mind’ We wasted 40 years by calling it stress related until it was shown to be caused by H.pylori (a bacterium) #longCOVID is #notallinthemind it is caused by #SARSCoV2 (a virus)
- To all #radiologists. Have you seen the typical #COVID pulmonary vasculopathy on CXR/CT in the last week? We've not seen this since omicron became dominant Feb '22. I'm concerned we have a new variant which causes the same clotting in the lungs as delta/pre-delta. Please retweet
- Please can all papers on #COVID stop referring to the lung disease as ‘pneumonia’. It is a pulmonary vasculopathy (disease of the lung blood vessels). Airways not inflamed. Distribution = vascular. Clots and abnormal blood vessels are primary, not a ‘complication’ of ‘pneumonia’.
- Friends often ask me for medical advice outside my usual work as a radiologist. I have started to notice a pattern. Friend: My symptoms are… Me: When did these start Friend: X months ago Me: Have you ever had #COVID Friend: Yes Me: When Friend: X months ago 1/2
- It's strange how every day doctors ask me (a radiologist) to explain diseases to them but when a global pandemic comes along nobody thinks a radiologist can offer any insight. To anyone out there still using the term 'pneumonia' to refer to the lung disease in #COVID, it is not!
- The whole of medicine has been hoodwinked into thinking that the best medicine is therapeutic. It is not. The best medicine is preventative.
- Replying to @DrGrahamLJIt seems that people (including my medical friends) are not making the connection between new unexplained symptoms and onset at the time of having acute COVID. These are not trivial symptoms. #longCOVID #silentCOVID 2/2
- #COVID is a trimodal disease… 1/ Acute - Die v survive & recover 2/ #longCOVID - Persistent symptoms following severe or mild acute disease 3/ Long term ⬆️risk of all cause morbidity/mortality (regardless of recovery from acute or long symptoms) It’s all about clotting
- If in Dec 2020 you had told me it would take until April 2021 to get my #COVID research published, I’d have been disappointed. It has now been published (April 2025), 4 years later. bit.ly/4j6fIpx 👇 Here's my epic COVID-19 failure story … Long thread 1/25
- Just been invited by a major #Radiology journal to write a review on the imaging of #COVID Time to set the record straight Here is the first draft in a single post - It is NOT a pneumonia or pneumonitis It is an immunothrombotic vasculopathy (inflammatory clotting disease)
- I’ll say it again Dear medical colleagues who write about acute #COVID Stop calling the lung disease ‘pneumonia’ It is not! It is a pulmonary vasculopathy, a disease of the lung blood vessels Pneumonia causes airways inflammation COVID is the opposite of pneumonia! Thanks
- Replying to @DrGrahamLJInfluenza causes inflammation in the lung airways. #COVID did not do this. The lung disease we saw in the acute phase of COVID was a vascular disease. It caused inflammation, clotting, and congestion in the smallest blood vessels of the lungs. 3/23
- To all those with #longCOVID. I want you to know that doctors have not given up and that some of us are still doing our hardest to understand this disease (acute & long). We don’t know all the answers but hope remains. To all doctors and scientists - it is time to #collaborate