Curious and knowledge driven MD. Medicine, ⚽️ & all in between. #PASC #Longcovid #airborne 🇸🇪 😷💉💉💉 @sofbreland@mastodon.world
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Sofia Breland, MD 🇸🇪🌎 retweeted
This is one of the best articles on severe ME I’ve ever seen coming out of the UK. Thanks to @KatieFalkingham for her insightful and well-researched coverage.
The Olympic sprinter now bedbound for 22 hours a day bbc.in/3TWaqpx
Sofia Breland, MD 🇸🇪🌎 retweeted
Excited to share our study by @keylas3 et al. on pathological autoantibodies in people with Long COVID. We asked whether IgG in patients with Long COVID bind to human tissues/antigens and cause pathologies when transferred into mice. With @PutrinoLab
doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2026.…
Sofia Breland, MD 🇸🇪🌎 retweeted
I have NEVER – EVER – had to encourage someone with ME to do more.
I always – ALWAYS – have to persuade them to do LESS.
To stop a favourite activity.
To adjust a task to lessen the effort.
Sofia Breland, MD 🇸🇪🌎 retweeted
Would like to note that many of us who are virologists, microbiologists m, immunologists and ID specialists have had this fear since the beginning of just given the nature of corona viruses
Personally, imo there is enough evidence to state it is. Why do I believe that?
“A growing number of scientists believe the SARS-CoV-2 virus may be subtly altering our immune systems. If correct, their hypothesis will change how we understand everything from RSV to shingles to sepsis.”
“It’s certainly impacting our immune health & probably.. overall health”
ALT Screenshot of BMJ article: Feature Covid-19 Why scientists are rethinking the immune effects of SARS-CoV-2 BMJ 2025; 390 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.r1733 (Published 19 August 2025) Cite this as: BMJ 2025;390:r1733
Sofia Breland, MD 🇸🇪🌎 retweeted
A fascinating new study by Vishnu Shankar et al. @stanfordimmuno shows that oxidative stress is a shared characteristic of ME/CFS and Long COVID in lymphocytes due to inability to clear reactive oxygen species. This happens in sex-specific manner. (1/)
pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pna…
Sofia Breland, MD 🇸🇪🌎 retweeted
Närstående som tar avstånd och läkare som hävdar att postcovid inte finns. I en ny rapport från Svenska Covidföreningen uppger många drabbade att de känt sig misstrodda av både vårdpersonal och människor de bryr sig om.
covidforeningen.se/ny-rappor…
Sofia Breland, MD 🇸🇪🌎 retweeted
Wanted to put forward a thread about #PEM since there have been some new developments and also because I just need to get some of this out of my head and work through it. Folks with infection- and exposure-associated chronic illnesses (IACIs) like #LongCOVID, #MECFS, 1/
Sofia Breland, MD 🇸🇪🌎 retweeted
I am excited to travel to Amsterdam next week to visit @DrDenDunnen and @RobWust for joint projects.
I will also be in Groningen for the ID-DarkMatter-NCD & ME/CFS Lines Joint Consortium Meeting. With the theme “Unraveling Post-Infectious Immune-Related Disorders.
Sofia Breland, MD 🇸🇪🌎 retweeted
Very excited and honored to visit @TheCrick to give the Crick Lecture and the 2025 Honess Lecture for Immunology this week on the "Immunology of Post-Acute Infection Syndrome"!
crick.ac.uk/whats-on/crick-l…
Sofia Breland, MD 🇸🇪🌎 retweeted
This week for #LongCovidAwarenessDay, we’ve compiled a fact sheet of up-to-date statistics & citations on Long COVID.
Data is one of the most useful tools to strengthen understanding of #LongCovid. We hope this resource helps our community's fight.🩵
patientresearchcovid19.com/2… 1/
ALT image of the teal Long COVID Awareness Day logo
Sofia Breland, MD 🇸🇪🌎 retweeted
I am excited to be part of this paper: "Targeting the SARS-CoV-2 reservoir in long COVID" by @microbeminded2 @MichaelPelusoMD and team, describing clinical trial recommendations for long COVID
@polybioRF
thelancet.com/journals/lanin…
Sofia Breland, MD 🇸🇪🌎 retweeted
Check out this new paper by @microbeminded2 @MichaelPelusoMD and colleagues describing new insights and clinical trial recommendations for "Targeting the SARS-CoV-2 reservoir in long COVID" 👇
@polybioRF
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
Sofia Breland, MD 🇸🇪🌎 retweeted
Ekot rapporterar om JO-anmälan av Socialstyrelsen. Vi menar att ärendet är principiellt viktigt att utreda. Myndigheter ska inte godtyckligt kunna välja vilka synpunkter och underlag som ska registreras.
sverigesradio.se/play/artike…
Sofia Breland, MD 🇸🇪🌎 retweeted
Here are the recordings of the children’s LongCOVID conference, organised by @surf4children. Danilo is a trailblazer and has done extraordinary work on treatment regimes. Also check out the talk by @BinitaKane on treatment. @PutrinoLab @LaelYonker @SammieFMc too.
recorded speakers include
@PutrinoLab @resiapretorius @BrodinPetter @DrMunblit @theovos @LaelYonker
direct link to youtube
youtu.be/V6lld9hrlEw
please share widely
Sofia Breland, MD 🇸🇪🌎 retweeted
Working with a great team to organize @KeystoneSymp on "#LongCOVID and Other Post-Acute Infection Syndromes #PAIS" #KSLongCOVID26
August 10-13, 2025 | Santa Fe
Hope to see you there!
keysym.us/KSLongCOVID26
Sofia Breland, MD 🇸🇪🌎 retweeted
academic.oup.com/eurheartj/a…
Hopefully, "a game changer" in unexplained syncope workup has been born. Merging cardiovascular autonomic testing including 24-hour blood pressure monitoring with prolonged ECG monitoring using implantable devices will create a new standard.
Sofia Breland, MD 🇸🇪🌎 retweeted
PEM has been shown to be associated with myopathy in patients where biopsies showed muscle necrosis and inflammation compared to controls. The idea that there's no neurological harm in triggering PEM is deeply flawed.
Sofia Breland, MD 🇸🇪🌎 retweeted
I am so excited to hear how many patients have benefitted from combinations of anticoagulants. It is 1 of the treatments for a subset of patients who have thrombotic endothelialitis. @BinitaKane @surf4children
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Sofia Breland, MD 🇸🇪🌎 retweeted
Beyond "immunity debt".
In what ways could SARS-CoV-2 be involved in surges of other infectious diseases like RSV, tuberculosis, fungal infections, Mycoplasma, etc.?
Here is a list of additional hypotheses, all increasingly supported in the scientific literature.
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Sofia Breland, MD 🇸🇪🌎 retweeted
@dysclinic these type of papers, together with the silly comments from Garner, that LongCOVID happens because of “A set of primitive alarm signals set off in your brain”, show ignorance and these individuals & their co-authors should be pointed out as promoting pseudoscience.
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