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"When COVID-19 upended the world in 2020, Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly was studying climate
change, medication side effects and other big data questions.
“My COVID story, before the pandemic, we were doing a lot of research on lots
of other things,” said Al-Aly, who is the director of the clinical epidemiology
center at Washington University, and chief of research and education service at
the VA St. Louis Health Care System. “And then when the pandemic hit, we sort
of switched because we saw the country in crisis dealing with COVID. At that
time, we did not know anything about long COVID. So we pivoted to studying
COVID and then subsequently studying long COVID out of this feeling in our team
that the country was in crisis and we wanted to pitch in and help.”
That shift led to discoveries that reshaped his understanding of pandemics
altogether.
“I think the biggest lesson is that pandemics have long tails,” Al-Aly said.
“In their wake, they leave droves and droves of people who are impacted by
chronic disease that in some individuals may never go away. These are lasting
scars that will last in some people for their lifetime.”"
Via Violet Blue’s
Threat Model - Covid: September 18, 2025
https://www.patreon.com/posts/covid-september-139158191
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
