Well-known, famous people with Covid-19 and Long Covid

The US CDC director, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, has tested positive for COVID-19. This is the same person who downplayed masks and air filtration as preventative measures (once compared mask wearing to the "scarlet letter").

I would not wish COVID (or any other illness) on anyone! I hope no one reads that message into my comments!

I'm just saying that it's not surprising that not wearing a mask will increase your risk of getting sick. And it's not a good message to send when you are a leader in public health.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/22/health/cdc-director-positive-covid/index.html

 

10 minute interview on BBC 5 Live Sport (starts at 48:15).

Her description of losing her life as a pro-tennis player, now with severe LC/ME and PEM at 21 is stark. Even so, she comes across as such a vibrant, positive voice.

She wants to recover and do medicine, so she can change things. I hope she does.

 

Another top class athlete - career ended. Selina Rutz-Büchel

Swiss middle distance champion. (Obviously she should consider some exercise therapy )

https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/die-sc...n-tritt-wegen-long-covid-zurueck-760969270830

 

Not as famous as some but science youtuber Physics Girl:

https://twitter.com/user/status/1590731678456066048

 

+12 months.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1593188745448079360

 

https://twitter.com/user/status/1604631311964164099

 

https://twitter.com/user/status/1620179119781842944


https://covidcastaways.org/when-athletes-the-famous-get-long-haul-covid/

 

Copied post: Colin Farrell

 

An update from prominent YouTuber, Physics Girl, with Long Covid:

https://twitter.com/user/status/1625339750000525312

 

Image so can't quote but a pro hockey player (NHL) who missed an entire season and is stepping back again after returning to play. Used to be a superstar player.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1627397617448546305

 

According to a friend, PhysicsGirl has ME/CFS due to Covid. Thread here

 

In the latest episode where Dr. Griffin provides clinical updates at TWiV, he gets a question concerning Physics girl and says he had heard about how sick she has become.

The question he gets is if it's really possible to become so sick from ME/CFS that it's life threatening. Dr. Griffin doesn't quite answer that, but asks people around Physics girl to get in touch, because there are things he can do. But he doesn't say anything about what they're able to do for severe ME/CFS.

At approximately 25 min:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10nGHfSEX2M

 

I never get the “Kate Garraway’s husband” bit. Derek Draper was a key and well-known player in Labour’s internecine Blairite v Brownite noughties squabbles. Every issue of Private Eye featured “Dolly” Draper’s latest machinations. He’s much more of a celebrity than his wife, as far as I’m concerned.

Anyway, poor sod. I wish him all the best.

 

Who's this Garrawy lady anyway?
(Moderators please delete if this is a Lineker moment, or maybe not. Ah, these hard decisions.)

 

She presents a programme on the televisual apparatus, m’lud.

 

Must be on that new channel, certainly not BBC.

 

This may come off the wrong way and I mean absolutely no harm or snark by it, but it's a bit distressing that you'd think Derek Draper was the only person who was so ill following covid? I remember seeing a piece which said he was the sickest covid patient in the country (who wasn't dead?) or had been the worst affected. There is no context to these stories.

Sorry if I am not making the point well, it just seems like it's all about "this shouldn't have happened to us and it's a rare story" rather than "this shouldn't be happening to anyone and so many people are affected".

 

https://twitter.com/user/status/1636002479480659968