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

"But otherwise, the Holding Back The Years singer seemed in great health as he performed to a packed crowd at London’s O2 Arena on Wednesday night."

These articles end on a positive spin 11 out of 10 times.

 

Anyone who meets me thinks I seem in great health, including doctors. I bet he had a bit of a rest before and after that concert.

 

Barack Obama (positive for Omicron)

https://twitter.com/user/status/1503092299173089288


Hailey Beiber cerebral thrombosis (+ Justin Bieber Covid-positive)

 

Camilla Duchess of Cornwall has not yet recovered from a fairly recent covid infection.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/roya...of-cornwall-long-covid-royal-family-latest-vn

Presented without further comment from the article:

"We forget that Camilla is actually 74...
She's got long Covid, it's pretty bad actually and standing on your heels all day.
Poor Camilla, she doesn't have room to fall apart because it's a relentless schedule and it's a reminder of how hard the Queen has been working all these years."

 

Dr Ranj was on BBC Live today. He is still struggling with brainfog.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1505849459908960259


https://twitter.com/user/status/1506237324090298370

 

Jonathan Davis from Korn says he has Long Covid

https://www.spin.com/2022/03/korn-jonathan-davis-covid-lipps-service/

“I’m still fatigued like crazy,” Davis said. “I’m doing the best I can. But I’m alive. And hopefully, in time, this will get better.”

 

Stephen Wilhite: Creator of the GIF dies from Covid-19 at age 74

https://canadanews.fr/stephen-wilhite-creator-of-the-gif-dies-from-covid-19-at-age-74/

 

Dizziness and difficulty walking (and generally standing) are common in LC, could explain the fall. It's a good thing that many people with dysautonomia choose to stop driving or doing some similarly dangerous things on their own but this is a good example of how the obsession with "it's not deadly, nothing to worry about" fails massively.

It's surprisingly easy to cause massive injury from a simple fall, even as a healthy adult. People who have killed another from a single punch have learned that lesson very harshly, it's the sudden stop at the end that gets you.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1506810532728348672

 

Bob Saget's case really made me aware that if you fall and hit your head, get it checked out, even if you feel fine. Better safe than sorry.

 

What's worse is, given a hypothetical scenario here, he probably wouldn't notice the symptoms of the hit to the head if LC symptoms are severe enough. Permanent headaches are common, basically all the symptoms of a concussion are common with LC, and ME, there's no way for someone who's living with those for even just a few days to tell the difference. When you're used to feeling like death, dying feels like nothing unusual.

Hence making the algorithm of "common symptoms of illness = no disease" especially self-defeating. It's like symptoms don't count unless they're unique snowflakes. So weird.

 

Absolutely. A good friend of mines mother visited from Russia back in the mid 80s and hit her head on the ice while skating. She died suddenly 2 days later from the fall.

 

Moved from the Long covid in the media and social media thread


Short interview with a pro hockey player for the Vancouver Canucks, who has ben out the whole season with Long Covid. Seems mostly to have significant shortness of breath.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1519158153832665088

 

Dave Navarro—LC

https://www.nme.com/news/music/dave-navarro-has-been-sick-with-long-covid-since-december-3236142

 

Messi


Lionel Messi reveals his behind-the-scenes Covid-19 struggle


https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/30/football/lionel-messi-covid-struggles-psg-spt-intl/index.html

 

https://twitter.com/user/status/1534610951030325251

 

Hasn't been framed as a post-Covid phenomenon, but Justin Bieber has Ramsay-Hunt syndrome four months post Covid infection. See thread posted by @Mij. (Also previous Lyme).

 

Germany's foreign minister, following infection 6-7 weeks ago (so very early). Translated from this article.

Baerbock's corona shock: She barely manages to walk more than two floors
Annalena Baerbock is still struggling with the aftermath of her corona infection. The Foreign Minister fell ill at the beginning of June. Now she says: "It really knocked me down, despite quadruple vaccination.

Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock still suffers from the consequences of her recent corona disease. "I can hardly walk more than two floors now," said the 41-year-old in an interview with the "Stern." "It really stretched me down, despite quadruple vaccination. I lay flat for two weeks."