Salvatore Mattera (@SalvMattera) / X

Salvatore Mattera

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Salvatore Mattera

@SalvMattera

HelpForLongCOVID.com All opinions my own.

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Salvatore Mattera
@SalvMattera
Dec 3, 2025
When a government knowingly adopts policies that expose millions to a disabling virus, suppresses information about its dangers, refuses to mitigate spread, and abandons those already injured — the resulting deaths are not natural. They are the foreseeable outcome of deliberate
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Salvatore Mattera
@SalvMattera
Jul 13, 2024
The 1918 flu is called the "Spanish flu" because in most places, the media censored it. Except Spain, where they reported honestly. This isn't a conspiracy theory - it's a historical fact. And I think it is occurring right now again with COVID:
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Salvatore Mattera
@SalvMattera
Feb 19, 2024
Someone asked me, "if many people are gradually developing long COVID, wouldn't we see it in the economic data?" Yes, we would. And in fact we are. A few recent examples:
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Salvatore Mattera
@SalvMattera
Jan 4, 2025
How is this app free?
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Salvatore Mattera
@SalvMattera
Aug 22, 2025
Replying to @acrossthemersey
Sometimes I think about Louis Pasteur. I'm sure he was so proud of himself when he invented pasteurization. And then, fast forward 150 years, and people are intentionally avoiding his great discovery. I wonder what he would say if he could see this
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Salvatore Mattera
@SalvMattera
Aug 4, 2024
1 in 37 Americans have COVID. This means that there are ~300K ppl who have COVID right now that will develop long COVID, just as I did. This is what it's like to get long COVID as a healthy young person, and what treatments are available when you have $$ and great insurance:
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Salvatore Mattera
@SalvMattera
Nov 27, 2023
Interesting topic on Reddit r/Millennials in which seemingly hundreds of people who are not part of the long COVID community realize that they have long COVID. Some choice comments but the whole thing is worth reading:
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Salvatore Mattera
@SalvMattera
Mar 4, 2024
Someone on Reddit asks "why don't we hear more about kids with long COVID?"
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Salvatore Mattera
@SalvMattera
Oct 5, 2024
I think the vast majority of people with long COVID don't know that they have long COVID. They just have unexplained insomnia, sudden inability to drink alcohol, heart issues that their doctor tells them is "stress", and unusual fatigue that they blame on "aging".
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Salvatore Mattera
@SalvMattera
Dec 25, 2023
With COVID spiking again, I wanted to write about my experience this year dealing with a very mild form of long COVID. I hope this can be a cautionary tale for people who are still convinced that healthy "low risk" people have nothing to worry about from a COVID infection.
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Salvatore Mattera
@SalvMattera
Jul 13, 2024
Replying to @SalvMattera
This article in The New Republic - "How America’s Newspapers Covered Up a Pandemic" - provides an overview of what happened in 1918. In short, the media either avoided talking about the flu altogether, or they blamed something else for the damage the flu was causing.
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Salvatore Mattera
@SalvMattera
Dec 25, 2024
Tech bros freaking about bird flu but thinking COVID was just a cold is funny. The reason why no one will take bird flu seriously is precisely because of the "COVID is a cold" propaganda.
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Salvatore Mattera
@SalvMattera
Oct 31, 2023
After a 7 month wait, I finally got into the Stanford long COVID clinic. Here are some interesting things they told me:
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Salvatore Mattera
@SalvMattera
Jul 13, 2025
This is what I mean by lockdown delusion syndrome. The most liberal cities in the country all had their restaurants open for indoor dining in 2020. Some closed them again for periods of time when cases spiked, but there was literally no place in the country where you couldn't eat
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