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https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/debilitating-a-generation-expert-warns-that-long-covid-may-eventually-affect-most-americans

‘The economy was sad so those in power slowly disabled and killed 8 billion people. That was the extinction of Homo Sapien Sapiens.’

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People need to read this article and insist that governments do something about this, people should not have to suffer for years

samohTmaS ,

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Lynn Parramore's commends are spot on. Excellent !!

The referenced National Academy paper, as with most of their papers is hamstrung by the narrow charge they were given. ALL Academy papers suffer severely from this.

They were narrowly charged with long COVID. That is needed, but way overly narrow. They are disallowed from exceeding their charge even a little.

Further, it is very much based on economics and production, not on people's health!

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Plasma taurine level is linked to symptom burden & clinical outcomes in condition

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0304522

"Increase in taurine levels during the transition to convalescence were associated with a reduction in adverse events independent of comorbidities & acute severity"

Hospitalised patients.

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New-ish US [Mayo Clinic] study:

Pro Inflammatory Cytokines Profiles of Patients With Long Differ Between Variant Epochs

Free:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/21501319241254751

"When stratified by variant epoch, patients with early epoch Long COVID had persistently elevated peripheral pro-inflammatory cytokine levels when compared to later epoch . (contd)"

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"(Contd) Patients with Long COVID have similar clusters of symptoms across epochs, suggesting that the underlying pathology is independent of the peripheral cytokine signature."

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PhoenixSerenity , to random
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Mom was discharged, after she was stabilized, post day surgery/liver biopsy. She's going to rest in bed for rest of day when we get home. No strenuous physical activity for one week.

I had to ask almost all hospital medical staff, working with us today, to please put their masks on before coming near us. My handmarked mask helped with having no pushback on my mandatory mask-up request. Everyone I asked, stared at it, before grabbing masks & putting them on.

Selfie with me & Mom. She's in hospital bed, covered in blankets & has white face mask on. I'm in left corner wearing white face mask with marker text that reads: Covid Killed My Dad
Selfie with Mom - reflected off half orb mirror on ceiling. She's in hospital bed behind me. Two other unidentifiable patients are on hospital beds. I'm standing in hallway with my cane. Fisheye view.
Side profile selfie in taxi. Wearing a leather & felt hat & white mask with pink/black text that reads: Covid Killed My Dad.

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They should all mask up in hospitals. For everyone's safety, including their own.

In our several hours at today, I saw over 50 completely incapacitated/unconscious very elderly patients - wheeled in/out of surgery rooms by people with no masks on. They had no choice to protect their own health by staff who should know better. ATM - Hospitals, & their many unmasked staff, are playing Russian Roulette, on patients who cannot speak or advocate for themselves.

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Pentagon put out anti-vaccine misinformation starting in 2020 as part of anti-China efforts.

https://www.reuters.com/world/pentagon-ran-secret-anti-vax-campaign-undermine-china-during-pandemic-2024-06-14/

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If the US wants the world to think it’s the good guy, maybe it shouldn’t be running anti-vax campaigns in the middle of global pandemic that put its geopolitical standing above people’s lives. This is evil behavior.

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-covid-propaganda/

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•First network meta-analysis of oral antiviral drugs effects on condition ( )

•Early use of oral antiviral drugs in acute phase of has a protective effect against PCC

•Nirmatrelvir-ritonavir may be a superior choice over molnupiravir on reducing risk of PCC

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"Nine observational studies containing 866,066 patients were included, in which nirmatrelvir-ritonavir and molnupiravir were evaluated in eight and two studies respectively, with both drugs evaluated in one study. Pair-wise meta-analysis showed that early oral antiviral drugs reduced PCC risk (RR 0.77, 95% CI 0.68–0.88)."

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‪Early use of oral antiviral drugs and the risk of post COVID-19 syndrome: a systematic review and network meta-analysis‬

https://www.journalofinfection.com/article/S0163-4453(24)00124-5/fulltext‬

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From the Netherlands

Whole blood transcriptome in long patients reveals association with lung function and immune response

https://www.jacionline.org/article/S0091-6749(24)00566-9/fulltext

"In this study we clustered the transcriptome of patients into two distinct clusters & showed differences in innate and adaptive immune activation and pulmonary function between those clusters"

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A Holistic Analysis of Symptom Profiles among People with -19 in India: A Prospective 1-Year Follow-Up Study

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213398424001490

"Out of 350 [hospitalised] participants, 148 respondents (42.3%) recovered after 1 year of illness and 202 (57.7%) were still experiencing symptoms at the time of survey completion."

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tomkindlon , to longcovid group
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Comparing risk of post infection erectile dysfunction following SARS 2 stratified by acute and long , hospitalization status, and vasopressor administration

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41443-024-00913-7

"We found that patients with are at a higher risk of being diagnosed with ED than patients with only acute COVID, while there was no significantly increased risk for patients with more severe infection requiring hospitalization or vasopressors"

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luckytran , to random
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COVID is not over. Scientists are worried about bird flu. We need to be ready for the next pandemic. Right now we need to depoliticize and normalize mask-wearing. North Carolina’s anti-mask bill recklessly does the exact opposite.

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I wonder how many Americans will fly off into the great beyond if mismanages a bird flu pandemic like he did the pandemic? Will he tell us that eating bird seed will prevent it? Or maybe we should be injecting sugar water while humming about how great Trump is?

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Hi folks, it’s the weekly (that is, and environs) poop toots.

With this week's data, we're seeing plenty of Covid at all three county sites. Let's start with the West Point (WSPT) sewage treatment plant: the Sars-CoV-2 7-day rolling average more than doubled since last week. The last 7DRA number was calculated on 6/4.

WSPT is one of three King County(-ish) sewersheds in this dataset. You can find overviews, individual sewershed results, and a breakdown of variants for the state wastewater surveillance program, along with other metrics like case counts and hospitalizations for Covid-19 and other respiratory illnesses, at https://doh.wa.gov/data-and-statistical-reports/diseases-and-chronic-conditions/communicable-disease-surveillance-data/respiratory-illness-data-dashboard#WasteWater. If you go to the page and click "learn more" in the statewide view tab, you can find out lots of details about how these data are calculated and how to interpret them. The dashboard gets updated every Wednesday (generally).

Note: when the state switched over to new data providers in September, they also removed the previous historical data from the graphical interface. That's because the two providers used different methodologies that made direct comparisons difficult. Unfortunately, it also removed valuable context for interpreting the results. So, keep in mind we're just seeing what happened in September 2023 until now.

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"(Contd) While pacing was an essential skill for many, it was a constant balancing act , that also came at a cost on their productivity, satisfaction, and overall feelings of fulfillment"

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"A notable feature of episodic disability in the context of Long COVID in this study was PESE or PEM which transcended physical, cognitive and mental-emotional dimensions, highlighting the ability of the framework to encompass critical features of disability experienced in the context of "

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Cases of whooping cough, also known as pertussis, are rapidly rising in UK, France, USA, Spain, and .

Mounting evidence shows that infections can create lasting differences in some people’s immune systems leaving them more susceptible to other diseases.
Whooping cough is one of the most infectious diseases in the world with a reproductive number of 12-17… similar to measles.


https://www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/news/whooping-cough-cases-reported-at-northumberland-schools/article_7c2e5073-0812-564d-9248-8f9bb43d1964.html

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    "Frequencies of new onset symptoms (in )

    Among participants with , the most common symptoms were post-exertional malaise (87%), fatigue (85%), brain fog (64%), dizziness or lightheadedness (62%), GI (59%), & palpitations (57%)."

    From pp.46

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    "National Academies Issue New Broad Definition of Long COVID"

    On the Medscape website widely used by healthcare professionals

    https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/national-academies-issue-new-broad-definition-long-covid-2024a1000ayc (may require free registration)

    Includes a statement from Drs Lucinda Bateman & Brayden Yellman

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