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"We found that PCC* participants with poorer sleep quality had worse cognitive performance in some domains (verbal and visual memory and processing speed), with a moderating effect on quality of life, cognitive reserve, and everyday memory failure."
"…the Nature researchers found that CO2 levels of as little as 800 ppm allow the SARS-CoV-2 virus to remain ten times more viable after forty minutes than regular CO2 levels. This happens within 2 minutes of exposure to 800 ppm of CO2.
"What is now clear is that meeting environments previously seen as somewhat risky for viral contagion are much more dangerous than was previously thought." - @ASegar
All conferences should be virtual during #COVID and #flu waves!
"I have spent my career studying infectious diseases that fall under the heading of neglected tropical diseases. Now I have a neglected disease — long Covid — an incurable (for now and for me) disease."
Every time I read these personal stories about Long Covid there is a lot that matches my own illness onset in January 1990 - chest pains, orthostatic intolerance, shortness of breath, exhaustion, etc.
I have ME/CFS (myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome), not Long Covid, but there is a tremendous amount of overlap. About half of Long Covid patients match ME/CFS criteria.
"our study shows widespread reductions in cerebral blood oxygen levels in PCS that are related to symptoms of daytime dysfunction and cognitive impairment (contd)"
"(Contd) Changes in oxygen metabolism and blood perfusion may serve as an adaptive mechanism to mediate brain vascular damage and/or as a mode of maintaining normal daily functioning."
“In a recent piece Betsy Ladyzhets [from The Sick Times] reports about problems with RECOVER based on documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. We talked the other day about her findings.”
"Ladyzhets recently wrote a new article about RECOVER, published in The Sick Times
as well as STAT, based on documents she received from NIH through the Freedom of Information Act. We spoke the other day about what she found out".
-How would you grade Biden on how he’s handled the pandemic?
-I’d give him an F. Biden’s administration has continued to promote the false idea that the vaccine is all that is needed, perpetuating the notion that the pandemic is over & you don’t need to do anything about it. Biden stopped the funding for surveillance & he stopped funding for renewing vaccine advancement research.. Biden admin policies have allowed more than 800,000 to 900,000 deaths & counting.
@inquiline This is a great interview, but jeez, I really have to choke back the vom every time somebody talks about "Most Americans," as if this was (a) a clearly defined category, (b) the only category worthy of our concern, and (c) somehow separable from the rest of the world in terms of the dynamics and consequences of what happens with public health here.
@inquiline Please stop blaming Biden for what a Republican controlled Congress is doing. Compromises are not “Biden stopping” they are Dems doing what the can under the circumstances.
Persistent symptoms & clinical findings in adults with post-acute sequelae of #COVID19 / #postCOVID19 syndrome in the second year after acute infection: population-based, nested case-control study
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"This nested population-based case-control study demonstrates the majority of PCS cases do not recover in the second year of their illness, with patterns of reported symptoms remaining essentially similar, nonspecific & dominated by fatigue, exercise intolerance & cognitive complaints”
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!
I posted this thinking nobody would read it, but it’s doing the rounds online so let’s hope it spills into real life.
(I would have added an intro if I knew but everyone’s posting it with their own.)
It’s like the powers that be were giving us crumbs and now they’ve decided it’s time for the truth to start coming out.
We don’t have leaders or doctors that even know how to deal with these problems. I don’t have any answers with the world as it is other than “wear masks“
"When stratified by variant epoch, patients with early epoch Long COVID had persistently elevated peripheral pro-inflammatory cytokine levels when compared to later epoch #LongCOVID. (contd)"
"(Contd) Patients with Long COVID have similar clusters of symptoms across epochs, suggesting that the underlying pathology is independent of the peripheral cytokine signature."
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.
@parismarx Not just evil, incredibly long term damaging to whole world. Also it should be put under crimes against humanity. But hey, what can you expect from genocide enabling government/army.
@rchusid With all the accounts being created in the summer of 2020, at least we know the Pentagon can't maintain a bot presence in any arbitrary country for future use.
Comparing risk of post infection erectile dysfunction following SARS #Coronavirus 2 stratified by acute and long #COVID, hospitalization status, and vasopressor administration
"We found that patients with #longCOVID 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"
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.
The last of the three King County sites is King County South (KCS) treatment plant, and its 7DRA is also headed sharply up. It's nearly where it was back in the January peaks, ugh. The last averaging calculation is from 6/4.