"We report on a patient suffering from fatigue, post exertional malaise, pain & neurological symptoms as a consequence of the second #CoVID infection. Using live confocal microscopy on native whole blood samples we detected microaggregates of thrombocytes, leukocytes and plasma proteins in peripheral blood”
-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.
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!
"Increase in taurine levels during the transition to convalescence were associated with a reduction in adverse events independent of comorbidities & acute #COVID19 severity"
"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."
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.
They should all mask up in hospitals. For everyone's safety, including their own.
In our several hours at #RoyalJubileeHospital 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.
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.
"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)."
"In this study we clustered the transcriptome of #longCOVID patients into two distinct clusters & showed differences in innate and adaptive immune activation and pulmonary function between those clusters"
"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."
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"
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.
I wonder how many Americans will fly off into the great beyond if #Trump mismanages a bird flu pandemic like he did the #Covid 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?
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.
"(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"
"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 #LongCOVID"
"There have been 5230 new cases of Covid-19 reported in New Zealand over the week to Sunday, and 20 further deaths attributed to the virus." "It comes just weeks after Covid cases spiked to their highest level in 18 months"
The CDC recommends people 65 and over get a Spring redundant dose of that year's Fall #COVID vaccine.
21 days of "consistently high concentrations" of SARS-CoV-2 detected in wastewater samples "some of the highest" ever measured.
"Fewer people are also getting the latest vaccines: Just 14% of California's population has received an up-to-date dose, CDPH data shows, indicating that there's less immunity overall."