Opinion piece asking why we overlook bad things, "especially in this scientific and technological age, when we’ve never been more capable of understanding and addressing them".
The Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development has published a paper, The impacts of #longCOVID across OECD countries, which looks the burden of Long #Covid including how it may impact productivity & the labour force.
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"The economic and social welfare costs of #longCOVID are dramatic: Even excluding the direct costs of health care, long #COVID is likely costing OECD countries as much as $864 billion - $1.04 trillion USD per year due to reductions in quality of life and labour force participation."
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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."
"Long Covid and similar energy-limiting illnesses cause a range of health problems which result in long-term sickness absence and long-term unemployment in an era of workforce shortage."
"(Contd) The variability of the condition and of employer attitudes, severity of impact on daily life and work, and the fluctuating nature of the condition pose the question of how to manage a sustained return to work."
"Utilizing our novel metabolic modeling method, GPMM [Genome-wide knockout analyses], we identified the key metabolic irregularities in patients with ME/CFS and Long COVID, notably the downregulation of the alanine and aspartate metabolism pathway, and the arginine and proline metabolism pathway."
"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."
"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."
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"Participants described tracking health trajectories using wearables and other assistive devices including apps, [t]rackers and wireless activity and heart rate monitors to identify potential triggers and learn limits to inform strategies of pacing"
"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"
@SnerkRabbledauber@auscovid19@covid19@longcovid@novid@tomkindlon I hope you were this diligent about sources when you were told to take an experimental mystery injection a few years ago, if so, for sure you said no to it given the huge amount of horrible possible side effects that are listed directly by the manufacturer
Please don't bother sharing any more propagandized information.
What do I mean by 'propagandized'? Well for one thing, the language (see 'rebranded flu') shows its purpose is not to describe, but rather to persuade.
But even more importantly it does not present information in a useful form.
Lists like this are useless without numbers. "Associated with" is a very, very broad term. Something that can occur in one out of a million cases can be said to be "associated with". Why don't you include car accidents on the list? Certainly at least one person that received a vaccination was also in a car accident, right? You could probably include shark attacks, and death by electrocution as well.
See the problem? Without numbers, this list is useless.
"Complex, infection-associated chronic conditions affecting multiple body systems are not new, and Long COVID shares many features with such conditions as [ME/CFS], #fibromyalgia, and [#POTS ]. Current theories about the pathophysiology of these conditions include immune dysregulation, neurological disturbances, cardiovascular damage, gastrointestinal dysfunction, metabolic issues, and mitochondrial dysfunction."
Extract from comments by Dr Binita Kane in this popular Guardian article today:
"‘I could bench-press 100kg. Now, I can’t walk’: Lucy’s life with #longCovid ."
"Before the pandemic, Lucy Keighley ran a gym, worked as a personal trainer and went on gruelling, exhilarating runs. But after three and a half years of illness, she isn’t sure she will ever recover"
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This thorough Guardian article tells the story of Lucy Keighley and also presents a typical Long Covid patient story based on responses the Guardian has received from readers.
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"Remarkably, IgG transfer from the two subgroups, which are characterized by higher plasma levels of neuronal proteins and leukocyte activation markers, induced pronounced and persistent sensory hypersensitivity with distinct kinetics. Conversely, IgG transfer from the third subgroup, which are characterized by enriched skeletal and cardiac muscle proteome profiles, reduced locomotor activity in mice without affecting their motor coordination"
"(Contd) In line with this assumed chronicity, 85% of patients reporting complaints two months after COVID-19 still reported symptoms one year after their symptom onset"
"we applied the advanced imaging technique [Diffusion Microstructure Imaging] to uncover microstructural changes after #COVID19 infection, with the observation of different patterns in a cohort of patients with and without PCC [Post-COVID-condition]"