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."
They gave blood and saliva samples at home or at a nearby lab.
“The Pax LC trial is a historic contribution to the evolution of a new way of doing trials”
"Traveling to each participant’s home would seem to be a pricey endeavor. But given its greater efficiency, the design of the PAX LC Trial has actually cut down on costs", Krumholz argues.
Comment: The same issues arise with ME/CFS. I see Jarred Younger is doing one or more trials remotely
"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."
Drs “tell the parents of [#LongCovidKids], 'Just get them up and get them active' — & that's the advice that really exacerbates things." Because if a child who suffers from post-exertional malaise (PEM) is pushed beyond their capacity, they can deteriorate rapidly” #LongCovid #LCKids
“And for many people with long COVID and ME/CFS, exercise is a sure-fire way to provoke PEM [post-exertional malaise], which is why clinical guidelines in the US and UK advise doctors not to recommend it without strict supervision.”
“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".
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”
"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.