NIH Director Monica Bertagnolli ( @NIHDirector ) comments last week at the NIH ACD (Advisory Committee to the Director) Meeting on Long COVID & RECOVER
"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."
"The aim of this meta-analysis is to describe objective cognitive impairment in individuals with non-severe (mild or moderate) #SARSCoV2 cases in the post-acute stage of infection”
"Significantly increased Cho concentrations & decreased NAA/Cho were found in the CCS in the older #postCOVID19 subjects"
"may be related to the microstructural reorganization in the corpus callosum (also reported in diffusion measurements) rather than increased membrane turnover"
It's so good to see a televised broadcast with a #scientist confirming that each #covid infection will increase the risk of long-term effects, typically #longcovid but not just that. It is exhausting to people like me who are #masking very much because we know that IN THE FLESH, and we don't see anything or anyone anywhere validating our experience: not out of solidarity but as a scientific truth? I have to justify myself EVERY DAY 😷.! @longcovid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heT5myyBkNA
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"SARS-CoV-2 provokes persistent long-term brain metabolic changes on brain FDG PET in the selected population of patients with prolonged long COVID symptoms, without progressive worsening of the hypometabolisms."
"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."
"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."
“Although studies have suggested many patients with long #COVID experience mental health challenges, we did not find that depressive symptoms prior to #SARSCoV2 infection were a major risk factor for long COVID”
111,816 children in England & Scotland are estimated to have Long Covid. Toby & his family describe the harsh reality & impact of this disease. Dr Binita Kane says the NHS is not keeping up with the massive challenge Long #Covid represents. The article also mentions reinfection as an elephant in the room.
what the fuck do we do. theyve destroyed communication in gaza. they keep bombing. we don't even know how bad it is. if it was that bad when the world was watching. Jesus.
"But if the plight of adults with long COVID remains poorly understood, the millions of children who have it worldwide are practically invisible, their suffering — and the formative years they're losing to this disease — obscured by the myths that COVID is "harmless" for kids and the pandemic is "over".