"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.
“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".
> "I just worry we're going to have a generation of kids who have a post-acute infection syndrome because we failed to protect them," Dr Putrino says, "because we told this lie over and over again that kids have nothing to worry about with COVID."
"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.
[Translated: ] Less than two weeks ago, Salud confirmed to El Nuevo Día that, among the infections of this respiratory virus, a new variant called KP.2 predominated...
...currently, 184 people are hospitalized for COVID-19 in Puerto Rico, including 23 pediatric cases...