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#COVID19

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Tom Kindlon

Five years of Long Covid

Links:
NBC News
nbcnews.com/health/health-news

US News and World Report:
usnews.com/opinion/articles/20

Rolling Stone:
rollingstone.com/culture/cultu

s4me.info/threads/news-from-th

From the latest Science for ME weekly update

@longcovid
#LongCovid #PASC #PwLC #postcovid #postcovid19 #LC #Covidlonghaulers #PostCovidSyndrome #longhaulers #COVIDBrain #NeuroPASC

@covid19 #Coronavirus
#COVID19 #COVID #COVID_19 #COVIDー19 #SARSCoV2 @novid@chirp.social #novid @novid@a.gup.pe #CovidIsNotOver
@auscovid19 #auscovid19

Five years of Long Covid The five year anniversary of the start the COVID-19 pandemic has prompted several media outlets to publish stories on Long Covid. NBC News: 5 years later, long Covid is still a medical mystery: What scientists have learned US News and World Report: 5 Years Since the COVID-19 Pandemic, Millions Like Me Are Still Sick Rolling Stone: Five Years of Pain, Fatigue, and Gaslighting: Life With Long Covid More stories in this Thread
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Augie Ray

STUDY of hospitalized (HS) and non-hospitalized (NHS) #COVID19 survivors after two years:

“78% of HS and 62% of NHS reported at least one sequela symptom. Sequelae-symptoms, neurological outcomes, restrictive spirometry findings, and electrocardiogram abnormalities remained unchanged, although psychiatric sequelae, quality of life, and exercise capacity improved in both groups. Two or more vaccine doses decreased the risk of respiratory and psychiatric sequelae.”

jogh.org/2025/jogh-15-04075

JOGH · Evolution of long COVID over two years in hospitalised and non-hospitalised survivors in Bangladesh: a longitudinal cohort study — JOGHPost-COVID syndrome, or long COVID, refers to the long-term health consequences of COVID-19 that can persist for months or even years after recovering from the acute infection [1,2]. Despite a significant decline in COVID-19 cases and the disease no longer being a global health emergency, new cases are still being reported. Between 4–31 March 2024, […]
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Wolfgang Hagen

Laut einer aktuellen Studie gingen in den 18 angeschauten europäischen Ländern von 2020 bis 2022 durch die #COVID19 Pandemie insgesamt 17 Millionen Lebensjahre verloren.
In Ö waren es 350.000 Lebensjahre, in D 2.350.000.

Es könnte sein, dass nicht nur Menschen starben, die "sowieso nur mehr kurz zu leben hatten".

journals.plos.org/plosmedicine

journals.plos.orgDirect and indirect impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on life expectancy and person-years of life lost with and without disability: A systematic analysis for 18 European countries, 2020–2022Sara Ahmadi-Abhari and colleagues explore the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic might have had on life expectancy and years of life lost, with and without disability, in 18 European countries. They hope that this will help to inform future work in the area of public health preparedness.
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Augie Ray

"Omicron is milder."

STUDY of people infected with Omicron #COVID19 finds:

The odds of long COVID increased with reinfections: 2.592x higher for one reinfection and 6.171x higher for two or more.

7.8% experienced long COVID within one year, with 5.1% having persistent symptoms.

People w/ persistent long COVID had lower muscle strength, worse exercise capacity, poorer HRQoL, significantly higher proportions of abnormal lung function and lung imaging abnormalities.

thelancet.com/journals/lanwpc/

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Mat Wright

so, Island Health has apparently been trying to contact us for urgent tests, but Gmail is flagging emails from them as Spam and Suspicious - go figure that tech is against public health

Never heard of paravirus 'parainfluenza' - but that is what we have, and they want more from us.... and a good friend who is an infectious disease NP is like WTAF!!!

@hannu_ikonen

#BCpoli#Covid#Covid19
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JADe (he, him)

Today is international #LongCovid Awareness Day

Check this canadian interview with a Mount Sinai (NY) chronic disease specialist. Up to one in five people with COVID-19 develop LONG COVID, meaning three months after having the disease they still do not recover their full abilities.

The specialist affirms that each reinfection, even moderate, of COVID-19 subtracts between 2-6% of IQ.

LONG COVID is a disease that causes systemic damage, especially to the immune system, causing T-cell exhaustion and triggering latent diseases or exposing the body to new pathogens from which it would have been able to defend itself before. Worth a listen:

cbc.ca/player/play/audio/9.668

#CovidLong #COVID19 #CovidIsNotOver #COVIDisAirborne
#CovidIsntOver
#ImmuneSystem #ImmuneDysfunction
#autoimmune #TCell
#chronicillness
#ChronicIllnesses

Illustration of a Long Covid awareness ribbon next to this message "Today is International Long COVID Awareness Day! March 15"
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Mat Wright

Wife is entering week 4, I'm in week 3 of an 'unknown' virus that truly feels like a combination of noro and Covid. Reduced lung function, no appetite, incredible fatigue

She was tested for everything at ER with no conclusion. Now friends reporting they have this and are cancelling Spring Break trips.

Stay masked, stay safe - public health is asleep

#Covid#Covid19#Flu
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k

Thanks everyone who boosted my #FarUVC workshop on here!!!

Workshop was so rad 🥲 I'm so grateful for the spaces like this that we create for learning together!

I will be presenting again next month, probably on a weeknight, for those who couldn't make it today.

You can sign up for updates and give time/day preferences here: skillshares.fan-club.cc/

Apologies for confusion with my barebones flyer also! I am in the eastern time zone and my workshops are usually virtual. If I do them irl they'll probably be in/around Massachusetts 💛

***I am also open to presenting to yr group/org/etc - I have an additional workshop on safe(r) shows and events that I've presented 4(ish?) times I addition to this far-uvc workshop.

This is all free, low key, interactive.

Let's keep expanding our knowledge and gathering together more safely!

#CovidSaferEvents #COVID19 #MutualAid #CleanTheAir #Fan-Club #MaskBlocs

skillshares.fan-club.ccFAN-CLUB
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Augie Ray

I had to unfollow an account that I used to trust for #COVID19 info. It said the current level of COVID in wastewater is “unprecedented.”

COVID is bad enough without inflating risks. No one will listen to us when COVID risks are high if we say silly things like this when COVID is actually low (in aggregate) in the US.

I get it. COVID risks never disappear, but the accounts addicted to spreading fear rather than knowledge need to be rejected, IMO.

Chart of COVID in US wastewater, showing that COVID has been lower than current levels four times (around 50 weeks) in the past 35 months.
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Eric's Risk Assessment

Ensitrelvir Prevents #COVID19 Infection as Post Exposure Prophylaxis

> Japan-based Shionogi presented results for its investigational antiviral, ensitrelvir, that demonstrated a 67% reduction in the risk of developing COVID-19 in uninfected individuals treated after exposure, compared to a placebo at day 10

contagionlive.com/view/ensitre

ContagionLive · Ensitrelvir Prevents COVID-19 Infection as Post Exposure ProphylaxisBy John Parkinson
#sars2#sarscov2#antiviral
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jdm2 🇵🇷

This week, #Barbados’s Prime Minister Mia Mottley gave a fiery address to parliament, calling the US stance “unfair and unjustified”.

“We could not get through the pandemic without the Cuban nurses and the Cuban doctors,” she said.

Trinidad and Tobago’s prime minister, Keith Rowley, warned that US interference in #Caribbean healthcare decisions was unacceptable.

#Cuba#USPol#Covid19
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jdm2 🇵🇷

Caribbean leaders have hit back at a threat issued by the United States government to cancel visas for anyone working with or supporting Cuban medical facilities, citing allegations of forced labour and claiming these missions “enrich the Cuban regime”.

Cuban medical missions, which provide doctors, nurses and other medical staff as well as medical facilities, are critical to healthcare systems in the Caribbean.

aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/15/w

Al Jazeera · Why are Caribbean leaders fighting Trump to keep Cuban doctors?By Farah Najjar
#Caribbean#Covid19#USPol
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Mike Honey

Here's the latest variant picture for Canada. Samples have not been shared from Ontario since mid-February, leading to the typical chaotic picture when sample volumes are low.

There’s been a dramatic recent rise in the JN.1.* + FLiRT lineages, possibly rising to dominance.

#COVID19 #Canada #XEC #LP_8_1
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