Coronavirus

Long COVID is devastating and far from rare. As infections rise again, why are we still ignoring it?

@hightor,

Thought I had long Covid. My primary care doctors and two ER visits couldn't find anything specific in 16 months, with a six month respite that ended last November, except I had some sort of infection.

Three weeks ago I was finally turned over to an infectious disease specialist and after two days in the hospital and extensive and intensive testing finally found the 'problem': Brucellosis.

I'm on a months course of antibiotics with the potential of perhaps up to a year to cure it. Covid still scares me more. We've gotten all the masks out ready to go. Covid seems to be coming back.

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@bobsal u1553115,

I am currently in a rehabilitation clinic after my prostate surgery.
Here you have to wear the mask in the lifts, in the corridors to the various therapies and consulting rooms and in all rooms. Many people don't do that - normally it's also unusual.

There has now been a case of Covid. This patient was upset that the masks were not clearly indicated.
Without wearing a mask himself.

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@Walter Hinteler,

Sounds about right!

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@Walter Hinteler,

The VA system (where I go for my treatment) is about half masked.

In my mind this is unmasked. There are areas where masking is mandatory, and even there, I saw employees with noses unmasked. The plastic guards at desks are still up.

My wife and I have started wearing masks in the grocery stores, hospital and clinic, and are avoiding unnecessary crowds such as restaurants.

And we will be taking the new boosters as they are released, as we have been doing all along. We humans can get so complacent so easily.

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Would you rather have it in the left arm or the right? The question that doctors must have asked millions of times during the Covid vaccination campaign is apparently not as easy to answer as it first sounds. According to a study, it might make sense to use the same arm for the second and third vaccination as for the first.

A research group led by Laura Ziegler from Saarland University found evidence that multiple vaccinations might work better if they are administered in the same arm. Their work was published in the journal "eBioMedicine".

Differences in SARS-CoV-2 specific humoral and cellular immune responses after contralateral and ipsilateral COVID-19 vaccination

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@Walter Hinteler,

interesting.

i think most people get it in their non-dominant arm...

R(i know i do)P

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The infection was months ago, but diabetes, heart disease and Alzheimer's are on the rise: according to a recent study, Covid-19 apparently promotes numerous health problems - even in mild courses.

A recent study shows once again how persistent the coronavirus can apparently be. According to the study, the risk of health problems is increased even two years after the actual infection. This is especially true if those affected were seriously ill with Covid-19 and had to be hospitalised. But even after milder losses, certain complaints occurred more frequently, a research team reports in the current issue of the journal Nature Medicine.

Postacute sequelae of COVID-19 at 2 years

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Abstract

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection can lead to postacute sequelae in multiple organ systems, but evidence is mostly limited to the first year postinfection. We built a cohort of 138,818 individuals with SARS-CoV-2 infection and 5,985,227 noninfected control group from the US Department of Veterans Affairs and followed them for 2 years to estimate the risks of death and 80 prespecified postacute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC) according to care setting during the acute phase of infection. The increased risk of death was not significant beyond 6 months after infection among nonhospitalized but remained significantly elevated through the 2 years in hospitalized individuals. Within the 80 prespecified sequelae, 69% and 35% of them became not significant at 2 years after infection among nonhospitalized and hospitalized individuals, respectively. Cumulatively at 2 years, PASC contributed 80.4 (95% confidence interval (CI): 71.6–89.6) and 642.8 (95% CI: 596.9–689.3) disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) per 1,000 persons among nonhospitalized and hospitalized individuals; 25.3% (18.9–31.0%) and 21.3% (18.2–24.5%) of the cumulative 2-year DALYs in nonhospitalized and hospitalized were from the second year. In sum, while risks of many sequelae declined 2 years after infection, the substantial cumulative burden of health loss due to PASC calls for attention to the care needs of people with long-term health effects due to SARS-CoV-2 infection.

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Coronavirus FAQs:
How worrisome is the new variant? How long do boosters last?
(npr)

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@Region Philbis,

More importantly, the first batch most certainly weren't "safe and effective", and how could "science" predict how a virus will mutate?

A booster for a product that failed to deliver, won't offer any protection from a variant that hasn't been detected yet.

Marketing ploys are failing to work on most Australians who fell for them the first time around.

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@Builder,

Good for you builder, warn those Aussies about the danger of Doctors who went to medical schools. It's all a big plot by liberal elites trying to fool all those decent white folks out there. I'm so happy at least one person wasn't fooled.

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@glitterbag,

Oh, you mean the thousands of doctors who knew it was the first time a medical treatment was being used on the general public without thorough double blind testing?

All those professionals who decided their health was much more important than being part of an experiment?

We marched alongside those professionals in protest marches, and supported their decisions to not be fooled by propaganda, like you've swallowed without question, glitter.

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@Builder,

More conspiracy horseshit from someone who worships David Icke.

Just accept that very few people are stupid enough to believe your crap.

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@izzythepush,

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Just accept that....

I can't completely block your inanity.

Any suggestions?

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@Builder,

Try some orignial vocabulary for once and check yourself into shady brain farm.

Your delusions harm others.

It's just pathetic attention seeking.

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