Sergio Mendes, Brazilian singer, dies following long COVID battle
Mendes died on Thursday following months battling the effects of long COVID.
Mendes died on Thursday following months battling the effects of long COVID.
Living With Long COVID and Its Debilitating Symptoms
“Even mild cases of COVID-19 are linked to potential long-term repercussions — some of them deadly serious”
The Crucial Long Covid Symptoms You Need To Look Out For | HuffPost Life
“COVID-19 is a severe and multi-organ disease, which may have lasting consequences on your body even after the virus is cleared from your system.”
Newly disabled 20-somethings never properly informed by their governments about are confused and angry.
“All I was warned about is that I could die if I had comorbidities & [was] old. Had I known it could destroy my life I would have taken more precautions."
Dangerous garbage being presented “science writing”. Two *actual* facts surrounding infection:
“Your risk of #LongCOVID, a currently incurable chronic illness, after surviving an acute COVID infection currently sits conservatively at ~6-7%”
I will never stop talking about the dangers of COVID. I have been sick for four years since August of 2020 (before vaccines were even released). This is real. It is happening. People ignoring it doesn’t make them invincible.
“I will never stop talking about the dangers of COVID. I have been sick for four years since August of 2020 (before vaccines were even released). This is real. It is happening. People ignoring it doesn’t make them invincible.”
No matter how hard people pretend, Covid isn’t over
Responding to Long COVID Responsibly - Global Virus Network
“Beyond persistent symptoms, Long COVID is also associated with an increased risk for significant medical events, including major adverse cardiovascular events and new-onset diabetes mellitus.(1) For many people, Long COVID has a significant impact on their ability to work, study, take care of their families, and participate in other activities of daily living. For these reasons, Long COVID is often described as a “mass disabling event.”(2) Long COVID can also lead to financial hardship, social isolation, and mental health challenges.”
Study puts understanding of long COVID and vaccination into question | CIDRAP
“A new study from researchers at the Mayo Clinic suggests that being vaccinated against COVID-19 does little to prevent long COVID.
The findings contradict what has become conventional wisdom in the last 3 years—that vaccines offer a chance to significantly reduce the risk of long COVID, or new or persistent symptoms 3 months or more after infection, most likely by reducing the severity of infection.
Melanie Swift, MD, MPH, was the lead author of the study, which was published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases. She said despite the current thinking that vaccines reduce the risk of developing long COVID, she wasn’t surprised she found no association.”
I failed my 2nd NYS Road Test. I got confused when the tester asked me to parallel park “beside a Lexus” because we don’t parallel park *beside* cars. Once I was confused, it was all downhill from there. Something is wrong with my brain, & apparently I can’t live in the world…
‘General Hospital’ Icon Emma Samms Talks Latest Return to the Show Amid Her Battle With Long COVID (EXCLUSIVE)
“I’ve been like this now for four and a half years nearly, and it’s baffling to not just the people who have it, but it’s baffling to the doctors,” she says. “They are some very smart people who are investigating and studying it and doing research, but all they keep finding is more and more damage that COVID has done to people’s bodies.
“I got some really good scans done and they found that at some point I had had myocarditis, which has scarred my heart,” Samms continues. “The consequences of COVID — I think we still have only just scratched the surface, and it’s terrifying to me that people think we are no longer in a pandemic. Because they so desperately want it to not affect them, they sort of pretend that it is has gone, and it so hasn’t.”
As COVID Surges, the High Price of Viral Denial | The Tyee
“Repeated studies show in the bluntest terms that the initial acute infection is only the tip of the iceberg. Even a mild bout of COVID can leave a legacy of blood clots, heart failure, diabetes, decreased brain function (see sidebar), long COVID (now affecting 400 million people worldwide) and immune damage that increasingly makes people more vulnerable to a plethora of infectious diseases and possibly cancers.
These problems can erupt three years after an infection”
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Long COVID: 3-Month Follow up Results from a Prospective Registry of 232 patients
Study on hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) for Long Covid
After 3 months, 65% reported improved quality of life, especially in cognitive functions, but 15% experienced worsening symptoms.
Omission is Negligence
New Brunswick Public Health knew early on that Covid-19 infection causes long term illness, but decided not to tell anyone.
New Brunswick Public Health knew early on that Covid-19 infection causes long term illness, but decided not to tell anyone.
How much does long COVID cost society?
what is the economic impact of long COVID?
what is the economic impact of long COVID?
A Journey Through Grief: Experiences of Loss Among Patients With Long COVID - Ann Scheck McAlearney, Leanna P Eiterman, Elizabeth Mayers, Jennifer L Eramo, Sarah R MacEwan, 2024
“We aimed to improve understanding of the experiences of patients with Long COVID, focusing on emotional impacts arising from experiences of loss and grief caused by persistent physical symptoms and changes in lifestyle and social support.”
Long COVID Clinical Evaluation, Research and Impact on Society: A Global Expert Consensus
Long COVID Clinical Evaluation, Research and Impact on Society: A Global Expert Consensus
Background: Long COVID is a complex, heterogeneous syndrome affecting at least one hundred million people globally.
I'm on Tivicay (dolutegravir) and Truvada (emtricitabine/tenofivir) which I know at least one of my mutuals (HIV-) has been on for Long Covid specifically.
My Experience with Long Covid (Health Update)
Nearly half of COVID-19 survivors in Africa experiencing Long COVID symptoms, study suggests
Nearly half of COVID-19 survivors in African countries report ongoing symptoms, with fatigue being the most common.
Up to 25% of patients experience mental health issues like PTSD and anxiety, which African health systems are unprepared to address.
This video about Long COVID and ME/CFS is now trending #5 on YouTube 🇩🇪
translation/analysis thread on German Long Covid video which equates it with MECFS and calls ME “the most serious form of long covid.”
“currently it looks like an autoimmune disease where something has gone wrong with the vasculature, and both the mitochondrial dynamics and glycolytic metabolism are disturbed.
There are at least 500k patients in Germany.”
We have lived through a Covid summer – and there is new cause for concern
“We have lived through a Covid summer – and there is new cause for concern
With lives being turned upside down by sudden illness and a steady mortality rate related to the disease, Covid and its after-effects are still looming menacingly over us. Zoë Beaty talks to experts and those suffering to find out more”
Long COVID patients’ brain activation is suppressed during walking and severer symptoms lead to stronger suppression
Guangzhou, China, Long Covid was found to “suppress brain activity during walking,” with more severe initial symptoms leading to greater suppression.
Asking , from my bedroom, where I'm moored because of , why the CDC isn't recommending masking -- alongside handwashing, vaxes and testing (which they are recommending). Alt text of response from Dr. Brendan Jackson below.
“Asking @CDCgov, from my bedroom, where I'm moored because of #LongCovid, why the CDC isn't recommending masking -- alongside handwashing, vaxes and testing (which they are recommending). Alt text of response from Dr. Brendan Jackson below. 1/7”
Excellent thread:
Out of control COVID means permanent segregation for many disabled people
“Millions of people cannot afford a(nother) COVID infection. Forever waves of COVID means permanent isolation for us”
New data shows long Covid is keeping as many as 4 million people out of work
Approximately 16 million working-age Americans (aged 18 to 65) have long Covid today.
Of those, 2 to 4 million are out of work due to long Covid.
The annual cost of those lost wages alone is around $170 billion a year (potentially as high as $230 billion).
Not. The. Flu. Not. Mild. NOT. OVER.
Actually, Democrats, Covid DOES continue to rule our lives.
Findings Associated with Prolonged COVID-19 Recovery among... : Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Massachusetts study of 280 healthcare workers 3 years post-Covid: 73.4% with Long Covid reported worse quality of life, depression, anxiety, & stress.
Fear of Covid reinfection similar between groups.
Support needed.
Long COVID among healthcare workers: a narrative review of definitions, prevalence, symptoms, risk factors and impacts | British Medical Bulletin | Oxford Academic
The impact on our healthcare workforce is immense, occurring at the same time the general population needs our help more as they too are sickened and disabled by long-covid and post-covid conditions.
in a review of 56 literature studies: Long Covid is “prevalent" among Health Care workers who become infected by SARS-CoV-2
Patient-Reported Experiences of Persistent Post–COVID-19 Conditions After Hospital Discharge During the Second and Third Waves of the Pandemic in Switzerland: Cross-Sectional Questionnaire Study
“Study from Switzerland: 245 COVID-19 patients surveyed 4 months post-hospital discharge.
Only 28.2% were symptom-free.
Women and those with longer hospital stays reported more persistent symptoms.
76.4% had memory and concentration issues.
Early biological markers of post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection
UCSF study found higher early viral load and weaker antibody response in the first 9 days after COVID-19 are linked to developing Long Covid.