Nearly Half of Covid Patients Haven’t Fully Recovered Months Later, Study Finds
"Nearly Half of Covid Patients Haven’t Fully Recovered Months Later, Study Finds"
LitCovid
The LitCovid #LongCovid collection has just passed 10,000 articles. These are PubMed articles (not preprints) relevant to long-term symptoms caused by COVID-19, regardless of the terminology used by the author(s) to name or describe it
STEMLORD LORD OF THE STEMM on Twitter
Amazing news - paper in @Nature reporting that SARS-CoV-2 acts like a histone, thus blocking host epigenome.
Translation: DNA in our cells is packaged into chromosomes, and these are held together by histones, which are a kind of protein. Histones have to be unwrapped, then
Ebony Jade Hilton, MD on Twitter
Covering ICU this week and FYI to whomever needs to hear it: COVID attacks your brain, lungs, heart, liver, kidneys, intestines, immune system, and clogs up your blood vessels like a dirty pipe.
You don’t want it.
Wear a mask. Get Vaccinated.
R P Shah Memorial Trust for Kids & Global Health on Twitter
Long thread - 1) When the pandemic started I immediately started looking for the long term problems that people who were long haulers in the previous SARS pandemic faced , that allowed me to focus on the expected issues ctd@LongCovidKids
Hannah Davis on Twitter
Last month, the US Census released data showing that 7.5% of the entire US is currently experiencing #LongCovid for at least 3 months. That's 1 in 13 people!
If that seems high to you, here's a thread to understand how it can be true.
The L.C. Barbarian on Twitter
Listen to him. Repeat his words.
Dr Elisa Perego on Twitter
Remember: we knew covid and #LongCovid were causing coagulopathy, hypoxia, cardiac events, strokes, vascular damage, kidney damage, damage to the immune system, etc. in 2020 already. Survivors told you so Health bodies and a big part of the medical establishment chose to ignore
Ziyad Al-Aly, MD on Twitter
Excellent piece in @FT on the Longterm effects of Covid
‘This is not something that will go away in a week, in a year, or two, or three. This will reverberate with us for generations'
Thanks to @SarahNev for interviewing me & for replotting data from our @NatureMedicine paper
The growing evidence that Covid-19 is leaving people sicker
The growing evidence that Covid-19 is leaving people sicker The potential impact on heart and brain disease poses challenges to healthcare systems globally
Bruce King on Twitter
"Very few people, even at 6 months, have actually metabolically, functionally recovered.
They may have stopped coughing but they've still got a lot of other things wrong with them.” 👨🏾🔬JN, Nov’21
Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) is common in post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC): Results from a post-COVID-19 multidisciplinary clinic
A new study sadly confirms what many of us suspected and health authorities around the world willfully ignored: No less than 43% of #LongCovid sufferers may have #MECFS, a severely debilitating condition without effective treatment.
Eric Feigl-Ding on Twitter
EVERYONE STOP AND WATCH—This is what it looks like to live with #longCOVID.
“Everything tastes like dog shit” “I can’t swallow” “My hair is falling out” “My food tastes like it comes from a dumpster housing a dead raccoon🦝”
Long-term mortality following SARS-CoV-2 infection: A national cohort study from Estonia
"People infected with SARS-COV-2 had more than three times the risk of dying over the following year compared with those who remained uninfected... Short-term mortality (up to 5 weeks post-infection) was significantly higher..."
laurie allee on Twitter
Each COVID-19 Reinfection Increases Health Risks
"People who get reinfected with the virus that causes COVID-19 have more health risks with each round of reinfection, a large national database study reveals."
Covid-19 reinfections may increase the likelihood of new health problems | CNN
"Repeatedly catching Covid-19 appears to increase the chances that a person will face new and sometimes lasting health problems after their infection, according to the first study on the health risks of reinfection."
Get Ready for the Forever Plague | The Tyee
"Let’s call it a plague of willful incompetence or an outbreak of epidemiological stupidity...In any case, COVID, a novel virus that can wreak havoc with any organ in the body, continues to evolve at a furious pace."
Jonas R. Kunst on Twitter
A new study "found six distinct clusters of #LongCovid patients, each with distinct profiles of phenotypic abnormalities with enrichments in pulmonary, cardiovascular, neuropsychiatric, and constitutional symptoms such as fatigue and fever."
Post–COVID Conditions Among Adult...
Post–COVID Conditions Among Adult COVID-19 Survivors Aged 18–64 and ≥65 Years — United States, March 2020–November 2021