Over two thirds of first-wave Covid infections led to long Covid, finds study
"Over two-thirds of non-hospitalised patients infected with Covid in the first wave of the pandemic developed long Covid, according to a new study."
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Dreaded Side Effect Rears Its Ugly Head in Latest COVID Variant
"As many as 21 percent of Americans who caught the SARS-CoV-2 virus this summer ended up suffering from long COVID starting four weeks after infection, according to a new study from City University of New York."
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Repeat COVID is riskier than first infection, study finds
"The risk of death, hospitalization and serious health issues from COVID-19 jumps significantly with reinfection compared with a first bout with the virus, regardless of vaccination status, a study published on Thursday suggests."
Repeat COVID infections could be deadly: study
"Repeat COVID-19 infections could lead to severe health consequences, including organ failure and even death."
Covid-19 Can Stay in Body for Months, Study Finds
Major @NIH study finds COVID can quickly disseminate & infect multiple organs, including brain, & remain for months (likely, we will learn, years). Even in mild/ asymptomatic cases.
Does COVID-19 impact our ability to exercise?
Long COVID study: "muscles pulled less oxygen from the bloodstream than normal, heart rates didn’t increase in line with what is typical of exercise...researchers found this group had exercise performance of someone a decade older than their actual age."
Multiorgan impairment in low-risk individuals with post-COVID-19 syndrome: a prospective, community-based study
"In individuals at low risk of COVID-19 mortality with ongoing symptoms, 70% have impairment in one or more organs 4 months after initial COVID-19 symptoms, with implications for healthcare...which assumed low risk in young people with no comorbidities."
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Overview
Known since 2020: "The Great Invader: How COVID Attacks Every Organ"
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If you've had #COVID19, your organs might not be working the same way they did before. @zalaly , the Director of the Clinical Epidemiology Centre at Washington University, explains. #LongCOVID
Long-COVID post-viral chronic fatigue and affective symptoms are associated with oxidative damage, lowered antioxidant defenses and inflammation: a proof of concept and mechanism study
"..31.7% of the Long COVID patients had severe abnormalities in SpO2, body temperature, increased oxidative toxicity & lowered antioxidant defenses.. results suggest that post-viral somatic & mental symptoms have a neuroimmune & neuro-oxidative origin."
Can long Covid lead to death? A new analysis suggests it could
"Can long Covid lead to death? A new analysis suggests it could"
Strokes, heart attacks, sudden deaths: Does America understand the long-term risks of catching COVID?
Strokes, heart attacks, sudden deaths: Does America understand the long-term risks of catching COVID?
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.
Study suggests one in eight affected by long Covid
"1 in 8 people who get coronavirus develop at least one symptom of long Covid, one of the most comprehensive studies on the condition to date suggested."
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."