Long Covid/PASC (general)
The number of young people not earning or learning has also reached the highest level in a decade. "you've got to almost admire the government, their ability to ignore long COVID," she told Yahoo News. "There isn't a carpet big enough to sweep this under, but they're trying."”
researchers analyzed blood samples from 100 Long COVID patients, 60 recovered COVID cases, and 60 uninfected controls.
They identified immune and metabolic biomarkers that diagnosed Long COVID with 99% accuracy.
“The more I voiced my worries, the less they were believed. Nothing made sense.
I never thought a mild infection could affect me this badly.”
“Study of mild COVID-19 during Omicron in Japan found 35.5% had LONG COVID at 12 WEEKS. Age ≥40 yrs increased respiratory, neurological symptoms”
“Iron dysregulation linked to long COVID development”
Problems with iron levels in the blood and the body's ability to regulate this important nutrient as a result of SARS-CoV-2 infection could be a key trigger for long COVID, new research has discovered
“So I did what the journalist should have done. I went looking for some data. We all know that doctors and nurses and everyone else in healthcare are sicker now than five years ago, right? I mean, you do, don't you? That across all the massive workforce of the NHS, sickness absence rates are now 25% higher than the pre-pandemic average? Right?”