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Spotted the paper in a tweet by professor Kunst who comments: One of the largest population-based studies from Germany shows a high prevalence of #LongCovid also among younger adults with a history of mild acute infection. Considerably impaired general health and work capacity. Note: Pre-print...

Prevalence, determinants, and impact on general health and working capacity of post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 six to 12 month after infection: a population-based retrospective cohort study from southern Germany Peter, Kern et al https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.03.14.22272316v1...

MIT Sloan Management Review How Managers Can Support Employees With Long Covid by Fiona Lowenstein quote: Employers can start by learning about post-exertional symptom exacerbation, or post-exertional malaise (PEM), a common symptom of long COVID and related chronic illnesses. People with PEM...

Yes, I just read that. Chilling.

It's like long Covid just doesn't exist here. During the news yesterday there was a segment about a lot of children suddenly being absent from school after the pandemic. The explanation from experts was school refusal. The explanation for the school refusal was psychological problems due to...

I haven't read the study, but the news site Forskning.no had an article about it today including an interview with two of the Norwegian researchers (one who works at the Norwegian Institute for Public Health). In the news article there are so many speculations from two of the researchers that I...

The Lancet: Acute COVID-19 severity and mental health morbidity trajectories in patient populations of six nations: an observational study Magnúsdóttir et al Summary Background Long-term mental and physical health consequences of COVID-19 (long COVID) are a persistent public health concern...

It's based on their own numbers. Google translated section from the article (Sintef and Fafo are the research organisations behind the study): - Every year, an average of 1852 people are diagnosed with postviral fatigue syndrome in Norway, or ME / CFS, according to completely new calculations...

yes, the newspaper's origin was hard core communist, but today it's a general "leftish" newspaper, like the Guardian. In fact, George Monbiot used to be a regular writer for them. ETA: Or at least they regularly translated and published articles from Monbiot ETA: ... but when it comes to the...

The newspaper Klassekampen had a great interview today with two of the researchers from this project. Summary in a thread here.

New article today. This time an interview with two sociologists and researchers, Line Melby and Anne Kielland, from an ongoing research project about the health care service and ME. They say that in average 1 852 people are diagnosed with ME in Norway annually. 70% deteriorate some or a lot...

Retraction Watch mentions the retraction in its latest "Weekend reads"

Paywalled article today in The Sunday Times Long Covid: The nightmare a million of us still can't shake off

Todd Davenport confirms to Bastian's tweet. But yes, would be nice with a proper update.

The study is from January 2022, but Medscape had an article about it two days ago: Dampening Immune response May Resolve Post-COVID Breathlessness Quote: Persistent breathlessness is reported by more than 50% of patients recovering from COVID-19. Now researchers have suggested that this may be...

Immunity: Immuno-proteomic profiling reveals aberrant immune cell regulation in the airways of individuals with ongoing post-COVID-19 respiratory disease by Bavithra Vijayakumar et al Highlights Post-COVID-19 airways, but not blood, show immune and proteomic changes Different post-COVID-19...

Apparently things have been moving forward according to Hilda Bastian on Twitter: It has been moving forward: lack of progress reports does not necessarily mean lack of review progress - these involve different groups of people.

I've not seen anything about this IncellDx until yesterday when I started watching a YouTube video of an Integrative Healthcare Conference with David Brady, Dr. Bruce Patterson, Dr. Richard Horowitz, Dr. Tom Fabian and Gez Medinger shared by @Anna H in the thread "Long Covid in the media and...

(my bolding) Conclusion There is increasing, emerging evidence that children can be affected by long-term SARS-CoV-2 sequelae and post-Covid condition, although at a lower rate compared to adults. Studies show that most children recover spontaneously within the first six months, but not all...

It shares three patient experiences. One with long covid and two with ME.