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Differential Cardiopulmonary Hemodynamic Phenotypes in PASC Related Exercise Intolerance https://openres.ersjournals.com/content/early/2023/12/07/23120541.00714-2023 Background Post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC) affects a significant portion of patients who have previously contracted...

Not quite news, but USA-specific. There is an activist campaign pushing for a funding "moonshot", large-scale funding for Long Covid. If you're in the USA, this is a good way to raise awareness, on social media and with politicians. https://longcovidmoonshot.com/

Ironic, that what this shifted to is... the opposite. Of course they were given palliative care because AIDS leads to recognized health problems, whereas complete loss of function and disability aren't recognized health problems, and so we are offered hope without care, instead of it. Lies over...

Because I find this notable, first example I've seen yet, and it's from an immunologist.

Policy experts, scientists, disability groups urge Biden to address the Long Covid crisis https://thesicktimes.org/2023/12/18/policy-experts-scientists-disability-groups-urge-biden-to-address-the-long-covid-crisis/ In the open letter published on Monday, health policy experts, leading Long...

One of the billboard campaigns in Canada got the activist responsible interviewed on national news. Haven't watched. But for one billboard, this is one hell of a good ROI.

That's not true of the flu, which is the closest comparison. Why would it be true of COVID? This whole thing is so bizarre, and yes this has been the message for years now, along with how this target is just right around the corner, just one more infection ought to do it. And another. And...

Affect is not a skill. What ridiculous garbage.

Not dualists. Because they're trialists. And probably some more. But, hey, it can't be wrong, this stuff is found in self-help books! And in medical textbooks! And somehow the content is the exact same! How could anything be wrong when it has solid evidence like "some people are saying" and...

Searching on Google scholar for "functional disorder", over 9K+ papers from 1900-1910, over 17K in the 19th century and 16K in total for the first half of the 20th century. Somatoform has much fewer hits, but the term also began in the 19th century. Relatively new on a geological time scale? A...

Exactly. This is known as Russel's teapot, who argued that you can't prove that there isn't currently out there a teapot orbiting the Sun. The space is too vast, by the time you fully examine one place, the teapot could have moved just out of the way. It basically boils down to "you can't prove...

Ironically, this is exactly what evidence-based medicine is supposed to do, but instead it massively reinforced the old ways, essentially created an entire industry out of cheating. The new way is the old way, industrialized, elevated higher than before. The outcome is significantly worse than...

One of the sad lessons of the pandemic is that although the classic moral dilemma of sacrificing one healthy person to harvest their organs and save many is the textbook version people think about, the real moral decision is closer to letting vulnerable people die so that healthy people can go...

Includes link to the recent "Long-term outcomes following hospital admission for COVID-19 versus seasonal influenza: a cohort study" paper. Meanwhile public health and health care officials are ignoring LC entirely, so it's good to see someone on the science side pay attention to the, you know...

(Not a recommendation) How to treat long Covid — the experts on what really works https://archive.ph/qgNBQ#selection-1815.0-1815.58 For fatigue, they draw on experiences doctors have had in helping patients with ME, multiple sclerosis and Parkinson’s disease, and recommend trying to conserve...

That's the trusted Cochrane recipe! Evidence-based medicine in action.

That the post-acute phase has been entirely ignored, denied to exist for the most part or minimized into irrelevance, may play a significant role in the higher burden. Ignoring problems does not make them cause no harm. If anything, the opposite is true.

With some slides.

Hope is not a strategy. This is asinine. All this does is give cover to the health care industry for having nothing to show for it after almost 4 years of Long Covid, and decades to work this problem before, which isn't mentioned yet again. Medicine is basically engaging in a participation...

Lengthy thread about the politics of Long Covid in the Netherlands, where the health minister has been resisting doing anything for years, ignoring motions from the parliament and when he complies, slow-walking everything. Really disturbing stuff and simply not believable that biopsychosocial...