covid 19

Highlights • Persistent symptoms were greater following the first SARS-CoV-2 infection. • The most frequent persistent symptoms were fatigue, tiredness and shortness of breath. • Proportion of persistent symptoms varied by variant of infection. • A reduction of persistent symptoms after COVID-19...

The life-saving benefit of dexamethasone in severe COVID-19 is linked to a reversal of monocyte dysregulation Rainer Knoll; Elisa T. Helbig; Kilian Dahm; Olufemi Bolaji; Frederik Hamm; Oliver Dietrich; Martina van Uelft; Sophie Müller; Lorenzo Bonaguro; Jonas Schulte-Schrepping; Lev Petrov...

Abstract Purpose The COVID-19 pandemic has had an enormous negative impact on the psychosomatic status of the general population, and especially of more vulnerable populations, such as older people. The present study aimed to assess changes in psychosomatic status before and after the COVID-19...

Tocilizumab Reduces Hypercoagulation in COVID-19 - Perspectives from The Coagulation and Immunomodulation Covid Assessment Coag-ImmCovA Clinical Trial. Lou M Almskog; Anna Sjostrom; Jonas Sunden-Cullberg; Apostolos Taxiarchis; Anna Agren; Sara Freyland; Madeleine Borjesson; Agneta Wikman; Carl...

Substack article by Christine Pagel Link to Substack post Guest post: A terrible academic paper has fueled renewed anti-vax journalism - it must be retracted A debunk and a plea for retraction from actuary Stuart McDonald _____________________________ The BMJ article criticised here is...

In communities of color, long-covid patients are tired of being sick and neglected Regular link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/05/28/long-covid-patients-of-color-black-latino/ Gift link (no paywall for 2 weeks): https://wapo.st/3wSGcYO Further down in the article there's a quote...

An episode from Ground Truths, a podcast by Eric Topol: Svetlana Blitshteyn: On the Front Line With Long Covid and POTS https://erictopol.substack.com/p/svetlana-blitshteyn-on-the-front Episode is about 53 minutes long. Transcript included.

https://www.journalofinfection.com/article/S0163-4453(24)00117-8/fulltext Highlights Our study included 892,312 patients with COVID-19 across 173 studies spanning over 50 countries. It revealed a substantial prevalence of MDRO infection (42.1%) in COVID-19 patients, and a notable overall...

I have just listened to a very interesting radio program 'BBC Inside Science: Biology of the new coronavirus'. I don't know whether it's available outside the UK. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000g3gf I suggest we use this thread to share any articles, audio or video of Virologists...

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2817869 Key Points Question What is the association of COVID-19 with long-term outcomes in taste and smell function as measured by state-of-the-art psychophysical tests? Findings In this cross-sectional study of 340 individuals...

Full title: Investigation into the restoration of TRPM3 ion channel activity in post COVID-19 condition: a potential pharmacotherapeutic target Recently, we reported that post COVID-19 condition patients also have Transient Receptor Potential Melastatin 3 (TRPM3) ion channel dysfunction, a...

Protecting yourself from COVID-19 these days is hard. And it comes at a cost. https://www.marketplace.org/2024/03/20/protecting-yourself-from-covid-19-these-days-is-hard-and-it-comes-at-a-cost/

Beyond “Psychotropic”: Repurposing Psychiatric Drugs for COVID-19, Alzheimer’s Disease, and Cancer https://www.psychiatrist.com/jcp/beyond-psychotropic-repurposing-psychiatric-drugs-covid-19-alzheimer-disease-cancer/ Importance: “Psychotropic” drugs have widespread reach and impact throughout...

Fear of COVID fades even as virus remains a ‘significant threat,’ survey reveals https://www.sfchronicle.com/health/article/survey-covid-fear-fades-even-virus-remains-18940241.php

The role of COVID-19 vaccines in preventing post-COVID-19 thromboembolic and cardiovascular complications Núria Mercadé-Besora; Xintong Li; Raivo Kolde; Nhung TH Trinh; Maria T Sanchez-Santos; Wai Yi Man; Elena Roel; Carlen Reyes; Antonella Delmestri; Hedvig M E Nordeng; Anneli Uusküla; Talita...

Rampant COVID Poses New Challenges in the Fifth Year of the Pandemic “We’re still in a pandemic,” says a lead COVID official with the World Health Organization https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rampant-covid-poses-new-challenges-in-the-fifth-year-of-the-pandemic/ (some extra line...

Para-infectious brain injury in COVID-19 persists at follow-up despite attenuated cytokine and autoantibody responses Abstract To understand neurological complications of COVID-19 better both acutely and for recovery, we measured markers of brain injury, inflammatory mediators, and...

Over the past year there have been some social media posts relating to how COVID-19 impacts pregnancy and can cause birth defects This thread from X , pulls some research references together on it. It's not looking good . I don't know when people generally will wake up

Long-term outcomes following hospital admission for COVID-19 versus seasonal influenza: a cohort study Yan Xie; Taeyoung Choi; Ziyad Al-Aly Background Previous comparative analyses of people admitted to hospital for COVID-19 versus influenza evaluated the risk of death, hospital readmission...

Blood-brain barrier breakdown in COVID-19 ICU survivors: an MRI pilot study Wen Shi; Dengrong Jiang; Hannah Rando; Shivalika Khanduja; Zixuan Lin; Kaisha Hazel; George Pottanat; Ebony Jones; Cuimei Xu; Doris Lin; Sevil Yasar; Sung-Min Cho; Hanzhang Lu Objectives Coronavirus disease 2019...