From Saint Martin (dutch colony in the caribbean) Many long COVID patients adjust to slim recovery odds as world moves on https://www.thedailyherald.sx/suppl...djust-to-slim-recovery-odds-as-world-moves-on Edit: see comment below
I think this is just a copy of a Reuters article from a month ago: https://www.reuters.com/business/he...st-slim-recovery-odds-world-moves-2024-11-14/
That explains it. I was indeed suprised by the global scope and detailed report coming out of a tiny paper in Saint Martin.
Syndication. Reuters & associated press model before the internet used to be syndicating articles to newspapers round the world. So it looks like some of that still goes on even tho they have own websites. Articles in local press across the uk are often repeats as well as the papers are owned by bigger news outlets.
It definitely does, I often read the Huffington Post and they often have an AP logo at the top of the article (to signify syndication). But most news services explicitly mention it either at the top or the bottom, that wasn’t done here.
From the Reuter's article: "For patients who have been struggling for more than two years, the chance of a full recovery "is going to be very slim," said Manoj Sivan, a professor of rehabilitation medicine at the University of Leeds and one of the authors of the findings published in The Lancet. Sivan said this should be termed "persistent long COVID" and understood like the chronic conditions myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome, or fibromyalgia, which can be features of long COVID or risk factors for it. I wasn't aware that FM or ME made you more at risk for Long Covid. First time I've heard this. I assume that it would make these conditions much worse so it is why I take precautionary measures.
Today I learned that the Dutch have a colony in the Caribbean. No reason why not, I guess. But for the usual accidents of history modern Australia might well have been speaking Dutch. Or French, Portuguese, or Spanish.
The Dutch had a number of Caribbean colonies. My mother was born on Curaçao in the former Dutch Antilles, where Dutch is still one of the official languages. Linguistically, culturally and even botanically it is a real melting pot of African, European and American in the broadest sense (North and South). The capital Willemstad is full of the most stunning eighteenth century townhouses in fantastical colours, Amsterdam on acid. In the 1920s it was a different world. While my grandmother was in labour, canons (well at least she always said canons rather than artillery) were being fired on insurrectionists trying to seize the Dutch arsenal just across the harbour from my family’s home,
Sick Times article Without clear clinical guidelines in México, people with Long COVID face gaslighting and erasure https://thesicktimes.org/2025/02/18...with-long-covid-face-gaslighting-and-erasure/ Key points you should know: Long COVID may affect millions of Mexicans, but a lack of information prohibits adequate medical care and innovative research. Some Mexican doctors are calling on the government to establish a national clinical guideline, which could direct local clinics and medical experts on how best to diagnose and treat the disease. Similar to other countries, the government places higher-priority on surveilling and addressing other easier-to-diagnose diseases, like dengue. Despite attempts to approve a clinical guideline, the government agency in charge of approvals has yet to review the proposal.
