Well-known, famous people with Covid-19 and Long Covid

It seems pretty clear that it was known that he was test positive earlier than we have been told.
In the video he looks seriously sick. His lung function is not up to just standing and taking a mask off.
And that is on steroids.
I have no idea what will happen but at 74 I would expect it to take weeks to get back to functioning normally from that state.

 

Trump is also about to enter the period where people can get worse again from covid 19 related immune responses.

 

Hope this won't breach any rule. Just thought it's good to know that regarding misleading information about a pandemic, Twitter imposed some rules:

Code:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1313449844413992961

 

Twiv microbe TV has an excellent, but a bit technical medical exposition of the Trump covid saga here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFpp3pIRjGQ

Summarizing: Trump probably at Day 10 (second week) of infection. He'll need to clear the third week (micro-clotting in lungs and major clotting elsewhere, plus bacterial infections).
Yes, he could leave the White House after the monoclonal cocktail and remdesivir which knock down the viral load, because he has medical monitoring and some equipment at the White House.

AND, is it vastly more reassuring to the American people to have your president out of the hospital (I certainly agree with that).

So, if infection began on Sept 27, he'll have to make it through three weeks at least to be sort of "out of the woods." That would put it around Oct 20.

 

Tool Singer Maynard Jame Keenan had Covid in Februrary and is still suffering from symptoms:

"And there's after-effects. I had to go through some major medications to undo the residual effects. Still coughing. There's still lung damage.

Q: Oh man, I'm really sorry to hear that.

A: Several of my friends, too. Very not old people, young people, in shape, runners, who contracted it as well. And they're still dealing with some of the after-effects. I lost a few family members."

[...]

"I still have the cough. Every other day, I have these coughing fits because my lungs are still damaged at the tips. And I just got over the inflammation that was going on with my wrist and hands. I had an autoimmune attack on my system in the form of, like, a rheumatoid arthritis. Basically, from what I understand, it attacks weird spots and it's random."

 

The Minister of health in South Africa has tested positive for Covid-19
https://twitter.com/user/status/1317912421256908801

 

Jordan Peterson had Covid in the midst of other severe health issues

 

I admit that he is probably not well known to people who do not follow sport, but there is an interesting report concerning the cyclist Fernando Gaviria who has had to withdraw from the Giro. Apparently he is now positive for a second time, having previously been ill in February. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/54612253

 

Do they know (yet) whether these are new infections or reactivated infections?

 

I have seen nothing more than that report, but there are interesting questions which may yet be answered. Or not, as the case may be.

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...oore-coronavirus-covid-hospital-b1795486.html

 

RIP

 

Not necessarily well-known personally but there is a growing number of professional athletes who are struggling, some to the point of putting their career on hold. So far it's more than a handful in professional hockey, including a high-profile prospect who was about to start his professional career and returned home to convalesce.

There is also a star player (Jonathan Toews, Chicago Blackhawks) who has taken the whole season off with an explanation that sounds a whole lot like ME, but is unclear whether it's Covid-related. He basically said some of the same things here.

Hockey is a sport of intense conditioning. Basically a series of sprints over 2.5 hours, short shifts of high intensity. It requires peak conditioning.

I'm mostly posting because the hockey community is responding to it surprisingly well, is probably more aware of post-Covid illness than most because of high-profile cases, makes it more visible.

Finnish newspaper: COVID has ruined Ristolainen's physical conditioning

 

White House Senior Adviser for COVID response Andy Slavitt reveals that his son has LC.

 

https://twitter.com/user/status/1303123434134810624

 

Uh, this could be significant if he means it. This is one person who can make that happen, or at least tip the balance in a way to make that happen. Nothing beats being a real stakeholder in a serious matter to really take it seriously.

And if I'm correct on the timeline this was before his son's illness, so the stakes have risen significantly. He is a former administrator of Medicare/Medicaid services, can have huge influence if he flexes political muscle.

 

fwiw - Slavitt is leaving in June - his position with the administration was a short-term appointment (max of limit of 120 days allowed I believe).