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[Denis - The COVID info guy - @BigBadDenis]

🇺🇸USA: "Previous research estimated that 20 million Americans have long COVID; however, new research published in JAMA Network Open suggests that an additional 10 million Americans may be unknowingly suffering"

#LongCOVID #COVIDisNotOver #COVIDisAirborne

https://t.co/HcL52APkKI

[Zdenek Vrozina @ZdenekVrozina]

A new study suggests that SARS2 may leave a lasting imprint on the immune system.
In both adults and children, COVID-19 was associated with an increased risk of developing new allergic/atopic conditions during the following 18 months.🧵

[Danielle Beckman @DaniBeckman]

Is #LongCovid going away? Data show it is not. In a cohort study with 457.950 Covid cases, 1 in 6 patients developed Long Covid. Prevalence is 13-23% of US population, increasing 0.4%-1.5% every 3 months.
Cases remained stable through 2022 but started to increase in late 2023.

[tern @1goodtern]

Another month of data, and another climb in sickness absence at the world's sixth largest employer.

I've pointed out the start of the Covid Pandemic.
Can you point out the end?

[tern @1goodtern]

I've been thinking about this a lot since a woman in our community lost her unborn baby at 32 weeks while ill with a viral infection.

If you look at this chart, it's horribly obvious how much extra suffering viral infections have caused to pregnant women since 2020.

But...

[mark warling @markwarling3]

Long COVID Far More Common Than Records Show, and It's Getting Worse https://t.co/UlnFiW6xsK

[Hiroshi Yasuda (保田浩志) @Yash25571056]

https://t.co/VtFejKn62b

[Denis - The COVID info guy - @BigBadDenis]

"Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong revealed 52 million Americans have low T cell counts." He warns "having low T cells can double your risk of early death." "If it's below 1000, the risk of dying earlier is two times," "whether you’re without disease or... have cancer."

[Denis - The COVID info guy - @BigBadDenis]

A Mount Sinai study shows that autoimmunity causes long COVID symptoms in some people, meaning the immune system attacks its own tissues.

https://t.co/1EBO74JCQf

[tern @1goodtern]

Articles seem to be completely pointless on here, but I'm trying it again.

No one sees them, no one reads them.

What's the point?

[Denis - The COVID info guy - @BigBadDenis]

🇺🇸USA: A new study says long COVID is way more common than we think, affecting about 1 in 6 people (16%) who get it. Medical tracking codes miss over 10 million cases, capturing under (7%) of actual patients. This means the real total could be double what official estimates show.

[Harry Spoelstra @HarrySpoelstra]

🚨Long COVID continues to severely impair quality of life, daily functioning, and well-being among (Thai) university students.

Anybody surprised? 🙄

This study finally gives us evidence on the impact in a university population, a group that’s often ignored in Long COVID research!
https://t.co/MHb2sR6s4w

[Mike Hoerger, PhD MSCR MBA @michael_hoerger]

In 1961, 90% of physicians reported they preferred not to tell patients their diagnosis when it was cancer.

This is happening every day with COVlD. It could be you. It could be me. Wake up.

[Zdenek Vrozina @ZdenekVrozina]

This may be one of the more important long COVID papers in a while.
A new study in Frontiers in Immunology suggests that COVID can trigger new-onset insulin resistance - and that this may drive abnormal NETosis in neutrophils months after infection🧵

[tern @1goodtern]

Covid infections can weaken your immune system. That is established science, not speculation.

Vaccines did not cause it. Vaccines did not fully stop it. Repeat infections can make it worse.

Denying this is not caution or balance, it is science denial.

Stop catching Covid. Stop spreading it.

[Denis - The COVID info guy - @BigBadDenis]

COVID-19 death toll far higher than official numbers, says WHO.

The WHO estimates the COVID-19 pandemic caused 22.1 million excess deaths globally between 2020 and 2023 — more than 3 times the officially reported 7 million COVID deaths worldwide.

https://t.co/cTFK6fb2Rf

[Cat in the Hat 🐈‍⬛ 🎩 🇬🇧 @_CatintheHat]

A growing number of scientists have been sounding the alarm recently about how repeated Covid infections may be damaging our immune systems…

https://t.co/cKsXSm9Bn2

[Danielle Beckman @DaniBeckman]

People who tested positive for #COVID have a higher risk of being diagnosed with other infections in the following months. This has been shown for years and hundreds of publications in the topic. Covid has an impact on the immune system we still don't fully understand.

[Hiroshi Yasuda (保田浩志) @Yash25571056]

As you may already know well, "young patients who experienced a second confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection during the omicron period were more than twice as likely to receive a clinician-documented diagnosis of post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC) as those in the same calendar period after a first infection..
[In this cohort study of >465,000 patients younger than 21 years,] the incidence of clinician-documented PASC was roughly 1,884 cases per million children after a second infection, compared with about 904 cases per million after a first infection..
Beyond formal PASC diagnoses, children and adolescents who experienced reinfection had an elevated risk of a wide range of symptoms and conditions previously associated with long COVID.
These outcomes spanned multiple organ systems, including:
- cardiovascular complications such as myocarditis, arrhythmias, heart disease and chest pain;
- neurologic and cognitive effects such as headaches, cognitive impairment, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) and other forms of dysautonomia;
- kidney injury;
- thrombotic events; and
- more common symptom clusters including fatigue, abdominal pain and musculoskeletal pain.
Myocarditis risk was more than three times higher after a second infection, and the risk of thrombotic events more than doubled..
These findings directly contradict the common assumption that because acute omicron illness is usually mild in children, and reinfection is clinically inconsequential.."

SARS-CoV-2 is different.

'Reinfection raises Long COVID risk in children and adolescents'
https://t.co/5x6y9gNfSq

[tern @1goodtern]

Don't ever forget that your government upgraded the air filtration in its main government buildings during an airborne pandemic, but not the hospital you attend or your mum's care home or your kids' daycare or prisons or shelters.