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SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19
Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, University of Minnesota
Studies show long-COVID symptoms distinct from other respiratory infections, common in Marines
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"Compared with other LRTIs, COVID-19 appeared to impose an extra burden of neurological, cognitive, and fatigue symptoms,” the authors concluded.
Stephanie Soucheray
MA
Date published: Oct. 25, 2024
Date archived: Oct. 28, 2024
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The Lancet
Changes in memory and cognition during the SARS-CoV-2 human challenge study
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Patient-reported outcomes and cross-sectional evidence show an association between COVID-19 and persistent cognitive problems.
William Trender, Peter J. Hellyer, Ben Killingley, Mariya Kalinova, Alex J. Mann, Andrew P. Catchpole, David Menon, Edward Needham, Ryan Thwaites, Christopher Chiu, Gregory Scott, Adam Hampshire
Date published: Sept. 21, 2024
Date archived: Sept. 22, 2024
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Institute for New Economic Thinking
“Debilitating a Generation”: Expert Warns That Long COVID May Eventually Affect Most Americans
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The danger is clear and present: COVID isn’t merely a respiratory illness; it’s a multi-dimensional threat impacting brain function, attacking almost all of the body’s organs, producing elevated risks of all kinds, and weakening our ability to fight off other diseases. Reinfections are thought to produce cumulative risks, and Long COVID is on the rise. Unfortunately, Long COVID is now being considered a long-term chronic illness — something many people will never fully recover from.
Lynn Parramore
Senior Research Analyst
Date published: June 13, 2024
Date archived: June 15, 2024
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Medscape Medical News
New Data: Long COVID Cases Surge
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Independently, advocates, researchers, and clinicians also reported seeing an increase in the number of people who have developed long COVID after a second or third infection. John Baratta, MD, who runs the COVID Recovery Clinic at the University of North Carolina, said the increase is related to a higher rate of acute cases in the fall and winter of 2023.
Tinker Ready
Date published: March 28, 2024
Date archived: March 28, 2024
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Too many patients are catching COVID in Australian hospitals, doctors say. So why are hospitals rolling back precautions?
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For Andrew Miller, a Perth-based anaesthetist and chair of OzSAGE, an independent advisory group of experts in epidemiology, health and economics, a major problem is that COVID is too often being treated by hospitals as a "common cold" when it should be treated as seriously as tuberculosis or golden staph.
Hayley Gleeson
Date published: Feb. 10, 2024
Date archived: May 6, 2024
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Fam Med Community Health
Association of COVID-19 with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infections in children aged 0–5 years in the USA in 2022: a multicentre retrospective cohort study
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COVID-19 was associated with a significantly increased risk for RSV infections among children aged 0–5 years in 2022. Similar findings were replicated for a study population of children aged 0–5 years in 2021. Our findings suggest that COVID-19 contributed to the 2022 surge of RSV cases in young children through the large buildup of COVID-19-infected children and the potential long-term adverse effects of COVID-19 on the immune and respiratory system.
Lindsey Wang, Pamela B Davis, Nathan Berger, David C Kaelber, Nora Volkow, Rong Xu
Date published: Oct. 13, 2023
Date archived: Nov. 10, 2023
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Post-COVID Conditions: Information for Healthcare Providers
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Acute SARS-CoV-2 infection and PCC have been documented to have the following effects: cardiovascular, pulmonary, renal, psychologic, neurologic / cognitive, gastrointestinal, immunologic, endocrine, reproductive, genitourinary, dermatologic
Date published: Sept. 11, 2023
Date archived: Oct. 10, 2023
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Governing body
American Heart Association Newsroom
COVID-19 may trigger new-onset high blood pressure
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21% of people hospitalized with COVID-19 and 11% of those who were not hospitalized for COVID-19 developed high blood pressure, compared to 16% of people hospitalized with influenza and 4% of those not hospitalized for influenza.
Date published: Aug. 21, 2023
Date archived: Aug. 28, 2023
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48hills
Long COVID has reached the ‘Russian Roulette’ stage in the US
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What we do know, definitively and without question, is that COVID-19 is not “just a cold,” as some right-wingers have maintained. As the Nature Reviews article notes, “SARS-CoV-2 has the capacity to damage many organ systems.”
Bruce Mirken
Date published: March 28, 2023
Date archived: July 5, 2023
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Neurology
Incidence of Epilepsy and Seizures Over the First 6 Months After a COVID-19 Diagnosis
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The incidence of new seizures or epilepsy diagnoses in the 6 months after COVID-19 was low overall, but higher than in matched patients with influenza. This difference was more marked in people who were not hospitalized, highlighting the risk of epilepsy and seizures even in those with less severe infection. Children appear at particular risk of seizures and epilepsy after COVID-19 providing another motivation to prevent COVID-19 infection in pediatric populations.
Maxime Taquet, MD, PhD; Orrin Devinsky, MD, PhD; J. Helen Cross, MD, PhD; Paul J. Harrison, DM, FRCPsych; and Arjune Sen, MD, PhD
Date published: Feb. 21, 2023
Date archived: Dec. 19, 2023
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Nature Reviews Microbiology
Long COVID: major findings, mechanisms and recommendations
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Long COVID is an often debilitating illness that occurs in at least 10% of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infections. More than 200 symptoms have been identified with impacts on multiple organ systems.
Hannah E. Davis, Lisa McCorkell, Julia Moore Vogel & Eric J. Topol
Date published: Jan. 13, 2023
Date archived: Sept. 14, 2023
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The Conversation
The risk of seizures and epilepsy is higher after COVID than after the flu – new research
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For people with COVID who were hospitalised, the point at which a diagnosis of seizures or epilepsy was most common was at nine days after infection. For those who were not hospitalised, the peak was at 41 days. In children with COVID, the peak point for seizures or epilepsy was at 50 days after infection and at that time children who had COVID were three times more likely to have epilepsy or seizures than children who had flu.
Arjune Sen
Head of the Oxford Epilepsy Research Group, University of Oxford
Date published: Nov. 18, 2022
Date archived: March 20, 2023
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National Bureau of Economic Research
The Impacts of Covid-19 Illnesses on Workers
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We show that Covid-19 illnesses persistently reduce labor supply. Using an event study, we estimate that workers with week-long Covid-19 work absences are 7 percentage points less likely to be in the labor force one year later compared to otherwise-similar workers who do not miss a week of work for health reasons.
Gopi Shah Goda & Evan J. Soltas
Date published: Sept. 1, 2022
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University of Auckland News and Opinion
If you've recently had Covid, look out for shingles
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Opinion: Can having Covid trigger shingles? Yes, probably, according to Associate Professor Helen Petousis-Harris, and you might want to think about a shingles vaccine.
Date published: Aug. 16, 2022
Date archived: Sept. 25, 2023
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Time
You Could Have Long COVID and Not Even Know It
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Policymakers, public-health officials, and the media “have often portrayed covid as a short, flu-like disease, especially in the young,” Perego wrote in an email. As a result, people might not make the connection between a case of COVID-19 and health issues months later, especially if they had a mild initial illness or are fully vaccinated; other people may have been asymptomatically infected or got a false-negative test result, so they don’t know they had COVID-19 at all.
Jamie Ducharme
Date published: June 28, 2022
Date archived: March 29, 2024
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Nature
SARS-CoV-2 is associated with changes in brain structure in UK Biobank
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[...] and (3) a greater reduction in global brain size in the SARS-CoV-2 cases. The participants who were infected with SARS-CoV-2 also showed on average a greater cognitive decline between the two time points.
Gwenaëlle Douaud, Soojin Lee, Fidel Alfaro-Almagro, Christoph Arthofer, Chaoyue Wang, Paul McCarthy, Frederik Lange, Jesper L. R. Andersson, Ludovica
Date published: March 8, 2022
Date archived: Sept. 6, 2023
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UC Davis Health
Studies show long-haul COVID-19 afflicts 1 in 4 COVID-19 patients, regardless of severity
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Another consistent finding is that it does not appear to matter whether non-hospitalized patients had more severe cases of COVID-19, mild cases or even cases that caused no symptoms at all.
Date published: March 30, 2021
Date archived: July 18, 2023
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