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A resource for COVID-19 research and information
Former White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Ashish Jha
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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The Marines were young (median age, 18) and healthy, having passed a number of Marine physical fitness tests prior to study enrollment. The participants were asked to complete a survey about COVID infection and symptoms. Overall, 197 Marines (24.7%) developed persistent symptoms after COVID infection.
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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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Too many children with long COVID are suffering in silence. Their greatest challenge? The myth that the virus is 'harmless' for kids
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And that, she says, is what most people fail to understand about long COVID: how serious it is, how much is at stake — how fast a healthy girl with boundless energy and big dreams can lose it all. "They think it's incredibly rare, or they don't understand that just because you had one 'nice' bout of COVID doesn't mean the next one isn't going to do permanent damage," Katie says. "People just underestimate it; they assume it won't happen to them and if it does, that someone will be there to help them."
Hayley Gleeson
Date published: June 15, 2024
Date archived: June 16, 2024
Personal anecdote
Journalist
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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Journal of Travel Medicine
Protection of natural infection against reinfection with SARS-CoV-2 JN.1 variant
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The overall effectiveness of previous infection in preventing reinfection with JN.1, regardless of symptoms, was estimated at 1.8% (95% CI: −9.3 to 12.6%) (Fig. 1). This effectiveness demonstrated a rapid decline over time since the previous infection, decreasing from 82.4% (95% CI: 40.9 to 94.7%) within 3 to less than 6 months after the previous infection to 50.9% (95% CI: −11.8 to 78.7%) in the subsequent 3 months, and further dropping to 18.3% (95% CI: −34.6 to 56.3) in the subsequent 3 months. Ultimately, it reached a negligible level after one year.
Hiam Chemaitelly, PhD; Peter Coyle, MD; Mohamed Ali Ben Kacem, MD; Houssein H. Ayoub, PhD; Patrick Tang, MD PhD; Mohammad R. Hasan, PhD; Hadi M. Yassine, PhD; Asmaa A. Al Thani, PhD; Zaina Al-Kanaani, PhD; Einas Al-Kuwari, MD; Andrew Jeremijenko, MD; Anvar H. Kaleeckal, MSc; Ali N. Latif, MD2; Riyazuddin M. Shaik, MSc; Hanan F. Abdul-Rahim, PhD; Gheyath K. Nasrallah, PhD; Mohamed Ghaith Al-Kuwari, MD; Adeel A. Butt, MBBS MS; Hamad E. Al-Romaihi, MD; Mohamed H. Al-Thani, MD; Abdullatif Al-Khal, MD; Roberto Bertollini, MD MPH; Laith J. Abu-Raddad, PhD
Date published: May 9, 2024
Date archived: June 20, 2024
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Temerty Faculty of Medicine University of Toronto
Researchers discover COVID-19 virus breaks protein production line
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The virus is like a ‘clever saboteur’ inside our cells, making sure its own needs are met while disrupting our cells’ ability to defend themselves.
Jenni Bozec
Date published: April 12, 2024
Date archived: April 19, 2024
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Long COVID will take your health, your wealth — then it will come for your marriage
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Until 2020, Dr Putrino worked mostly with people who had suffered stroke and traumatic brain injury — typically sudden events that result in disability and big shifts in the dynamics of patients' relationships. Now, he sees those same changes rippling through the families who visit his long COVID clinic.
Hayley Gleeson
Date published: Dec. 27, 2023
Date archived: Dec. 27, 2023
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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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The Washington Post
Many long-covid symptoms linger even after two years, new study shows
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People who endured even mild cases of covid-19 are at heightened risk two years later for lung problems, fatigue, diabetes and certain other health problems typical of long covid, according to a new study that casts fresh light on the virus’s true toll.
Amy Goldstein
Date published: Aug. 21, 2023
Date archived: Sept. 20, 2023
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CNN Health
Long Covid symptoms create a greater burden of disability than heart disease or cancer, new study shows
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“I think that we need to understand that infections lead to chronic disease and we need to take infection seriously,” even when it seems to be mild, Al-Aly said.
Brenda Goodman
Date published: Aug. 21, 2023
Date archived: Sept. 2, 2023
Article on a study
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Viruses (MDPI)
SARS-CoV-2 Reinfection and Severity of the Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
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Reinfection with SARS-CoV-2 does occur, suggesting that natural immunity is not long-lasting in COVID-19 patients.
Nhu Ngoc Nguyen, Y Ngoc Ngyuen, Van Thuan Hoang, Matthieu Million, Philippe Gautret
Date published: April 14, 2023
Date archived: May 21, 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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WebMD
Long COVID Risk Makes It Worth Avoiding Second Infections
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“It’s not like, ‘Oh, I’ve had one, so it’s OK. Now I can take off my mask, do what I like.’ It has health consequences for reinfections – higher mortality rate, higher hospitalization rates, higher risk of long term, lingering symptoms,” she says.
Solarina Ho
Date published: Dec. 19, 2022
Date archived: March 17, 2023
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Nature Medicine
Acute and postacute sequelae associated with SARS-CoV-2 reinfection
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The evidence shows that reinfection further increases risks of death, hospitalization and sequelae in multiple organ systems in the acute and postacute phase. Reducing overall burden of death and disease due to SARS-CoV-2 will require strategies for reinfection prevention.
Benjamin Bowe, Yan Xie & Ziyad Al-Aly
Date published: Nov. 10, 2022
Date archived: Sept. 14, 2023
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Time
You Can Still Get Long COVID If You’re Vaccinated and Boosted
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For now, though, even vaccinated, boosted, and previously infected people aren’t immune to Long COVID. Any infection could lead to lingering complications, which underscores the importance of limiting exposure to the virus as much as possible.
Jamie Ducharme
Date published: Nov. 8, 2022
Date archived: March 31, 2024
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Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Is the Hygiene Hypothesis True? Did Covid shutdowns stunt kids' immune systems?
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From my point of view, right now, avoiding flu and COVID-19 is a priority. Those are not going to help you develop a healthy immune response, and in fact, they can do a lot of damage to the lungs during that critical developmental time. Data [show] that children that have more infections in the first 6 months to a year of life go on to have more problems.
Caitlin Rivers interviewing Marsha Wills-Karp, PHD, MHS (Chair of Johns Hopkins Department of Environmental Health and Engineering)
Date published: Oct. 25, 2022
Date archived: Oct. 8, 2023
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The Conversation
I’ve had COVID and am constantly getting colds. Did COVID harm my immune system? Am I now at risk of I’ve had COVID and am constantly getting colds. Did COVID harm my immune system? Am I now at risk of other infectious diseases? infectious diseases?
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After SARS-CoV-2 infection, one study found evidence many of these cells had been activated and “exhausted”. This suggests the cells are dysfunctional, and might not be able to adequately fight a subsequent infection. In other words, sustained activation of these immune cells after a SARS-CoV-2 infection may have an impact on other inflammatory diseases.
Dr. Lara Herrero
Research Leader in Virology and Infectious Disease, Griffith University
Date published: Sept. 18, 2022
Date archived: March 16, 2024
Article on a study
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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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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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