Hang on to your hat, here we go againâŠ
âCould be,â Richard Ebright, a molecular biologist at Rutgers University, wrote in an email to The Intercept when asked about the possibility that these things are both chance occurrences. âBut the list of coincidences is getting verrrrrrrrrrry long.â
It was only a matter of time. Idiots.
Some major media are subtly messaging that it is. WaPo article is all well and good, except for that title for some reasonâŠ
w/o paywall: https://archive.ph/4AANn
Sorry, lost it in a similar incident.
The findings are âcontrary to the perception that recent variants have become successively milder,â according to the study authors, led by epidemiologist Paul Elliott of Imperial College London.
Yeah, there is no evidence for âit will become like the common cold.â
An oral medication designed by scientists with the help of AI algorithms could one day treat patients with COVID-19 and other types of diseases caused by coronaviruses.
Insilico Medicine, a biotech startup based in New York, announced on Tuesday it had nominated a drug candidate for preclinical trials â the stage before you start testing it on humans.
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Flew from Ohare to Salt Lake City yesterday.
OâHare airport: maybe 10% mask usage.
On plane: maybe 2% mask usage (me, and one other)
SLC Airport: 0% mask usage.
This pandemic is still in effect folks!
Iâm still masking up in public too. And yet⊠far too many folks dropping their masks.
The post-COVID conditions span heart, lung, kidney, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, neurological, and mental health conditions. Overall, COVID survivors had nearly twice the risk of developing respiratory and lung conditions, including pulmonary embolisms, compared with uninfected controls. The most common post-COVID conditions were respiratory conditions and musculoskeletal pain.
Among COVID survivors, people ages 18 to 64 were more likely than older survivors to develop cardiac dysrhythmia and musculoskeletal pain. The risks for survivors 65 and up were greater for kidney failure, blood clots, cerebrovascular disease, muscle disorders, neurological conditions, and mental health conditions.
In the older age group, âpost-COVID conditions affecting the nervous system are of particular concern because these conditions can lead to early entry into supportive services or investment of additional resources into care,â the authors wrote. And for the 18-to-64 age group, post-COVID conditions could particularly âaffect a patientâs ability to contribute to the workforce and might have economic consequences for survivors and their dependents.â
I was asked whether I feel at all self conscious wearing a mask. But I wear a kilt when I go to the store, so no not really!
CVS today, only me and the wife. Lowes this evening, only me and the wife. Meijer yesterday, my wife and a couple shoppers but the entire pharmacy was back to wearing masks. I wonder what theyâre seeing to make them put the masks back on.
Working the last few weeks, have to tell people to back off, they all feel the need to be within inches to carry on a conversation. When you say something they roll their eyes. They all know what my health is and they donât respect me enough to honor my wishes so I just walk away.
Only my longest and biggest customer, 95% of my business for 30 years, respects me enough to ask what Iâm comfortable with when we have to meet in person and he will put on a mask just for me. Heâs a great person.
Was in a car with four other people in my free time yesterday. See them every day currently, masks mandatory in the building.
Wore my mask in the car.
Was asked why I was wearing my mask in the car.
Responded that they wouldnât know what I did recently.
In retrospect, I should probably have asked back why I was asked.
Six months after their initial diagnosis of covid, people in the study who were vaccinated had only a slightly reduced risk of getting long covid â 15 percent overall. The greatest benefit appeared to be in reducing blood clotting and lung complications. But there was no difference between the vaccinated and unvaccinated when it came to longer-term risks of neurological issues, gastrointestinal symptoms, kidney failure and other conditions.
David Putrino, a long-covid researcher who serves as director of rehabilitation innovation at the Mount Sinai Health System in New York, shares those concerns. He worries that public health leaders are not taking the current surge seriously enough because they are discounting the risks of long covid.
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âWe failed in our health messaging that death is not the only serious outcome of a covid-19 infection,â Putrino said. â. . . Iâm very concerned that what this is going to do is lead us into a continuation of this mass-disabling event we are seeing with long covid.â
Link is not paywalled.
What gives me a glimmer of hope that the case rate for long covid might not be quite as high as this study suggests is the selection process for who is included in the study:
Most people I know who have tested positive for Covid lately have done it with home tests that wouldnât be included in the electronic health records. Asymptomatic folks who didnât get tested wouldnât be included. And a lot of people donât visit their doctor every year and therefore wouldnât be included either. So hopefully the study overstates the results at least a little bit, because last I heard a couple months ago the CDC estimates that at least 2/3 of adults have encountered the virus by now.
As predicted. We have fucked around and found out. The burden in lost productivity, healthcare, pain and suffering will be incalculable. But at least we got rid of those masks, amirite?
This study from the NIH is interesting. They took a group of confirmed covid patients (including a large portion who were suffering from long covid) and a group of folks who were confirmed to never have had covid, and subjected both to a ton of different kinds of tests to see what differences there were between groups:
The TLDR is that there were very few signals in the tests that significantly differed between groups. So if nothing else it indicates that there are a lot of diagnostic tests that probably donât help out long covid patients too much and probably donât need to be done.
So, people who had no antibodies I suppose? Or can they differentiate between vaccine antibodies and those from natural exposure?
