People who experience breakthrough infections of the coronavirus after being fully vaccinated are about 50 percent less likely to experience long Covid than are unvaccinated people who catch the virus, researchers said in a large new report on British adults. The...
While the vaccines are effective at preventing serious illness and death, the risk of developing post-Covid health problems after a breakthrough infection isn’t known. By Tara Parker-Pope While some breakthrough cases among those who are fully vaccinated against...
Lingering physical, mental and neurological symptoms are affecting children as well as adults, including many who had mild reactions to the initial coronavirus infection. By Pam Belluck Will Grogan stared blankly at his ninth-grade biology classwork. It was material...
By John Mauldin ~ Thoughts from the Frontline If you look just at 2021, it seems the US economy is tearing higher. Real GDP grew an annualized +6.5% in the second quarter, the Commerce Department estimated last week. This follows a similar +6.3% first quarter, and a...
Coordinating care among different specialties could help patients with many problems and no proved therapies By Melba Newsome Since testing positive for COVID on December 10, 2020, 47-year-old Sherry Flynn of Goldsboro, N.C., has been plagued by a long list of...
June 24, 2021 ~ The Guardian ~ Joanna Partridge ‘Your body just stops’: long Covid sufferers face new ordeals as sick pay runs out Nurses, teachers and shopworkers who have lost their health and their jobs talk about their struggle for support Working seven days a...
June 21, 2021 ~ The Guardian ~ by Fiona Lowenstein I rested my way to recovery from long Covid. I urge others to do the same Rest and pacing, rather than graded exercise, seem the most effective treatments to prescribe widely to long Covid patients Within a few days...
June 18, 2021 ~ CNN ~ Jen Christensen As the pandemic in the US slows, the fight against 'long haul' Covid is on Dr. Michael Saag normally cares for Covid-19 patients, but early in the pandemic, he became a patient. Now, he has joined the ranks with lingering symptoms...
June 16, 2021 ~ FLCCC - Front Line Covid Critical Care Alliance I-RECOVER Management Protocol for Long Haul COVID-19 Syndrome (LHCS) The Long Haul COVID-19 Syndrome (LHCS) is an often debilitating syndrome characterized by a multitude of symptoms such as prolonged...
June 15, 2021 ~ MedRxiv ~ Gwenaëlle Douaud et al. Brain imaging before and after COVID-19 in UK Biobank Abstract There is strong evidence for brain-related pathologies in COVID-19, some of which could be a consequence of viral neurotropism. The vast majority of brain...
June 10, 2021 ~ ABC News ~ Dr. Natalie Rosen The COVID-19 virus can cause diabetes, new studies find "The virus actually destroys the cells in the pancreas that make insulin." There is troubling news for those infected with the COVID-19 virus. New studies have found...
By Elizabeth Cooney, May 10, 2021, StatNews It’s well-known now that people of color have shouldered a disproportionate burden in the Covid-19 pandemic. Now researchers and clinicians are increasingly concerned that history is repeating itself in the case of long...
YALE Medicine, Kathy Katella, April 12, 2021 Why Vaccines May Be Helping Some With Long COVID Yale researcher is eager to find answers. As more people get vaccinated, a surprise discovery has been that the vaccines seem to provide relief for some patients with what’s...
The American Journal of Medicine, May 2021 Integrative Medicine and the Long Hauler Syndrome—We Meet Again “What remains in diseases after the crisis is apt to produce relapses.” Hippocrates, Aphorisms (400 BCE) Integrative medicine (IM) has been attacked by some...
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