COVID-19 Can Infect and Harm Digestive Organs


Authors: E.J. Mundell  The coronavirus isn’t just attacking the lungs: New research shows it’s causing harm to the gastrointestinal tract, especially in more advanced cases of COVID-19. A variety of imaging scans performed on hospitalized COVID-19 patients showed bowel abnormalities, according to a study published online May 11 in Radiology. Many of the effects were severe and […]

How Vaccine Messaging Confused The Public


Authors: John Gibson the Brownstone Institute  Pivotal randomized control trials (RCTs) underpinning approval of Covid-19 vaccines did not set out to, and did not, test if the vaccines prevent transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Nor did the trials test if the vaccines reduce mortality risk. A review of seven phase III trials, including those for Moderna, […]

Extensive thrombosis after COVID-19 vaccine: cause or coincidence


Authors: Luís Lourenço Graça ,1 Maria João Amaral ,2 Marco Serôdio,3 Beatriz Costa2 SUMMARYA 62-year-old Caucasian female patient presented with abdominal pain, vomiting and fever 1 day after administration of COVID-19 vaccine. Bloodwork revealed anaemia and thrombocytosis. Abdominal CT angiography showed a mural thrombus at the emergence of the coeliac trunk, hepatic and splenic arteries, […]

Intestinal Damage in COVID-19: SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Intestinal Thrombosis


Authors: Xiaoming Wu1, Haijiao Jing1, Chengyue Wang1, Yufeng Wang1, Nan Zuo1, Tao Jiang2*, Valerie A. Novakovic3 and Jialan Shi1,3,4* Front. Microbiol., 22 March 2022 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2022.860931 The intestinal tract, with high expression of angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2), is a major site of extrapulmonary infection in COVID-19. During pulmonary infection, the virus enters the bloodstream forming viremia, which infects and damages extrapulmonary organs. Uncontrolled viral […]

Review of Mesenteric Ischemia in COVID-19 Patients


Authors: Amit Gupta, Oshin Sharma, Kandhala Srikanth, Rahul Mishra, Amoli Tandon & Deepak Rajput  Indian Journal of Surgery (2022) Published: 11 March 2022 Abstract The new coronavirus (COVID-19) infection, first detected in Wuhan, China in 2019 has become a pandemic that has spread to nearly every country in the world. Through October 11, 2021, more than 23 billion confirmed cases and 4.8 million […]

SARS-CoV-2 and acute diverticulitis: The expanding gastrointestinal manifestations of COVID-19 infection


Authors: Simcha Weissman,Anna Belyayeva,Sachit Sharma,Muhammad Aziz, J Transl Int Med. 2021 Mar; 9(1): 59–60.Published online 2021 Mar 31. doi: 10.2478/jtim-2021-0019PMCID: PMC8016353PMID: 3385080 SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus which emerged in late 2019, has spread rapidly and resulted in a global pandemic. Typical presenting symptoms of SARS-CoV-2 infection, that is, COVID-19, include fever, myalgias, fatigue, dry cough, dyspnea, and anosmia, with pneumonia […]

A closer look at long-haul COVID-19


Authors: Mayo Clinic Press Editors and Joey Keillor Women’s Health April 12, 2022 Caring for people with long-haul COVID-19 is helping to bring increased attention and legitimacy to conditions such as chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia, which are sometimes wrongly characterized as being “all in the head.” Here, anesthesiologist, researcher and human performance expert Michael […]

Two new Omicron COVID subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 being analyzed by WHO


Only a few dozen cases of BA.4 and BA.5 have been reported to the global GISAID database, according to WHO Authors: Jennifer Rigby Reuters April 11, 2022 The World Health Organization said on Monday it is tracking a few dozen cases of two new sub-variants of the highly transmissible Omicron strain of the coronavirus to […]

Warning to anyone who’s had Covid over ‘irreversible’ damage to the brain


Authors: Vanessa Chalmers, Digital Health Reporter  Apr 11 2022 COVID survivors have been warned that the brain could be irreversibly harmed by the virus. The major organ has been shown in dozens of studies to be damaged in even the mildest forms of Covid illness. ‘Brain fog’, difficulty concentrating and memory problems have all been […]

Covid Could Be Surging in the U.S. Right Now and We Might Not Even Know It


Authors: Madison Muller – April 10, 12:12 PM Bloomberg The rise of Covid cases in some regions of the U.S., just as testing efforts wane, has raised the specter that the next major wave of the virus may be difficult to detect. In fact, the country could be in the midst of a surge right now and […]