Long Covid may be ‘the next public health disaster’ — with a $3.7 trillion economic impact rivaling the Great Recession

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Authors: Greg Iacurci CNBC KEY POINTS Sam Norpel used to present regular financial updates to C-suite executives.Now, unpredictable bouts of broken, staccato speech make that impossible for the former e-commerce executive.Despite being up to date with vaccines and boosters, Norpel, 48, got Covid-19 in December 2021, when the highly transmissible omicron variant was fueling record […]

CDC Ordered To Disclose Crucial Information From COVID-19 Vaccine Surveillance System

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JAN 14, 2024 Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times  The top U.S. public health agency must disclose information provided by people who experienced problems following COVID-19 vaccination, a federal court has ruled. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is being ordered to produce 7.8 million free-text entries from V-safe, one […]

Doxycycline’s Potential Role in Reducing Thrombosis and Mortality in Critically Ill Patients With COVID-19: A Multicenter Cohort Study

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Khalid Al Sulaiman, MBA, BCCCP, BCNSP, FCCM https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5547-2043,  Ohoud Aljuhani, PharmD, […], and Ghassan Alghamdi, MD Abstract Doxycycline has revealed potential effects in animal studies to prevent thrombosis and reduce mortality. However, less is known about its antithrombotic role in patients with COVID-19. Our study aimed to evaluate doxycycline’s impact on clinical outcomes in critically ill patients with COVID-19. A multicenter retrospective cohort study […]

Large study provides scientists with deeper insight into long COVID symptoms

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NIH-funded research effort identifies most common symptoms, potential subgroups, and initial symptom-based scoring system – with aim of improving future diagnostics and treatment. Initial findings from a study of nearly 10,000 Americans, many of whom had COVID-19, have uncovered new details about long COVID, the post-infection set of conditions that can affect nearly every tissue […]

Why Loss of Smell Can Persist After COVID-19

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Research suggests that long-term smell loss is linked to an ongoing immune response in the nose By DUKE HEALTH NEWS OFFICE  Research This article is part of Harvard Medical School’s continuing coverage of COVID-19. New research has provided important insight into why some people fail to fully regain their sense of smell even months after recovering from COVID-19. […]

COVID Long-Haulers May Experience Abnormal Breathing Patterns, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

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Findings are consistent with long-haul symptoms following the 2005 SARS epidemic Sam Roth, sroth@acc.org, WASHINGTON Many long-haul COVID-19 patients have chronic fatigue syndrome and other breathing issues months after their initial COVID-19 diagnosis, according to study in JACC: Heart Failure, which is the first of its kind to identify a correlation between long-haul COVID-19 and chronic […]

Review Shows COVID-19 Vaccines “Significantly” More Deadly Than Flu Shots:

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JAN 03, 2024 –Authored by Samantha Flom The Epoch Times, An analysis of Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) data indicates that the COVID-19 vaccines are “significantly” more deadly than the flu vaccine, according to Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.). The review was conducted by the senator’s staff and involved a certain level of assumption given […]

Florida Surgeon General calls for halt to COVID-19 vaccine usage after FDA said he spread misinformation

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The US Food and Drug Administration has previously said Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo’s concerns over COVID-19 vaccines are ‘implausible’ Published January 3, 2024, Dr. Joseph Ladapo, Florida’s surgeon general Florida State Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo is calling on healthcare providers to halt the use of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines, citing purported health risks labeled “misinformation” […]

Circadian Rhythm, Sleep, and Immune Response and the Fight against COVID-19

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Mohammed A. Al-Abri, 1 ,* Saif Al-Yaarubi, 2 and Elias A. Said 3 Oman Med J. 2023 Mar; 38(2): e477. Published online 2023 Mar 31. doi: 10.5001/omj.2023.38 PMCID: PMC10031746 PMID: 37009205 Abstract Sleep is an imperative physiological aspect that plays a vital role in maintaining hormonal and humeral functions of the body and hence a healthy life. Circadian rhythms are daily oscillations in human activities and […]

COVID-19, the Eye, and the Brain

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By Lori Baker-Schena, MBA, EdD; COVID-19, the Eye, and the Brain; American College of Ophthalmology As the COVID-19 pandemic began, Prem S. Subramanian, MD, PhD, did not anticipate a direct connection between this novel respiratory disease and the neuro-oph­thalmic conditions he treated. “Yet as it became evident that neuro­logical symptoms were being associated with COVID-19, […]