Regitse Højgaard Christensen1,2*Ronan M. G. Berg1,3,4,5 Background In the wake of the first wave of the ongoing global pandemic, it has become imminently clear that coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has brought with it a whole new clinical syndrome: “long COVID” (1, 2). Hence, after recovery from the acute viral infection, a remarkably large proportion of patients, […]
Loss of taste, one of the most common and frustrating symptoms of COVID-19 infection, appears to be associated with persistent damage to taste buds caused by low amounts of the virus that can linger for months or even more than a year. Findings from the NIA study were published in NEJM Evidence. COVID-related loss of smell […]
Xinyi Wang1,2Jianyong Lei1,2*Zhihui Li, et. al.,Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery Center, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China The coronaviruses that cause notable diseases, namely, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), middle east respiratory syndrome (MERS) and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), exhibit remarkable similarities in genomic components and pathogenetic mechanisms. Although coronaviruses have widely been studied […]
By Tristan Horrom, VA Research Communications, Journal Nature After three year into the pandemic, most people are familiar with the immediate symptoms of COVID-19 infection, which include breathing problems and fever. But reports of COVID-19 “long-haulers” suggest that some people can have persistent, long-lasting health problems caused by the virus. In the largest post-acute COVID-19 […]
by Tyler Durden Revelations that senior US intelligence officials in the early days of the virus pandemic suppressed research indicating a Chinese lab leak as the origin of Covid-19 surfaced in a new Wall Street Journal report titled “Behind Closed Doors: The Spy-World Scientists Who Argued Covid Was a Lab Leak” late this week. The investigation by WSJ’s Michael Gordon and Warren Strobel shows the disagreements within the […]
Samantha Polly, MD and Anthony P. Fernandez, MD, PhD, Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine, 89 (3) 161-167; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.89a.21126 ABSTRACT Cutaneous findings can be clues to diagnosis and infection severity in viral illnesses, including COVID-19. The authors provide an update on the diagnostic and prognostic value of the 5 most common cutaneous abnormalities associated with COVID-19 in adult patients: morbilliform rash, urticaria, vesicles, pseudo-chilblains, and […]
The idea that the pandemic’s origins lie with a research facility in China was once labeled a conspiracy theory By Michael R. Gordon, Warren P. Strobel, WSJ A car and driver had been readied to whisk Jason Bannan from FBI headquarters early one morning in August 2021 to brief the White House on a novel virus that was […]
Yeming Wang, Li Guo, Dan Cui, Hui Zhang, Qiao Zhang, et. al. Open Forum Infectious Diseases, Volume 11, Issue 4,fae137, https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofae137 Abstract The immune mechanisms of long coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID) are not yet fully understood. We aimed to investigate the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)–specific memory immune responses in discharged COVID-19 patients with and without long COVID symptoms. […]
James Bovard, NY Post The Wall Street Journal’s COVID bombshell exposes how federal agencies carried out the biggest scientific con of the century. From the very start of the COVID pandemic in America, federal bureaucrats and politicians rushed to suppress evidence that the pandemic originated from a Chinese government lab bankrolled by US government agencies. In 2021, […]
Josh Christenson and Ryan King, NY Post Spy chiefs “silenced” researchers in the Defense Department and FBI who discovered strong evidence that COVID-19 most likely leaked from a Chinese lab, The Post has learned. As a result, their findings were kept out of an August 2021 report to President Biden on the origins of the global […]