New Report Reviews Evidence on Long COVID Diagnosis, Risk, Symptoms, and Functional Impact for Patients


WASHINGTON — A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine presents conclusions about Long COVID diagnosis, symptoms, and impact on daily function — including that Long COVID can cause more than 200 symptoms, and that a positive COVID-19 test is not necessary to make a Long COVID diagnosis.  Since the onset of the […]

Study Largely Confirms Known, Rare COVID-19 Vaccine Side Effects


By Kate Yandell, 2024, SciCheck Digest An international study of around 99 million people confirmed known serious side effects of COVID-19 vaccination. It also identified a possible relationship between the first dose of the Moderna vaccine and a small risk of a neurological condition. Social media posts about the study left out information on the vaccines’ […]

IT BEGINS: Kansas Sues Pfizer — State Alleges Company Knew of ‘Serious Adverse Events’ Yet Marketed COVID-19 Vaccine as ‘Safe’


By Jim Hᴏft Jun. 17, 2024 The Gateway Pundit During a press conference in Topeka, alongside Deputy Attorney General Fran Oleen and Assistant Attorneys General Kaley Schrader and Melanie Jack, Kobach detailed the allegations lodged against Pfizer. “Pfizer made multiple misleading statements to deceive the public about its vaccine at a time when Americans needed the truth,” said Kobach. The complaint, […]

Prior COVID-19 Infection May Protect Against Common Colds: Study


SATURDAY, JUN 15, 2024 –Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times  People with a history of COVID-19 infection are better protected against common colds than people who received a COVID-19 vaccine, according to a new study. Infection and vaccination triggered similar antibody responses in study participants, but T cell responses targeting endemic coronaviruses, which […]

CDC: New COVID Variant KP.3 On The Rise Across The US


SATURDAY, JUN 15, 2024 – 09:20 AM, Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times  A newly discovered COVID-19 variant, KP.3, is rising to become the dominant strain of the virus across the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). KP.3 constitutes about 25 percent of all COVID-19 cases detected by the […]

NIH Documents Show $1.6 Billion Long COVID Initiative So Far Falls Short Of Goals


FRIDAY, JUN 14, 2024 – Authored by Megan Redshaw, J.D. via The Epoch Times  It’s been more than three years since Congress directed the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to investigate the long-term effects of COVID-19—and there are still no answers for the millions of Americans suffering from long COVID. The NIH launched the $1.15 […]

Long Covid Defined


Authors: E. Wesley Ely, M.D., M.P.H. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3957-2172, Lisa M. Brown, M.P.H., and Harvey V. Fineberg, M.D., Ph.D., for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Committee on Examining the Working Definition for Long Covid, DOI: 10.1056/NEJMsb2408466 The Covid-19 pandemic has been perceived mainly as a dangerous acute outbreak of infection that killed more than a million people in the United States and 7 million worldwide.1,2 However, […]

The knowns and unknowns of long COVID-19: from mechanisms to therapeutical approaches


Roxana Gheorghita1,2Iuliana Soldanescu3Andrei Lobiuc2Olga Adriana Caliman Sturdza2,4et. al., Front. Immunol., 03 March 2024, Sec. Viral Immunology, Volume 15 – 2024 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2024.1344086 The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 has been defined as the greatest global health and socioeconomic crisis of modern times. While most people recover after being infected with the virus, a […]

Covid cases map shows 20 states where traces of disease in wastewater are ‘very high’


Twenty states around the US have “very high” trace of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater, according to an investigation by the CDC. By Alex Shipman, Jul 29, 2024 | An interactive map from the CDC shows ‘very high’ levels of Covid in wastewater around the US (Image: CDC) “Very high” levels of COVID-19 have been detected in the wastewater of 20 […]

Long covid: Hair loss and sexual dysfunction are among wider symptoms, study finds


BMJ 2022; 378 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.o1887 (Published 27 July 2022): BMJ 2022;378:o188, Jacqui Wise People experiencing long covid have reported a wider set of symptoms than previously thought, including hair loss and sexual dysfunction. Electronic health records of 2.4 million people in the UK from January 2020 to April 2021 were analysed for a study published in Nature Medicine.1 The cohort included 486 149 people with […]