COVID-19 ‘long-haulers’ face increased risk of death and many other health problems

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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 […]

Former State Department Official David Asher: Americans “Will Soon Learn” COVID Origins Truth

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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 […]

Common skin signs of COVID-19 in adults: An update

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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 […]

Behind Closed Doors: The Spy-World Scientists Who Argued Covid Was a Lab Leak

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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 […]

Immune Responses in Discharged COVID-19 Patients With and Without Long COVID Symptoms 

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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. […]

The government’s COVID con gave us a million American caskets

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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, […]

FBI scientists censored briefing Biden on COVID lab leak evidence

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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 […]

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

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Roxana Gheorghita1,2Iuliana Soldanescu3Andrei Lobiuc2, et. al. Front. Immunol., 03 March 2024, 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 significant proportion of them continue […]

Pathophysiological, immunological, and inflammatory features of long COVID

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Karen Bohmwald1,2†Benjamín Diethelm-Varela1†Linmar Rodríguez-Guilarte1, et. al. Front. Immunol., 27 February 2024, Volume 15 – 2024, https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2024.1341600 The COVID-19 pandemic continues to cause severe global disruption, resulting in significant excess mortality, overwhelming healthcare systems, and imposing substantial social and economic burdens on nations. While most of the attention and therapeutic efforts have concentrated on the acute […]

The Prevalence of Dizziness and Vertigo in COVID-19 Patients: A Systematic Review

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George Korres,1,* Dimitrios K. Kitsos,2 Diego Kaski,3 et. al. Abstract Clinical manifestations of COVID-19 include symptoms of vertigo and dizziness, which is rather unsurprising, since SARS-CoV-2 neurotropism may inflict a broad spectrum of neuropathic effects. The widespread nature of central and peripheral audiovestibular pathways suggests that there may be several probable pathophysiological mechanisms. The cytokine storm, CNS infiltration […]