Severe Respiratory Disease Among Children With and Without Medical Complexity During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Christina Belza, PhD, MN; Eleanor Pullenayegum, PhD, Katherine E. Nelson, MD, PhD; et al ,JAMA Netw Open. 2023;6(11):e2343318. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.43318 Key Points Question  Did rates and outcomes of severe respiratory illness change during the first 2 years of the pandemic, compared with prepandemic, among children with medical complexity and those without medical complexity? Findings  In this repeated cross-sectional study of 139 078 respiratory hospitalizations in Canada, there were more […]

Dysgeusia in COVID-19: Possible Mechanisms and Implications

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Francina Lozada-Nur, DDS, MS, MPH,a Nita Chainani-Wu, DMD, MS, MPH, PhD,b Giulio Fortuna, DMD, PhD,c and Herve Sroussi, DMD, PhDd : Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol Oral Radiol. 2020 Sep; 130(3): 344–doi: 10.1016/j.oooo.2020.06.016, PMCID: PMC7320705, PMID: 32703719 For the purpose of this letter to the editor, we will focus solely on new-onset dysgeusia as a potential early marker of COVID-19 infection and […]

Paxlovid Rebound More Common Than Believed

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However, the drug remains one of the most effective ways of preventing serious illness and death Published 11/14/23, Sarah Braner The Messenger Viral rebound after taking Paxlovid may be more common than you thought.  Paxlovid, developed by Pfizer, is a widely used medication to combat COVID-19 infections. It has been widely endorsed by U.S. health officials and […]

The COVID Wars

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Will America revert to lockdowns and panic again? Watch the debate taking place now. BY:” JAY BHATTACHARYA AND MARTIN KULLDORFF, NOVEMBER 13, 2023 Tablet OPINION Now that the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the COVID-19 pandemic over, officials are already preparing for the next one, with international negotiations underway to write a treaty that […]

Is the US’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System broken?

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BMJ 2023; 383 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/ bmj.p2582 2023):  BMJ 2023;383:p2582, Jennifer Block, British Medical Journal A BMJ investigation has raised concerns that the VAERS system isn’t operating as intended and that signals are being missed. Jennifer Block reports Three weeks after receiving a second dose of a covid vaccine, Robert Sullivan collapsed at home on his treadmill. An anaesthesiologist in Maryland, USA, he was […]

What is ‘long vax’? Symptoms linked to COVID-19 shot baffle docs

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By Marc Lallanilla, Published July 2023 You’ve heard of “long COVID,” the cases of people who can’t shake the lingering symptoms of COVID-19. Now comes “long vax” — a rare, but baffling set of symptoms that follow a small number of people for months after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine. “You see one or two patients and you […]

How Covid Affected Our Dreams

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Elizaveta Solomonova Ph.D., Mind States, Posted June 18, 2022 What we dreamt about during Covid, and what it could tell us. KEY POINTS Studies show that both our waking and dreaming lives were influenced by the pandemic. While we were preoccupied with the pandemic itself and the profound changes in our habits and lifestyles, our dreams […]

The Declaration That Wasn’t Supposed To Happen

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NOV 2023 – Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Brownstone Institute, Opinion of the Authors. Read Safety Science, VAERS and Daily COVID research publications to educate yourselves and make your own determinations. In October 2020, in the midst of a genuine crisis, three scientists made a very short statement of highly public health wisdom, a […]

Sleep Guidelines During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Updated October 26, 2023, Eric Suni National Cancer Institute Since the World Health Organization’s declaration of a global pandemic in March 2020, COVID-19 has pushed the world into uncharted waters. More than 430 million people worldwide have been infected by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which has contributed to over 5.9 million deaths. The WHO coronavirus (COVID-19) dashboard […]

SARS-CoV-2 is associated with changes in brain structure in UK Biobank

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Gwenaëlle Douaud, Soojin Lee, Fidel Alfaro-Almagro, Christoph Arthofer, Chaoyue Wang, et. al. Nature volume 604, pages697–707 (2022)Cite this article Abstract There is strong evidence of brain-related abnormalities in COVID-191,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13. However, it remains unknown whether the impact of SARS-CoV-2 infection can be detected in milder cases, and whether this can reveal possible mechanisms contributing to brain pathology. Here we investigated brain changes in 785 […]