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Hannu Ikonen, MD

As per A.J. Leonardi:
The current list of infections of increased risk due to Covid infection

1. RSV https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10582888/
Authors at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, a serious institution with a history of 16 Nobel laureates found about a 1.4x risk of rsv infection among youths after covid infection.

2. Strep Throat https://www.bmj.com/content/380/bmj-2022-072529

Authors in the BMJ found a 1.27x increased risk of strep infection after covid.

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Association of COVID-19 with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infections in children aged 0–5 years in the USA in 2022: a multicentre retrospective cohort study

To investigate whether COVID-19 infection was associated with increased risk for incident respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infections and associated diseases among young children that might have contributed to the 2022 surge of severe paediatric RSV ...

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3. Fungal Infections https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10310397/

Authors at the CDC claimed, “COVID-19 infection is a substantial risk factor for certain fungal infections, particularly those caused by invasive molds, likely because of COVID-19–related immune system dysregulation and immunosuppressive therapies, such as corticosteroids or other immunomodulatory medications.”

In fact, fungal hospitalizations nationwide went up, which they attributed to Covid.

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Increased Hospitalizations Involving Fungal Infections during COVID-19 Pandemic, United States, January 2020–December 2021

Hospitalizations involving fungal infections increased 8.5% each year in the United States during 2019–2021. During 2020–2021, patients hospitalized with COVID-19–associated fungal infections had higher (48.5%) in-hospital mortality ...

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