Thousands of people disabled by long COVID seek answers

Six years after the COVID-19 pandemic began, doctors are still treating long COVID patients with complex symptoms and unknown futures.

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Long-COVID symptoms persist for years in nonhospitalized adults, study reveals

Adults who were physically active before COVID infection still had impairments years later.

Amid Confusing CDC Guidance About Vaccines, Study Highlights New Risk of COVID-19 During Pregnancy

A Harvard study found that the children of women who contracted COVID-19 while pregnant may be at an increased risk for autism and other diagnoses, raising new concerns about the CDC’s decision to stop recommending the vaccine to pregnant women.

Health-related quality of life of adult post COVID-19 condition patients three years after infection and patient characteristics associated with change over time: a longitudinal analysis from the CORFU study - Quality of Life Research

Purpose Post COVID-19 Condition (PCC) negatively impacts Health Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) and can persist for years after initial infection. This study examined long term HRQoL of COVID-19 survivors with PCC to explore whether and how HRQoL changes over time, and to determine which patient characteristics are associated with changes. Methods COVID-19 survivors from the Dutch CORona Follow-Up (CORFU) study were prospectively followed for up to 3 years post-infection using self-report questionnaires. PCC was defined on presence of symptoms reported at the 2-year time point. Within-person change in EQ-5D-5L utility and EQ VAS scores were analyzed from the 2-year to the 3-year time point. Changes were described using summary statistics, and associations with patient characteristics were analyzed using multivariable linear regressions. Results Among 158 participants that met PCC definition 2-years after infection, mean utility and EQ VAS change score was 0.01 (95%CI − 0.02,0.04), and 0.9 (95%CI − 1.6,3.4), respectively. Based on EQ utility change scores, 30% experienced a decrease, 32% an increase, and 37% no change. Similar distributions were observed for EQ VAS. Female sex was associated with decreasing utility scores. Increasing utility scores were associated with female sex of older age when compared to younger ones, and with people that initially reported social participation problems.. Conclusion Individual changes in HRQoL within a year vary widely in the PCC population. Our findings suggest that certain subgroups of individuals with PCC are more vulnerable to prolonged declines in HRQoL.

Long Covid Is Real — And It’s Changing an Entire Generation

Long Covid is affecting hundreds of thousands of kids in America, and many doctors and schools refuse to recognize their illness.

COVID-19 is “Airborne AIDS”: provocative oversimplification, emerging science, or something in between?

COVID-19 caused by SARS-CoV-2 is often compared to other pandemics for its societal and global health impact, with some commentators drawing parallels to HIV/AIDS due to the immune dysfunction caused by both viruses (1-4).

CDC ‘Not Functional’ After Trump Administration Orders Mass Firings

The layoffs targeted leaders in departments related to respiratory diseases, chronic diseases, injury prevention and global health.

Tess Finch-Lees: Forever-Covid hurts young people’s health – and their futures

Two years ago, I reported on a study finding that the corona­virus contributed to the 2022 surge of paediatric RSV cases “through the large build-up of Covid-19-infected children and the potential long-term adverse effects of Covid on the immune and respiratory system”.

7 Reasons Why This “Vaccinated vs. Unvaccinated” Study Fails

This recently released small, unpublished study on Vaccinated vs. Unvaccinated kids is a load of bollocks. It is designed to find that vaccinated kids have