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In this issue:
💊New antiviral drug for #COVID and #LongCOVID
❣️Guide on POTS evaluation & treatment
💉Vaccines decrease risk of heart attack & strokes
🐦 What's up with Bird Flu?
and much more
https://drruth.substack.com/p/covid-news-22523
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This week XBB.1.5 makes up 85% of cases in the United States, but hospitalizations and deaths are decreasing despite this variant being so contagious. Reported cases are high in Arizona, but wastewater shows that there are also increased amounts of SARS-CoV-2 virus in the San Francisco Bay Area, Nebraska, the Carolinas and Alabama this week. Regarding wastewater, taking an extra 3 minutes to test airplane toilet wastewater from more than 80 international flights into JFK airport in August and September 2022 showed that 81% of these samples were positive for SARS-CoV-2 and all were Omicron subvariants. Authors reported that “
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This week's COVID newsletter is out!
In this issue:
😷What is the real data on masks & COVID?
🧠Long COVID and the brain
💪🏽What Long COVID can do to your muscles
🫁 Problems 1 year and 2 years after COVID infection
and much more
https://drruth.substack.com/p/covid-news-21823
#LongCOVID #COVID #masks #muscle #PEM #MECFS #pregnancy #neurodegenerativedisease #Parkinsons #Alzheimers #ALS #T1D #Diabetes
Hi all, This week, XBB.1.5 is up to 80% of COVID infections in the US. There are still no other variants putting pressure on XBB.1.5 yet which is reassuring. Hospitalizations have decreased as have deaths. We are in a better place than over the winter holidays. Here in the Bay Area, wastewater in San Mateo county, San Francisco, Oakland and Napa shows an increase of virus in wastewater, so
Possible reasons for post-exertional malaise (#PEM) in people with #LongCOVID and/or #MECFS
Muscle biopsy of 11 people with Long COVID and PEM showed:
Microvascular abnormalities
Fewer capillaries
Increased macrophages
Gene signatures w/immune dysregulation and altered metabolic pathways.
Hypothesis: Initial viral infection caused immune-mediated structural changes of the microvasculature, potentially explaining the exercise-dependent fatigue and muscle pain.
https://buff.ly/3SliOd3
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This week's COVID newsletter is out!
In this issue:
📈XBB.1.5 is 75% of cases in US
💉1 shot of #InterferonLambda ⬇️hospitalizations by 50% for ALL variants. Why is it not used?
🦠New biomarkers for #MECFS and ? #LongCOVID
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Hi all, XBB.1.5 is now dominant in almost all of the United States except for the Pacific Northwest. Overall, XBB.1.5 represents 75% of all COVID cases in the US now. So far, there are no new variants pushing out XBB.1.5 which is good news. Reported US cases are decreasing as are hospitalizations, but there are still about 450 people dying of COVID each day in the United States.
Dr Ruth weekly #COVID #newsletter 1/14/2023
At least 65 Mill people around the world are estimated to have or had #LongCOVID. For mild COVID infections 10%-30% will get long COVID, 50%-70% of hospitalized people will have long COVID and 10 -12% of vaccinated people will get Long COVID. The most common ages for getting long COVID is between age 36 and 50 years and more than 90% of long COVID happen after mild acute COVID infections.
Archival link to my excerpts
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@LongCovidPharmD has a massive survey for #LongHaulers of all stripes: #PwME, #mecfs, #LongCovid. It's looking at a large number of treatments and how effective they've been (or not!). She's broken it into sections to ease the load. Please contribute your experience!
Helpful article from the New York Times:
Do Rapid Antigen #COVID Tests Still Work?
https://buff.ly/3XHCvxj
Yes, if you use them correctly and repeat tests after 48 hours.
Shows when when you are contagious.
Still accurate with newer variants.
If negative test and higher risk, get a PCR test.
New study:
With rapid antigen tests, it is best to test people with
symptomatic COVID infections twice 48 hours apart (93.4% sensitivity)
asymptomatic COVID three times at 48 hour intervals to get 79% sensitivity.
Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD
Eve Bloomgarden, MD
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Garth Coghlan
