Articles for Long Covid

Black adults with long COVID report higher levels of hopelessness and suicidal thoughts
2 days, 15 hours ago

Black adults with long COVID report higher levels of hopelessness and suicidal thoughts

Salon  

Black adults living with long COVID pointed to challenges with their physical health – rather than their mental health – when asked to describe their long-COVID symptoms. In other words, while participants clearly explained how long COVID impaired their physical health, they were less likely to attribute their recent mental health struggles to any issues stemming from their experiences of …

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How the risk of long covid continues to affect lives
1 week ago

How the risk of long covid continues to affect lives

Live Mint  

Three years ago, Andrea Vanek was studying to be an arts and crafts teacher when spells of dizziness and heart palpitations suddenly started to make it impossible for her to even take short walks. “We know that long covid is a big problem,” said Anita Jain, from the WHO's Health Emergencies Programme. About six percent of people infected by coronavirus …

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Brain inflammation may be the reason behind muscle fatigue after infection and injury
1 week ago

Brain inflammation may be the reason behind muscle fatigue after infection and injury

Raw Story  

Infectious or chronic diseases such as long COVID, Alzheimer’s disease and traumatic brain injury can cause inflammation in the brain, or neuroinflammation, that weakens muscles. Neuroinflammation and muscle fatigue Neuroinflammation results when your central nervous system – the brain and spine – activates its own immune system to protect itself against infection, toxins, neurodegeneration and traumatic injury. Conversations between brain …

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Five years on from the pandemic, long COVID keeps lives on hold
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1 week ago

Five years on from the pandemic, long COVID keeps lives on hold

Raw Story  

Three years ago, Andrea Vanek was studying to be an arts and crafts teacher when spells of dizziness and heart palpitations suddenly started to make it impossible for her to even take short walks. "We know that long COVID is a big problem," said Anita Jain, from the WHO's Health Emergencies Programme. Long COVID, she said, has turned her "life …

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Why conditions like chronic fatigue syndrome and long COVID are still so mysterious
2 weeks, 1 day ago

Why conditions like chronic fatigue syndrome and long COVID are still so mysterious

Salon  

In modern-day culture, it’s common to complain about being tired. But for some people, being extremely tired is just one symptom of a disease that’s increased in awareness since the COVID-19 pandemic that can severely impact everyday activities: myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome. “The name chronic fatigue syndrome does not reflect people's symptoms as chronic fatigue is not the main feature …

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No extra money for Long Covid research will "set patients back"
2 weeks, 4 days ago

No extra money for Long Covid research will "set patients back"

Dutch News  

Patient organisations have said they are worried MPs will vote against a €21 million investment in clinical research into Long Covid symptoms on Thursday. PostCovidNL and Long Covid Nederland said the additional money is needed to provide a scientific base for treatment with existing medications which can alleviate the symptoms of some 500,000 sufferers in the short term. But PostCovid …

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Long Covid study finds teenagers suffered with symptoms for more than two years
2 weeks, 5 days ago

Long Covid study finds teenagers suffered with symptoms for more than two years

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Long Covid symptoms Here is the ONS’s list of self-reported long Covid symptoms in the …

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Covid virus remains in skull for years after infection
2 weeks, 5 days ago

Covid virus remains in skull for years after infection

India Today  

A study by German researchers has revealed that SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the Covid-19 pandemic, can remain in the skull and meninges for years after infection. Researchers from Helmholtz Munich and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat discovered that the virus’s spike protein remains in the brain’s protective layers, the meninges, and the skull’s bone marrow for up to four years. Professor Ali Ert¼rk, …

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People with Long Covid work far fewer hours compared to before their infection
3 weeks, 2 days ago

People with Long Covid work far fewer hours compared to before their infection

NL Times  

People suffering from Long Covid have much less paid employment than before they got infected. The Erasmus MC hospital in Rotterdam collaborated with C-support, an organization that supports people with lengthy complaints from a coronavirus infection, to publish a report about research that was conducted over two years involving 7,750 people with long Covid. Long Covid has also implications for …

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Long COVID patients push to see federal research refocused on treatments
4 weeks ago

Long COVID patients push to see federal research refocused on treatments

NPR  

Long COVID patients push to see federal research refocused on treatments toggle caption Sarah Boden for NPR Erica Hayes, 40, hasn't felt healthy since November 2020 when she first fell ill with COVID. "It's unconscionable that more than four years since this began, we still don't have one FDA- approved drug," says Meighan Stone, executive director of Long COVID Campaign, …

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Long Fatigue: The exhaustion that lingers after an infection
1 month ago

Long Fatigue: The exhaustion that lingers after an infection

BBC  

Long Fatigue: The exhaustion that lingers after an infection Getty Images Before long Covid there was post-viral fatigue – a mysterious set of illnesses caused by other infections. Now it is long Covid which has opened a new window into the study of post-viral fatigue – a similar illness of persistent exhaustion which some people experience after recovering from other …

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My 'Long Covid' turned out to be incurable lung cancer - even though I've never touched a cigarette in my life
1 month, 2 weeks ago

My 'Long Covid' turned out to be incurable lung cancer - even though I've never touched a cigarette in my life

Daily Mail  

A mother of-three has revealed the unlikely symptoms of her deadly lung cancer — which didn't include a cough. Devastatingly, the scans revealed a 'mass' in her left lung, which was later found to be non-small cell lung cancer — the most common type of the disease. Melanie Erwin, 57, from London, pictured with her partner Sarah, 39, believed she …

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Solange Says She’s Living With This ‘Debilitating’ Condition — And Diagnoses Are Rising
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Solange Says She’s Living With This ‘Debilitating’ Condition — And Diagnoses Are Rising

Huff Post  

Kate Green via Getty Images Solange Knowles opened up on social media about living with POTS, an automatic nervous system disorder. Solange Knowles recently shared that she’s been living with “debilitating” and “confusing” symptoms of Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome after model Shaun Ross posted on social media last month that he developed the condition after experiencing long COVID. Dr. Amesh …

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Opinion: Don’t be stupid: Skipping your COVID booster could reduce your IQ
2 months, 1 week ago

Opinion: Don’t be stupid: Skipping your COVID booster could reduce your IQ

LA Times  

Many people know that COVID infections might lead to short-term “brain fog,” but studies raise the prospect of cognitive deficits that can last for years. Participants who had long COVID — that is, with symptoms that lasted more than 12 weeks — had the equivalent of a 6-point IQ loss on average, and those who had been “admitted to the …

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10,000 Long Covid patients on benefits, more may follow
2 months, 1 week ago

10,000 Long Covid patients on benefits, more may follow

Dutch News  

Some four years after the beginning of the Covid pandemic some 10,000 Long Covid sufferers are living on benefits because they are unable to work or work fulltime, figures from state benefits agency UWV have shown. Some 9,746 people are on invalidity benefit because of complications following an infection while another 1,246 have health problems associated with Long Covid but …

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10,000 Long Covid patients on benefits, more may follow
2 months, 1 week ago

10,000 Long Covid patients on benefits, more may follow

Dutch News  

Some four years after the beginning of the Covid pandemic some 10,000 Long Covid sufferers are living on benefits because they are unable to work or work fulltime, figures from state benefits agency UWV have shown. Some 9,746 people are on invalidity benefit because of complications following an infection while another 1,246 have health problems associated with Long Covid but …

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All eyes on XEC: Why COVID sleuths are paying attention to this variant
2 months, 2 weeks ago

All eyes on XEC: Why COVID sleuths are paying attention to this variant

Salon  

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. So you’ve got something out there that can really help protect people from both acute and long term problems, but we’ve got very poor uptake, and I think it’s because, again, we keep going through these surges, and it’s become kind of background noise to a lot of people.” Adams notes that …

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For kids with long COVID, "back to school" often means not returning at all
2 months, 2 weeks ago

For kids with long COVID, "back to school" often means not returning at all

Salon  

In January 2022, Jennifer Robertson’s now 11-year-old son, Fergus, developed long COVID, a condition in which the symptoms of COVID-19 linger for months or even years. “We feel we will never heal from this as long as schools have no ventilation, open windows, air purifiers, and policies that children and staff can come to school while actively positive with COVID," …

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California’s COVID surge is finally over. But expect another spike in the coming months
2 months, 3 weeks ago

California’s COVID surge is finally over. But expect another spike in the coming months

LA Times  

California’s protracted summer COVID surge has finally ended, a welcome window that provides a key opportunity to prepare for yet another expected resurgence of transmission this autumn and winter, doctors say. “We have an updated COVID vaccine, an updated flu vaccine, an RSV vaccine — all of those can help protect ourselves, our families, our communities.” California New COVID subvariant …

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Early signs California’s COVID surge is peaking: ‘It’s not gone away. It’s just lower’
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Early signs California’s COVID surge is peaking: ‘It’s not gone away. It’s just lower’

LA Times  

Dr. Gaurav Shinde gives Giti Noroozi, 85, her vaccinations for COVID and flu at the Walgreens pharmacy in Torrance on Thursday. But for the week ending Aug. 31, the most recent data available, California’s coronavirus sewage levels fell back to “high,” according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “We’re seeing, I would say, somewhat of a cresting …

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Mice study claims to have found long COVID’s ‘real’ perpetrator
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Mice study claims to have found long COVID’s ‘real’ perpetrator

The Hindu  

In scientific circles, the SARS-CoV-2 virus is well-known as a vasculopathic agent: a damager of blood vessels. Using a mouse model of COVID-19, the researchers showed that fibrinogen and fibrin actively bind to the spike protein of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and that this relationship drives the inflammation and the complications in the lungs and the brain. Not related to vaccines …

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The new COVID vaccine is here. Why these are the best times to get immunized
3 months, 3 weeks ago

The new COVID vaccine is here. Why these are the best times to get immunized

LA Times  

With the new COVID-19 vaccinations for the 2024–25 season arriving in California and across the nation, an important question arises: When is the best time to get the shot? “Getting vaccinated now probably gives you the maximum amount of protection that you can get against what’s currently circulating, and that will last for several months, at least,” he said. “Right …

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As COVID wave wallops California, new vaccines arrive this week. Will it be a turning point?
3 months, 3 weeks ago

As COVID wave wallops California, new vaccines arrive this week. Will it be a turning point?

LA Times  

New COVID-19 vaccines are expected to be available as soon as this week, a promising development amid California’s potent and enduring summer wave of the disease. “I have a tremendous empathy, having seen people struggle with long COVID in their 30s and 40s, people who you might think were otherwise low-risk,” Dr. Peter Marks, the FDA’s vaccine chief, said Friday. …

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Long COVID is a "public health crisis for kids," experts say
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Long COVID is a "public health crisis for kids," experts say

Salon  

For years, public health experts have said that COVID-19 infections in children are “mild.” According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the most common symptoms of COVID in kids are a fever and cough. “This is one of the first large-scale national studies to do research related to long COVID across the entire lifespan, with a particular …

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