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Studies show how vaccinated and unvaccinated people are suffering long term effects from COVID-19. Doctors in San Francisco state that both groups, vaccinated or not, will suffer from lingering symptoms, but it seems to be more severe for those without vaccinations.

A study on fully vaccinated Israeli healthcare workers who contracted COVID-19 showed full immunity did not guarantee they would not get sick with the virus. The study also found lingering symptoms even in those that were fully vaccinated resulted in a handful of breakthrough cases among the group. Almost 40% of healthcare professionals vaccinated against COVID contracted it, with about 20% lingering with symptoms for over six weeks. Experts are recommending that more research is needed but they concede that the vaccine isn’t always 100% effective and a full cure could be difficult to create. To read the full article, Click Here

Doctors in Kansas City are seeing patients with CVID-19 and the Delta variant who are initially showing little to no signs of illness, but later exhibit severe problems. The doctors point out that taking the vaccine can sometimes prevent long hauler symptoms or side effects from occurring. However, they are noticing that some people in their 20's and 30's are becoming Long Haulers. To read the full article, Click Here

New York City is mandating that adults provide evidence of COVID-19 vaccination to enter certain indoor businesses — including all indoor restaurants, entertainment venues and gyms. Mayor de Blasio announced a new citywide mandate that will be called the ” Key to NYC Pass,” which effectively makes it mandatory for all New Yorkers to have annual access to buildings. To read about the new mandate, Click Here

On July 31, it was reported that as many as 17 people have committed suicide in the state of Kerala due to financial crisis caused by the Covid-19 lockdown in the last six weeks. Of these 17 cases, two were double suicides and 50 occurred from June 20 to July 31, out of which 50 were due to financial troubles. The Planning Board estimates that the government would need Rs.7,300 crores to provide aid to those who are unemployed because of Covid. The transfer would allow anyone who lost their job due to Covid an allowance of Rs.10,000 per month for a period of up to one year. To read more, Click Here

Multi-disciplinary teams at Stanford Medical are working together to treat those suffering from COVID Long Haulers. Research is showing that 30% of patients have and will suffer from lingering symptoms, illustrating a need for support in treatment. Stanford Health Care has opened a clinic specifically for COVID-19 patients called the Post-Acute COVID-19 Syndrome Clinic or PACS, as physicians treating and researching COVID Long Haulers realized there was a need. To read about what researchers are doing at Stanford, Click Here

Mental health issues are rarely visible and in Colorado, the suicide rate in 2019 was 22.1 per 100,000 people, compared with an average of 13.1 for the entire country. Locally, 15 percent of teenagers ages 12 to 17 and 8.5 percent of adults reported having a major depressive episode during that same year. Little over 15 percent of residents said they had poor mental health and the outbreak of COVID-19 seemed to make things worse. The outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 has had a significant affect on everything, including mental health, not only in Colorado but the whole country. It's triggered "anxiety and depression, ballooned fears, and forced us to isolate ourselves from one another." Kids have missed out on major developmental milestones while adults lost their jobs and businesses To re...

The emergence of COVID-19 in the United States caught many policymakers, providers, and doctors by surprise. They responded to this challenge by reviewing existing basic science and clinical data with an eye towards identifying treatments that might be potentially effective against the virus. Both novel as well as repurposed therapies were explored through clinical trials. One such treatment was Ivermectin and a majority of the clinical trials for ivermectin had excellent results. Large-scale “natural experiments” were conducted to see if patients got better and it was observed that their patients improved as a result. To see the results, Click Here

The Watson Clinic in Florida has a waiting list of six months for those suffering from chronic COVID long haulers. However, the wait time may be worth it as there is little research available in this field and treatment is scarce. The clinic was opened back in 2020 and they treated over 200 patients with 40 of those being discharged. Doctors and interns are working together to identify symptoms that can be properly diagnosed for long-term care. To read the full article, Click Here

COVID Long Haulers; those who have suffered with COVID symptoms for over a year, are now protected under the federal law under American with Disabilities Act. The Justice department and Department of Health and Human Services passed a guidance out on July 26th to classify long COVID as a disability. This classification give relief and opens up benefits to those afflicted. To read the full article, Click Here