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Yale Looks At Vaccine Effects on COVID Long Haulers

14Dec

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Yale Looks At Vaccine Effects on COVID Long Haulers

Fatigue, shortness of breath, difficulties concentrating, sleep problems, anxiety and depression are the most typical symptoms in long COVID patients. And those issues endure for months or even years after contracting the virus. Dr. Akiko Iwasaki is a member of the Yale COVID Recovery Study's research team. It's expected that many more people will be able to benefit from the study in the future. "We've been monitoring a dozen individuals so far. We're still following up on others, because this study is a longitudinal study where we do the To read more, Click Here

100 Million Suffer From COVID Long Haulers?

13Dec

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100 Million Suffer From COVID Long Haulers?

A new study has found a surprisingly high number of people suffering from long-haul Covid. Approximately 43% of people infected with the virus have experienced long-term side effects. A recent study published in the Medrxiv preprint journal assessed the prevalence of long Covid and its most common symptoms globally. According to Medrxiv, around ninety million individuals across the globe are suffering from long COVID, with over two hundred distinct residual symptoms. There is still a lot of uncertainty surrounding why people are enduring long COVID for periods ranging from 12 weeks to even years after their initial COVID-19 infection. To read more, Click Here

13Dec

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Montana Give Hope To COVID Long Haulers

COVID patients are still reporting strange smells or tastes, persistently low oxygen levels, severe brain fog, memory loss, heart irregularities, digestive difficulties, and limb numbness or burning 10 years after treatment. Even mental and emotional anguish, rash, hair loss, and numerous additional symptoms linked to multiple organ systems have been recognized as constant worry following a COVID infection. In Montana, doctors at Benefis Hospital's Post COVID Recovery Program in Great Falls look for a variety of factors when examining medical history during intake appointments for COVID long-haulers, a growing group of patients who have symptoms that persist beyond 12 weeks after the initial infection. To read more, Click Here

Women More Likely To Suffer From Long Haulers?

13Dec

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Women More Likely To Suffer From Long Haulers?

The Mayo Clinic recently released a new study that found that women are more prone to have long-term COVID-19 symptoms, which might last anywhere from one month to a year or more. According to the findings of this research, 75% of the participants were women who exhibited long-haulers. According to previous research, women have stronger immune responses to viruses in general. So what does this signify?-- Researchers discovered that the active immune response aided them get through the early phase of COVID infection better than males, making them more likely to stay away from the hospital. They believe that the body's immune system remains constantly fighting the virus once it To read more, Click Here

11Dec

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Biden’s Vaccine Mandates Defeated

The Senate on Thursday passed a bill to repeal Joe Biden's requirement that private companies compel employees to get vaccinated against Covid-19 or be tested for it on a regular basis. Even if the measure did pass in the House, Biden would reject it. To read more, Click Here

11Dec

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New York Issues Indoor Mask Mandate

New York Governor Kathy Hochul has announced a new temporary indoor mask requirement, but one county leader says he won't be enforcing it. The regulation, which will be in place from Monday, December 13, until at least January 15, 2022, states that New Yorkers must wear a mask in all indoor public areas unless businesses meet a vaccination threshold. According to a press release, the governor is attempting to anticipate a "winter surge" due to three factors: increased instances, reduced hospital capacity, and low vaccination rates in certain regions. To read more, Click Here

Omicron More Contagious Than Delta, WHO Says

11Dec

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Omicron More Contagious Than Delta, WHO Says

The World Health Organization announced on Friday that the Covid omicron variant has been discovered in 38 countries, up from 23 two days ago. Early data suggest the strain is more contagious than delta. Omicron has 30 mutations in the spike protein, which binds to human cells and is the method of transmission. According to the WHO, several of these changes increase transmissibility and allow immune protection to be evaded. To read more, Click Here

30Nov

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WHO Update on Omicron

The World Health Organization has designated the variant B.1.1.529 a variant of concern, dubbed Omicron, on the recommendation of the Technical Advisory Group for Virus Evolution (TAG-VE). This decision was made based on the TAG-VE's findings that Omicron contains several variations that may have an impact on how it spreads. To read more, Click Here

30Nov

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Omicron Was In Europe, First?

On Tuesday, the Dutch health authorities revealed that they had discovered a second strain of the Omicron variant of coronavirus in samples dating back as long as 11 days, implying that it was already spreading throughout Western Europe before the first cases were identified in southern Africa. According to a study conducted by the European Centre for Disease Prevention & Control, traces of Ebola existed in five people who arrived from South Africa between Friday and Monday. To read more, Click Here

30Nov

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What We Know About The Omicron Variant

In mid-November, South African scientists (which have a robust genetic-sequencing capability) discovered a new coronavirus variant, which the WHO subsequently named Omicron. The WHO has labeled Omicron a "variant of concern," joining previous strains. To be labeled a "variant of concern," a variant must satisfy one or more of the following three diagnostic criteria: essentially, it must be more transmissible, more severe (or different in symptoms), or less effective than previously available vaccines and medicines. To read more, Click Here