#LongCovid
@mark_ungrin RT @joeolivermd
> I feel like this could impact staffing.
> @CIDRAP
> Study finds 27% rate of long COVID in infected health workers
> Multiple #COVID19 infections were predictive of developing #LongCOVID
> http://ow.ly/i3Bn50OGca8
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/infection-control-and-hospital-epidemiology/article/abs/risk-factors-for-long-coronavirus-disease-2019-long-covid-among-healthcare-personnel-brazil-20202022/AA01F17E1C8A33C07457914E63AB3EEE
https://twitter.com/joeolivermd/status/1665880704125640706
@saskboy RT @TheLancet
> Taking a common diabetes medication after testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 reduces risk of developing #longCOVID by 40%, new study in
@TheLancetInfDis finds https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(23)00299-2/fulltext
https://twitter.com/TheLancet/status/1666936644149161985
#Servicetweet #Gesundheit #SARSCoV2
➡️ Gute Neuigkeit von der Medikamenten-Front
➡️ "Metformin" reduziert laut randomisierter Studie Long Covid um 40 %
"Großer Tag für die Wirkungen von Metformin auf Covid —40 % Reduzierung von #LongCovid in randomisierter Studie, 1/3
Thursday June 15 Lunch & Learn – Virtual Event
https://batemanhornecenter.org/event/lunch-learn-virtual-event-40/
1:30 PM ET/6:30 PM in Great Britain & Ireland
Find the time in your time zone here:
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=June+15+online+event&iso=20230615T1130&p1=220&ah=2
Presentation Topic: “The Things I’ve Learned and the Ways I’ve Grown With This Condition”
#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #MyalgicE #PwME @mecfs @cfs #longhaulers #LongCovid #Covidlonghaulers #PwLC #PostCovidSyndrome #postcovid #postcovid19 #LC @longcovid
Editorial post from Lancet on the Metformin paper I posted yesterday.
The therapeutic validation of #longCOVID
"Therefore, if confirmed, the findings from the study by Bramante and colleagues are profound and potentially landmark on two distinct counts."
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(23)00355-9/fulltext
#IDMastodon @thelancetinfdis @bmj_company
Metformin reduces the risk of developing #longcovid in overweight or obese patients who had not previously #Longcovid by 40%, study finds and Limitations to the study include that the trial excluded those with a body mass index under 25 and those younger than 30 years and so it is not known if the findings could be generalised to those populations.
https://www.bmj.com/content/381/bmj.p1306
Shout out to the medical profession! No way government could have convinced the public that it's ok to get a deadly, disabling disease without your avid help! Way to go! #doctors #MedicareForAll #covid #CovidIsNotOver #CovidInquiry #LongCOVID
@ThunderHoneySnow Not surprising to me. Roughly half of Long Covid patients end up with ME/CFS.
Past studies have shown a low quality of life (QoL) for ME/CFS patients.
Here's a study from 2015 looking at QoL in ME/CFS compared to other illnesses. (image attached)
Free, professionally-facilitated online support group on Tuesday, June 20
Topic: When the Patient is the Caregiver
https://batemanhornecenter.org/event/online-support-group-49/
3 PM EST/8 PM in Great Britain & Ireland
Find the time in your time zone here:
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=June+20+online+support+group&iso=20230620T13&p1=220&ah=1
#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #MyalgicE #PwME @mecfs @cfs #longhaulers #LongCovid #Covidlonghaulers #PwLC #PostCovidSyndrome #postcovid #postcovid19 #LC @longcovid
Tell us: have you been diagnosed with long Covid? #TheGuardian #LongCovid https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jun/09/tell-us-have-you-been-diagnosed-with-long-covid?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Flanders (Belgium) funded the development of a search engine for health topics. Its goal is to have people use it instead of google, because 'google gives scary and inaccurate results'.
Tried looking up #MEcfs and it just gives an overview about tiredness, which claims that many people heal from ME/cfs over time & you need to keep exercising & do CBT. Sigh.
Surprised that #LongCOVID has an article! It mentions the need to rest & saving up energy. Even the risk for blood clots is mentioned. 😳
Long covid can impair quality of life more than advanced cancers
Health-related quality of life scores were also lower than those of people with advanced metastatic cancers, such as stage 4 lung cancer. Overall, the impact of long Covid on the daily activities of patients was worse than that for stroke patients and comparable to people with Parkinson’s disease.
#LongCovid #CovidIsNotOver #Covid19 #MaskUp #WearAMask
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jun/08/long-covid-impact-quality-of-life-cancer-study
"Many people with long Covid have a lower health-related quality of life than people with some advanced cancers, research suggests."
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jun/08/long-covid-impact-quality-of-life-cancer-study
New study indicates that the fatigue caused by Long Covid is more debilitating than that caused by some cancers.
#Metformin ist spottbillig, seit Jahrzehnten bekannt als Diabetesmedikament und es reduziert das Risiko an #LongCovid zu erkranken, wenn es während der akuten #COVID19-Erkrankung eingenommen wird.
Das zeigt diese gestern im Lancet erschienene Studie. Im Vergleich zu Placebo war die Wahrscheinlichkeit, in den 10 Monaten nach der Infektion die Diagnose LC zu bekommen um 40% verringert. Getestet wurde dies bei übergewichtigen und adipösen Personen (BMI ab 25) ohne Diabetikern.
Tolle Sache!
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(23)00299-2/fulltext
Good news for folks dealing with #LongCovid Metformin may significantly help. "Outpatient treatment of COVID-19 and incidence of post-COVID-19 condition over 10 months (COVID-OUT): a multicentre, randomised, quadruple-blind, parallel-group, phase 3 trial." #COVID #COVID19 #Metformin #PeerReview #PeerReviewed #Research #pandemic https://doi.org/10.1016/s1473-3099(23)00299-2
Could Neuro fusion from #SarsCoV2 infection caused “Brainfog” the troublings & lingerings symptoms (headaches, trouble concentrating, and forgetfulness) in #LongCovid or #neurocovid
📌 https://www.science.org/content/article/could-fused-neurons-explain-covid-19-s-brain-fog?utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DailyLatestNews&utm_content=alert&et_rid=100870224&et_cid=4764446
📌 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03491-6
#LongCovid #Fatigue Can Be More Debilitating Than These Diseases - HuffPost https://apple.news/AOjky9GO2Ssq21HgIyNgbtQ
Could this be the cause of #longCOVID? Here's what the science says - SBS News https://apple.news/AeS5kA4AkSryjKJBRBi9jTw
1,131,439 Americans Dead From COVID 19
2023-June-09 Friday
846 Americans Dead Last Week
U.S. - 16.30% of global pandemic deaths
U.S. - 4.19% of the global population
#US #USA #America #Americans #COVID19 #Covid #Corona #CoronaVirus #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborn #Pandemic #PandemicIsNotOver #Mask #Masks #WearAMask #Death #Deaths #AmericanDeaths #Vaccine #Vaccines #silentsunday #montag #sunday #Friday #SilentSunday #Monday #LongCovid #news #USNews #politics #USPolitics
RT @EUREGHA: Some highlights from the #EU4Health consultation @EU_Health.
🩺#healthworkforce,
💻#digitalskills
🫴#patientsempowerement
😷#longcovid
🚀#digitalisation and #AI
🛡️cancer prevention and #diagnosis
@BeWellProjectEU @EU_Health #Regions4Health https://t.co/LX4r4Gic5L
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Health/status/1667076849745244160
If a medication can reduce the incidence of Long Covid, this is further evidence that Long Covid is a real medical condition:
"If a new disease has been sufficiently well characterised by clinicians so that it can be successfully modified by a therapy compared with placebo, then the entity must, from a practical standpoint, truly exist. Put differently, a treatment can only be effective if there is something to treat."
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(23)00355-9/fulltext?s=09
And some thoughts on the paper by some experts (including one you may recognise) here
And here's a link to the full paper for those who are interested
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(23)00299-2/fulltext
So here's the interesting #LongCovid news I promised you.
The study isn't perfect, but it's still pretty good, and I think this is a really important step forward in our knowledge about how to reduce the risk of LC.
I am so relentlessly optimistic about #mecfs and #longcovid. Not only do I reckon the current wave of research will lead to treatments, but I reckon there will be spillover benefits to fatigue in other illnesses.
I'm not optimistic it'll be fast. It won't be done next year, or even in five years. But in 20 years we will have something to show, I believe.
Pretty exciting: now published in The Lancet, #Covid patients who took metformin had a 41% lower incidence of #LongCovid than controls—and if treatment was initiated within three days of symptoms, the reduction was 63%!
Caveats: study population was all over 30 with BMI over 25, so may not hold for other groups.
Still pretty major news, especially as metformin is a very affordable med. Right now in the US, without insurance the script is $4 at Walmart.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(23)00299-2/fulltext
#LongCovid Shows A Card?
Interesting commentary on the Metformin studies that just came out.
"this effect against a placebo control really shows us that there is something there. Long Covid is looking less like a cloudy mass of speculation and shoulder-shrugging, and more like a problem that medical science can start to unravel, using the tools we already have"
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/long-covid-shows-card
h/t @graydon
Low-cost drug Metformin shows very good results in treatment for COVID and Long COVID:
⬇️ 58% reduction in COVID-related hospitalizations through 28-days
⬇️42% reductin in ER vistis/hospitalizations within 14-days
⬇️41% reduction in #LongCovid
Full paper:
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(23)00299-2/fulltext?utm_campaign=trials23&utm_content=251849613&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&hss_channel=tw-27013292
Outpatient treatment of #COVID19 & incidence of post-#COVID19 condition over 10 months (COVID-OUT): a multicentre, randomised, quadruple-blind, parallel-group, phase 3 trial
N=1126 w. 9 mo followup
"Outpatient treatment with metformin reduced #longCOVID incidence by about 41%, with an absolute reduction of 4·1%, compared with placebo."
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(23)00299-2/fulltext
Nice young man cutting my fabric at the fabric store coughed and sniffled one too many times for my comfort (I was uncomfortable at 2. There were more).
Me: masked
He: unmasked
Got home...
#Mask filter in garbage. (It was a fresh one too)
Fabric in paper bag outside on deck
Mask (#Flomask) in UV sanitizer
Metformin reduces SARS-CoV-2 in a Phase 3 Randomized Placebo Controlled Clinical Trial
"metformin had a 42% reduction in ER visits/hospitalizations/death through 14 days; a 58% reduction in hospitalizations/death through 28 days, and a 42% reduction in #LongCOVID through 10 months"
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.06.06.23290989v1
Metformin but not Ivermectin or fluvoxamine effective in reducing incidence of Long Covid.
#COVID #LongCovid https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(23)00299-2/fulltext
Dr. Francisco Mera y Dr. Jaime Acevedo explican #LongCovid
#AIREyVIDA #las7capas
Podcast 243 3a Temporada
Additional info:
Could fused neurons explain COVID-19’s ‘brain fog’?
Studies in dish suggest SARS-CoV-2 causes brain cells to stick together, but more research is needed to determine the significance
https://www.science.org/content/article/could-fused-neurons-explain-covid-19-s-brain-fog
Research article: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adg2248
"While some viral brain infections can be deadly and others cause inflammation, this study has found yet another outcome, where the host brain cells are fused, possibly causing brain dysfunction," said Ittner.
The fused brain cells can hide the virus from the immune system, which may explain why the SARS-CoV-2 virus can be found in the brains of long COVID patients months after they were first infected, researchers say."
Counties by adult hospital capacity (darkest counties on map above):
⒈ Warren, NY—135%
⒉ Wise, VA—122%
⒊ Smyth, VA—112%
⒋ Yuma, AZ—111%
⒌ Boone, KY—107%
⒍ Bulloch, GA—104%
⒎ Russell, AL—104%
⒏ Dearborn, IN—102%
⒐ St. Mary's, MD—101%
⒑ Shenandoah, VA—101%
#ThisIsOurPolio #hospitals #LongCovid #CovidIsNotOver #nurses #MassDisablingEvent #CovidIsAirborne #BringBackMasks
Some 64 (-2) counties ≥ 100% capacity per HHS data.
Reporting ≥ 90%: 206 (+22)—over 8½% of those with any capacity. Includes surge and overflow beds: near full can mean E/Rs with day-long wait times.
For counties w/ ICUs—some one in six are full or near full.
#ThisIsOurPolio #hospitals #LongCovid #CovidIsNotOver #nurses #MassDisablingEvent #CovidIsAirborne #BringBackMasks #dataviz #datavis
![Map: Adult Hospital & ICU Capacity by County
Data: U.S. Dept of Health & Human Services, American National Standards Institute
Updated: June 8, 2023
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Shows a color scale of 7-day average adult inpatient beds occupied over 7-day average adult inpatient beds staffed for 48 contiguous states only. Scale runs from black (well over 140%), to purple (120%), to red (80%), to orange (50%), to yellow (10%). Counties for which no hospitals/beds are reported are represented by colored hatch marks, reflecting state-level reported capacity.
Patterns of black circles represent counties where adult ICUs are near full; circles are dotted where adult ICUs are entirely full. Sparse grey dots show areas where no ICU beds are reported.
Most of the map is dark purple-orange, with splotches of lighter orange-yellow in the interior, mostly in the Rockies and lower Midwest. Black indicators heavily pepper the map.](https://assets.toot.cafe/cache/media_attachments/files/110/510/583/153/686/063/small/287137cf87ece1ae.jpg)
Verschmelzende Zellen und andere Dinge, die #COVID19 im Gehirn anstellen kann.
Kurzer Überblick über drei neue Studien.
Im Blog #AllCoronavirusesAreBastards
https://allcoronavirusesarebastards.substack.com/p/verschmelzende-zellen-und-andere
I'm encountering a disturbing amount of covid minimizing and denial on here. Anyone else noticing this?
MFer blocked me immediately after I replied with this factual, well-sourced post.
https://mastodon.social/@pixplz/110510167016495011
#Covid #Covid19 #CovidIsNotOver #WearAMask #LongCovid #LongCovidKids @longcovid @novid
I finally understand why I'm sleeping all the time.
All the progress I made is gone.
#LongCovid is such where if you do not rest when you need to rest you will lose ground around you
And I have not been allowed to rest because of housing insecurity.
I am no longer able to fight my situation. All I can do is sleep.
💔
"…many were seriously ill and had fatigue scores worse than or similar to people with cancer-related anaemia or severe kidney disease.
Their health-related quality of life scores were also lower than those of people with advanced metastatic cancers, such as stage 4 lung cancer. Overall, the impact of long Covid on the daily activities of patients was worse than that for stroke patients and comparable to people with Parkinson’s disease."
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jun/08/long-covid-impact-quality-of-life-cancer-study
COVID-19 could cause 'brain cell fusion', study finds
'Long Covid' could be caused by the fusion of brain cells, a study involving Australian researchers has claimed.
#COVID19 #LongCOVID
https://www.9news.com.au/national/covid19-study-macquarie-university-longterm-neuron-damage/aebf6238-e2df-4bda-916c-f8287ccb7ae4
From #MEAction:
"We were thrilled to see the Boston Globe run a front-page story about ME/CFS and Long COVID recently, thanks to the hard work of our New Hampshire State Chapter, which pitched the story and directed journalists to ME experts.
Our MEAction New Hampshire chapter did an amazing job pitching … a story about how ME fits into the story of Long COVID, which they published on their front page above the fold!"
#LongCovid can impair quality of life more than stage 4 lung cancer, study says
Yet ppl keep saying its over and no big deal to catch it 3x a year.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jun/08/long-covid-impact-quality-of-life-cancer-study
"Long COVID can impair quality of life more than advanced cancers, study says"
#COVID19 #LongCOVID
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jun/08/long-covid-impact-quality-of-life-cancer-study#:~:text=They%20found%20that%20many%20were,as%20stage%204%20lung%20cancer
Was für ein tolles Podcast-Interview von @erictopol mit Hannah Davis. Sie ist die Erstautorin eines der wichtigsten Reviews zu #LongCovid, das er mit ihr publizierte. Das Bemerkenswerte: Sie ist selbst von LC betroffen und selber keine Medizinerin oder Biowissenschafterin. Er ist einer der meist publizierenden Mediziner der Welt.
Ein ungemein respektvolles Gespräch über ihre Krankengeschichte, über den mühsamen Weg, gute Forschung zum Thema zu initiieren, über das Stigma von LC selbst in den Forschungsgesellschaften.
https://erictopol.substack.com/p/hannah-davis-a-360-on-long-covid
Ending this short thread with a few links with more resources:
#MEAction - "Stop. Rest. Pace."
https://www.meaction.net/stoprestpace/
CDC - "What is ME/CFS?"
https://www.cdc.gov/me-cfs/about/index.html
Edit: Video is from the Bateman Horne Center - https://batemanhornecenter.org/
#MEcfs #LongCovid #PEM #StopRestPace #PwME #PwLC #CDC #BatemanHorne
A few more lines:
"Graded exercise - meaning fixed or preset advances in frequency duration intensity - will only make post-exertional malaise worse. Post-exertional malaise is a worsening of symptoms after exertion. Exertion can include physical, orthostatic, cognitive, emotional, sensory, and environmental stressors. It's the hallmark feature of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis or ME/CFS and it's also being seen in a subset of patients who are recovering from COVID"
Important lines from a video titled, "Therapy for patients with PEM"
PEM/PESE (post-exertional malaise, aka, post-exertional symptom exacerbation) is a symptom of ME/CFS and Long Covid which is often misunderstood.
"The cause of post-exertional malaise (PEM) is not fully understood but it's not from deconditioning. PEM is not a psychological disorder and so reconditioning or graded exercise is not appropriate for these patients"
A comprehensive conversation on #LongCovid with Hannah Davis
https://erictopol.substack.com/p/hannah-davis-a-360-on-long-covid w/ transcript
My LongCovid anniversary is coming up. One year of this illness. One year since I did my favourite hobby, climbing.
I tested positive june 21. I most probably got infected the 16th, got ill the 19th. I feel the need to pick a date, to mark it, to recognise it. I guess it's gonna be the 21st. That moment, already quarantining to be sure, when I received my test result, was so aweful. I cried for the rest of the day. I had restricted my life so much for over three years. Yes it's a privilege that I was able to protect myself in so many ways, but it had been terrible for my mental health as well.
And now I'm just canceling my mental health altogether.
#CovidIsNotOver #LongCovid #COVID19
This misleading summary of a recent study is making the rounds:
https://johnsnowproject.org/primers/nih-study-finds-increased-risk-of-long-covid-after-reinfection/
It is based on the following paper, which it links to:
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2805540
The summary is misleading, because it claims that the risk of LongCOVID increases with each subsequent infection, something that the authors of the paper do not claim and which their data does not support. The summary conflates the concept of "proportion" and "risk." The specific relevant phrase from the paper is:
"In the Omicron cohorts, the estimated proportion of PASC positivity was greater among reinfected participants compared with participants with 1 reported infection (acute Omicron: 20% vs 9.7%; postacute Omicron: 21% vs 16%)"
You'll notice here that what is mentioned is not risk, but proportion. In other words: of those infected twice, more ended up with LongCOVID than those infected only once. However, given a constant risk of acquiring LongCOVID per-infection, that's exactly what you would expect to see. An increasing risk of LongCOVID per-infection should result in a more-than-doubling of the affected population, which would also be a more-than-doubling of the affected proportion.
Please, if you're trying to educate about COVID19, don't exaggerate the results of scientific studies, as it gives people an easy way to minimize COVID19 risks psychologically: if you're exaggerating one part of the risk, maybe you're exaggerating all of it. To be clear, the findings of this paper even without exaggeration in no way minimize LongCOVID risk! A 10% risk per-infection is NOT something that you'd want to risk even once! (10% is about the upper limit of risk-per-infection consistent with this data; the real risk could be lower and still be consistent with this data given sampling issues, but if we're being conservative about risk, we shouldn't assume it will be.)
For context, I'm someone who would desperately like to have solid info on specific LongCovid risks (although I'm not a medical professional), and I try to estimate those risks cautiously while we still don't know exactly what they are (I am statistically literate, but not a statistician). My current cautious estimate for the risk of permanent disability from COVID19 infection which is mild during the acute phase in a vaccinated individual is between 1/10 and 1/1000, which is consistent with the findings of this study. One interesting takeaway from the 10 -> 20% prevalence statistic in this paper: it implies that risk is probably not distributed mostly based on durable personal factors outside of COVID19 disease course, like genetics. After all, a 10% observed risk after one infection could mean two different things (or something in-between): it could mean that genetically, 10% of the population will definitely get LongCOVID when infected with COVID19, and the other 90% are definitely safe, or it could mean that each individual has a 10% chance per-infection, and that genetics has on influence over that. In the former scenario, you wouldn't expect any rise in proportion of people with LongCOVID after a second infection, since the genetic lottery would dictate things mostly regardless of # of infections. Seeing a rise in proportion like this implies (unsurprisingly) that we're more likely in the latter case, or towards that end of the spectrum: genetics and other durable factors might have some impact on LongCOVID risks, but they're not dominant.
Just heard. Somebody in my wider family tested +ve for Covid 10 days ago. One degree removed as I met their husband at a big funeral around the same time. I guess it's not over, then. She wasn't there and he didn't get it.
#Covid is only real when somebody you know gets it. Same for #LongCovid. #CovidIsNotOver
This test should be widespread, every doctor off or on #MedTwitter should know about it
Not enough patients know about #TeamClots or have money for tests (I’ll have to do a fundraiser to afford treatment)
This is serious, it impacts so much; keep looking #MECFS #LongCovid #pwME
I’ve been on Xarelto after a PE for 1.5 years, but felt very inflamed for 2 years
I said “I think I have microclots” then “is my daily anticoagulant enough?”
I was right: I have microclots and Xarelto wasn’t enough
Don’t give up on answers
@ai6yr - agree! My Covid feed on Mastodon, a pinned column, arises from a request for any of the hashtags #COVID #covid19 #LongCovid #pandemic & #COVIDisAirborne.
I follow @mackayim2022 but had not seen the earlier post. I rarely have time to browse the whole timeline & rely on #hashtags to filter.
#FediTips
Pediatric staffing never recovered to pre-omicron levels. Rather, one in five pediatric beds reported last May: now missing.
PICU Capacity Level (not shown): 68%.
Weekly average ~55 PICU beds were covid patients.
We're failing our kids. The emergency is over.
#ThisIsOurPolio #hospitals #LongCovid #CovidIsNotOver #nurses #MassDisablingEvent #CovidIsAirborne #BringBackMasks #dataviz #datavis
![Chart: Pediatric Capacity: United States
Data: U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Svcs
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Stacked area chart of daily 7-day averages for pediatric Unoccupied Beds, Non-Covid Beds, and Acute Covid Beds, for the period from August 2020 through June 6, 2023. Hash marks—indicating PICU beds—overlay bottom of each stacked area.
Dotted lines indicate historical and current Hospitals Surveyed (82%), Pediatric Capacity Level (66%) and Critical Staffing Level (11%). First has fallen off as psychiatric and rehabilitation hospitals have gone to once-annual reporting; second is the ratio of total occupied pediatric beds to total staffed pediatric beds, nationally; last the ratio of hospitals with pediatric beds reporting critical staffing shortages as a share of those that answered said question either 'yes' or 'no'.
Capacity was climbing toward 55K, with climbing occupancy, before plummeting to under 10K in Jan '22. Feb '22 saw gain toward 45K; above in May, before trending down to now well below 40K.](https://assets.toot.cafe/cache/media_attachments/files/110/500/500/252/248/297/small/fb8baa4e741d569d.jpg)
Critical Staffing Level drops back down to 11%—still at 2021 levels—as Hospitals Reporting recovers, somewhat.
Capacity Level has been elevated since independence from the virus was declared—as fewer and fewer professionals are available to staff hospital beds.
#ThisIsOurPolio #hospitals #LongCovid #CovidIsNotOver #nurses #MassDisablingEvent #CovidIsAirborne #BringBackMasks #dataviz #datavis
![Chart: Hospital Capacity: United States
Data: U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services
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Stacked area chart of daily 7-day averages for Unoccupied Beds, Non-Covid Beds, and Acute Covid Beds, for the period from August 2020 through Jun 6, 2023.
Hash marks overlay bottom of each stacked area—indicating ICU beds. Dotted lines indicate historical and current Hospitals Surveyed (81%), Hospital Capacity Level (74%) and Critical Staffing Level (11%). First has fallen off as psychiatric and rehabilitation hospitals have gone to once-annual reporting; second is the ratio of total occupied beds to total staffed beds, nationally; last the ratio of hospitals reporting critical staffing shortages as a share of those that answered said question either 'yes' or 'no'.
From October 2020 forward, top of the total stack trends downward. A diagonal notation along the top edge reads: "Reported staffed beds have been declining on average ~1,100 a week for ~2⅗ years."](https://assets.toot.cafe/cache/media_attachments/files/110/500/265/398/148/499/small/7fcc7141ee3216e7.jpg)
Cognitive behavioral therapy (#CBT) helps with severe #fatigue associated with #LongCOVID. The CBT addressed disrupted sleep/wake patterns, unhelpful beliefs about fatigue, low/uneven activity level, perceived lack of social support, psychological processing of COVID, fears and worries about COVID, and coping with pain.
#TWiVTLDR 7/7
This was long suspected (pretty straightforward virology) and consistently denied as a possibility by politicians.
#COVID19 #LongCovid #ViralTransmission #medicine #science #Canada #Alberta #Saskatchewan #Ontario
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2805468
You’re up to 4x as likely to develop #LongCOVID symptoms if you had #SleepApnea before infection.
#TWiVTLDR 5/
Counsel for #LongCovid sufferers at the #CovidInquiry:
"It is shocking and frankly appalling that the pillars of this Inquiry have been shaken by the Cabinet Office's continued and wholly unmerited resistance to providing unredacted disclosure ... it cannot be said honestly that it is in the public interest to only hear half the story ..."
#UKPolitics #CoverUp
More from the #CovidInquiry. Counsel representing sufferers of #LongCovid reminds the Inquiry that the Government is only ONE of the core participants:
"By claiming exceptional procedures for itself... it's one rule for them and another for everyone else... seemingly mirroring govt's approach throughout the pandemic." 🔥✊
#UKPolitics #OneRuleForThem #FuckTheTories #GTTO
The risk of #LongCovid doubles to **one person** in five after the second infection. We are talking about #Omicron variant of #SARSCoV2 here.
We are no longer operating on the precautionary principle.
#Prevention saves lives and horizons.
#WearAMask
https://zeroes.ca/@EricCarroll/110492289855422173
3/🧵
…do all those people really have no idea that they have essentially zero protection against infection, no matter how many boosters they’ve gotten? Or that the #vaccines only reduce their odds of #LongCovid by about half? Does that make the remaining half somehow acceptable to them?
A few days of doing the thousand-yard stare past all those naked snouts looking at my #Envomask #elastomeric #N95 was more than enough. Masked for every bathroom visit, the store, getting takeout, even trails.
@BlackAzizAnansi and this is why I still mask in public places. Too many folks suffering from #LongCovid and I pray I’m not one of them!
NCHS estimates of #LongCovid—based on Household Pulse Survey—provide for volatile projections.
HPS Phase 3.9 questionnaire public comment ended on Thurs: no collection dates yet.
As more and more folk experience Long Covid, fewer and fewer staff our hospitals.
#ThisIsOurPolio #CountLongCovid
#CovidIsNotOver #MassDisablingEvent
[This is first toot of a weekly thread, updated daily, providing various dataviz of ongoing #pandemic.]
Last week: https://mastodon.social/@beadsland/110454131191199211
![Chart: Estimates of Long Covid: Extrapolated to Entire U.S. Population
Data: Dept. of Health & Human Services, U.S. Census Bureau, National Center for Health Statistics
[ beadsland on Ko-fi ]
Line chart, from June 2022 to date, of:
* Reported Staffed Hospital Beds (per Million) [Down near 2K from 2.5K]
* Trendline for same (trending down)
* Experienced Long Covid for 3+ Months (45 M as of May 8)
* Living with Long Covid (16.7M)
* Activity Limitations from Long Covid (13.7M)
* Significant Limitations (4.2M)
* Experienced… — projected (+1.4M ±4.1M from May 9-June 5)
* Living with… — projected (+2.2M ±5.2M)
* Activity Limitations… — projected (+1.5M ±620K)
* Significant Limitations — projected (-160K ±830K)
Caption (in part):
The Household Pulse Survey (HPS) is an Internet questionnaire (recent sample sizes btw. 58–75K), conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau, that includes questions regarding “any symptoms lasting 3 months or longer that you did not have prior to having coronavirus or COVID-19.” It should be noted that the list of long-term symptoms*, provided for this question, may not reflect all sequelae of covid infection, e.g. systemic organ damage or increased susceptibility to subsequent infections and other adverse health outcomes.
NCHS uses HPS responses to estimate incidence of Long Covid in the adult population. For the purposes of this chart, we assume that U.S. under 18 population (22% of total) meet criteria for Long Covid at half the rate of adults....](https://cdn.masto.host/frontendsocial/cache/media_attachments/files/110/505/919/403/011/964/small/dd92e46fe6dbb22a.png)
May 2023:
Oh, and last:
There’s a major symptom of brain injury called anosognosia.
It’s a deficit of self-awareness and insight into one’s own condition — the brain cannot perceive the damage done to it, so the patient is unaware that they have sustained an injury.
— @czedwards
#tcovidii #ToxoplasmaCovidii #LongCovid #covid #covid19 #C19
Risk of #LongCovid at 10% on first infection, rising to 20% on second.
There is nothing you do voluntarily that has this level of risk. Not flying, not skydiving, not driving.
US National Institutes of Health Study Finds Increased Risk of Long Covid After Reinfection
https://johnsnowproject.org/primers/nih-study-finds-increased-risk-of-long-covid-after-reinfection/
>Study shows risk of Long Covid is very common after Omicron reinfection, but is anyone listening?
70% of household spread starts with children.
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/more-70-us-household-covid-spread-started-child-study-suggests
Studies show covid-19 contributed to 2022's surge in severe RSV cases (remember the one that caused pediatric beds shortages)
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.05.12.23289898v1
COVID-19 can cause immune damage in kids and adults, along with a flurry of other long-term chronic health problems, long Covid now estimated to be at least 10-30% of cases. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41579-022-00846-2
#LongCOVID #LongCovidKids
October 2022:
Screenshots of anecdotes sent in response to that original (October 2022) post.
Had been sitting on all this because I'd seen no one else talking about it outside of the original thread, and also to see if there'd be confirming studies later on.
Both those conditions now having been met ...
#tcovidii #ToxoplasmaCovidii #LongCovid #covid #covid19 #C19
Well there you go. The Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, with their pitiful resources, under constant threat of violence, stamped out a typhus epidemic with public education, distancing, hygiene and ISOLATING people who were sick. Somehow, they never said "Ah, well, it's super contagious so why bother trying?" Makes you want to weep, really. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2249578-how-a-jewish-ghetto-beat-a-typhus-epidemic-during-the-second-world-war/ #covid #LongCOVID #CovidIsNotOver #warsawghetto
#MEAction is doing another pillowcase thing! Must be recieved by 1 August
May 2023:
(re: SARS-CoV-2 optimizing the social conditions for its reproduction by causing brain damage)
I mean, it explains SO MUCH… https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7845145/
— @czedwards
Full title of linked paper finishes with "... Affects Cognitive Processes to Induce ‘Brain Fog’ and Results in Behavioral Changes that Favor Viral Survival"
#tcovidii #ToxoplasmaCovidii #LongCovid #covid #covid19 #C19
October 2022:
@LazarusLong13 & I are wondering about this: https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7175891/ He uses the toxoplasma gondii parasite as an example & I use the rabies virus as an example.
— @happyhexer
#tcovidii #ToxoplasmaCovidii #LongCovid #covid #covid19 #C19
Counties by adult hospital capacity (darkest counties on map above):
⒈ Warren, NY—128%
⒉ Wise, VA—121%
⒊ Matagorda, TX—118%
⒋ Smyth, VA—116%
⒌ Yuma, AZ—111%
⒍ Boone, KY—107%
⒎ Kenton, KY—107%
⒏ Buchanan, MO—105%
⒐ Shenandoah, VA—102%
⒑ Hanover, VA—100%
#ThisIsOurPolio #hospitals #LongCovid #CovidIsNotOver #nurses #MassDisablingEvent #CovidIsAirborne #BringBackMasks
Some 66 (+4) counties ≥ 100% capacity per HHS data.
Reporting ≥ 90%: 184 (-14)—over 7½% of those with any capacity. Includes surge and overflow beds: near full can mean E/Rs with day-long wait times.
For counties w/ ICUs—near one in six are full or near full.
#ThisIsOurPolio #hospitals #LongCovid #CovidIsNotOver #nurses #MassDisablingEvent #CovidIsAirborne #BringBackMasks #dataviz #datavis
Opposed to Covid vaccine? Think again.
New study indicates that over 1 in 6 unvaxxed Covid survivors still has symptoms 2 years later.
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/more-1-6-unvaccinated-covid-survivors-report-symptoms-2-years