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I would definitely miss the smell of fresh cut grass.
For those of us with any long-covid issues, also know as covid long haulers. (3 Viewers)
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Covid-19 has killed more than 6 million people worldwide but will also leave a lasting scar on hundreds of millions who have survived.
The disease can trigger cardiovascular, gastrointestinal and neurological symptoms; it can affect the skin, kidneys, liver, the endocrine organs and the eyes. Moreover, the damage to the body may linger long after the initial sickness.
Much about this phenomenon of “long covid” is still unclear, but evidence is accumulating that populations will be struggling for years to come.
What is long covid? Although there are no hard-and-fast definitions, it broadly means symptoms that persist beyond four weeks since the initial infection and that are hard to explain in any other fashion.
Some of the most common are fatigue and memory problems, but others can include difficulty breathing, cough, chest pain, heart palpitations, headache, dizziness, change in smell or taste, depression, anxiety and diarrhea.
More than two years into the pandemic, scientists are trying to understand who gets long covid and how the infection can cause lasting harm.
It is becoming more clear that long covid cuts a wide swath. A new survey for the Journal of Infectious Diseases examined about 50 articles and studies covering nearly 1.7 million patients worldwide who were infected with the coronavirus.
Overall, the authors found the global prevalence of long covid symptoms was 43 percent of those who had been infected, higher for those who had been hospitalized than those not.
They said that based on a World Health Organization estimate of 470 million people having been infected, their estimate could mean about 200 million people currently experience or have previously experienced long-term health-related consequences of the disease.
The U.S. Government Accountability Office said recently that between 7.7 million and 23 million Americans might have suffered from long covid so far.
Another insight has come from the creation in October 2021 of a diagnostic code for those identified as suffering from long covid. Studying the private health-care claims of 75,252 patients labeled with the code, the nonprofit group FAIR Health found that a surprisingly large share of them, three-quarters, had not been hospitalized for the virus but still showed symptoms of long covid.
Moreover, long covid seemed to strike women more often, at 59.8 percent of the group compared with 40.2 percent for men. Yet another study published in the British medical journal BMJ found that one dose, and even more so two doses of vaccine, reduced the risks of long covid in Britain……
The disease can trigger cardiovascular, gastrointestinal and neurological symptoms; it can affect the skin, kidneys, liver, the endocrine organs and the eyes. Moreover, the damage to the body may linger long after the initial sickness.
Much about this phenomenon of “long covid” is still unclear, but evidence is accumulating that populations will be struggling for years to come.
What is long covid? Although there are no hard-and-fast definitions, it broadly means symptoms that persist beyond four weeks since the initial infection and that are hard to explain in any other fashion.
Some of the most common are fatigue and memory problems, but others can include difficulty breathing, cough, chest pain, heart palpitations, headache, dizziness, change in smell or taste, depression, anxiety and diarrhea.
More than two years into the pandemic, scientists are trying to understand who gets long covid and how the infection can cause lasting harm.
It is becoming more clear that long covid cuts a wide swath. A new survey for the Journal of Infectious Diseases examined about 50 articles and studies covering nearly 1.7 million patients worldwide who were infected with the coronavirus.
Overall, the authors found the global prevalence of long covid symptoms was 43 percent of those who had been infected, higher for those who had been hospitalized than those not.
They said that based on a World Health Organization estimate of 470 million people having been infected, their estimate could mean about 200 million people currently experience or have previously experienced long-term health-related consequences of the disease.
The U.S. Government Accountability Office said recently that between 7.7 million and 23 million Americans might have suffered from long covid so far.
Another insight has come from the creation in October 2021 of a diagnostic code for those identified as suffering from long covid. Studying the private health-care claims of 75,252 patients labeled with the code, the nonprofit group FAIR Health found that a surprisingly large share of them, three-quarters, had not been hospitalized for the virus but still showed symptoms of long covid.
Moreover, long covid seemed to strike women more often, at 59.8 percent of the group compared with 40.2 percent for men. Yet another study published in the British medical journal BMJ found that one dose, and even more so two doses of vaccine, reduced the risks of long covid in Britain……
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and this is also what I'm worried about
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A large U.S. study looking at whether vaccination protects against long covid showed the shots have only a slight protective effect: Being vaccinated appeared to reduce the risk of lung and blood clot disorders, but did little to protect against most other symptoms.
The new paper, published Wednesday in Nature Medicine, is part of a series of studies by the Department of Veterans Affairs on the impact of the coronavirus, and was based on 33,940 people who experienced breakthrough infections after vaccination.
The data confirms the large body of research that shows vaccination greatly reduces the risk of death or serious illness. But there was more ambiguity regarding long covid.
Six months after their initial diagnosis of covid, people in the study who were vaccinated had only a slightly reduced risk of getting long covid — 15 percent overall. The greatest benefit appeared to be in reducing blood clotting and lung complications. But there was no difference between the vaccinated and unvaccinated when it came to longer-term risks of neurological issues, gastrointestinal symptoms, kidney failure and other conditions.
The data confirms the large body of research that shows vaccination greatly reduces the risk of death or serious illness. But there was more ambiguity regarding long covid.
Six months after their initial diagnosis of covid, people in the study who were vaccinated had only a slightly reduced risk of getting long covid — 15 percent overall. The greatest benefit appeared to be in reducing blood clotting and lung complications. But there was no difference between the vaccinated and unvaccinated when it came to longer-term risks of neurological issues, gastrointestinal symptoms, kidney failure and other conditions............
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A large U.S. study looking at whether vaccination protects against long covid showed the shots have only a slight protective effect: Being vaccinated appeared to reduce the risk of lung and blood clot disorders, but did little to protect against most other symptoms.
The new paper, published Wednesday in Nature Medicine, is part of a series of studies by the Department of Veterans Affairs on the impact of the coronavirus, and was based on 33,940 people who experienced breakthrough infections after vaccination.
The data confirms the large body of research that shows vaccination greatly reduces the risk of death or serious illness. But there was more ambiguity regarding long covid.
Six months after their initial diagnosis of covid, people in the study who were vaccinated had only a slightly reduced risk of getting long covid — 15 percent overall. The greatest benefit appeared to be in reducing blood clotting and lung complications. But there was no difference between the vaccinated and unvaccinated when it came to longer-term risks of neurological issues, gastrointestinal symptoms, kidney failure and other conditions.
The data confirms the large body of research that shows vaccination greatly reduces the risk of death or serious illness. But there was more ambiguity regarding long covid.
Six months after their initial diagnosis of covid, people in the study who were vaccinated had only a slightly reduced risk of getting long covid — 15 percent overall. The greatest benefit appeared to be in reducing blood clotting and lung complications. But there was no difference between the vaccinated and unvaccinated when it came to longer-term risks of neurological issues, gastrointestinal symptoms, kidney failure and other conditions............
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FYI…lots of long COVID programs are ran through Psychology departments. There’s a concern that it may be a central sensitization problem as seen in conditions such as Fibromyalgia. Probably not that simple…but it’s probably a factor
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Nearly 18 months after getting the coronavirus and spending weeks in the hospital, Terry Bell struggles with hanging up his shirts and pants after doing the laundry.
Lifting his clothes, raising his arms, arranging items in his closet leave Bell short of breath and often trigger severe fatigue. He walks with a cane, and only short distances.
He’s 50 pounds lighter than when he was struck by covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus.
Bell, 70, is among millions of older adults who have grappled with long covid — a population that has received little attention even though research suggests seniors are more likely to develop the poorly understood condition than younger or middle-aged adults…….
Only now is the impact on older adults beginning to be documented. In a study published in the journal BMJ, researchers estimated that 32 percent of older adults in the United States who survived covid infections had symptoms of long covid up to four months after infection — more than double the 14 percent rate an earlier study found in adults ages 18 to 64. (Other studies suggest symptoms can last much longer, for a year or more.)
The BMJ study examined more than 87,000 adults 65 and older who had covid infections in 2020, drawing on claims data from UnitedHealth Group’s Medicare Advantage plans. It included symptoms that lasted 21 days or more after an infection, a shorter period than the CDC uses in its long covid definition. The data encompasses both older adults who were hospitalized because of covid (27 percent) and those who were not (73 percent)…….
Lifting his clothes, raising his arms, arranging items in his closet leave Bell short of breath and often trigger severe fatigue. He walks with a cane, and only short distances.
He’s 50 pounds lighter than when he was struck by covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus.
Bell, 70, is among millions of older adults who have grappled with long covid — a population that has received little attention even though research suggests seniors are more likely to develop the poorly understood condition than younger or middle-aged adults…….
Only now is the impact on older adults beginning to be documented. In a study published in the journal BMJ, researchers estimated that 32 percent of older adults in the United States who survived covid infections had symptoms of long covid up to four months after infection — more than double the 14 percent rate an earlier study found in adults ages 18 to 64. (Other studies suggest symptoms can last much longer, for a year or more.)
The BMJ study examined more than 87,000 adults 65 and older who had covid infections in 2020, drawing on claims data from UnitedHealth Group’s Medicare Advantage plans. It included symptoms that lasted 21 days or more after an infection, a shorter period than the CDC uses in its long covid definition. The data encompasses both older adults who were hospitalized because of covid (27 percent) and those who were not (73 percent)…….
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A question....can you suffer from long covid if you had it but were asymptomatic? I only wonder because my dad's energy fell off a cliff about two/three months ago. He's fully vaxxed with booster and never had any symptons of Covid.
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I've heard that you can, that how 'bad' your bout with covid was has nothing to do with how bad your case of long covid may be
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So, I'm not struggling with anything, but I do have an annoying dry cough that shows up here and there. Mostly no coughing.
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Since the early days of the pandemic it has been clear some people shed genetic material from the virus in their stools for months after catching Covid-19. The findings were initially regarded as a curiosity, but there is mounting evidence to support the idea that persistent pockets of coronavirus – in the gut, or elsewhere – may be contributing to long Covid.
Earlier this month, Prof David R Walt and colleagues at Harvard Medical School announcedthat they had detected Sars-CoV-2 proteins – most commonly the viral spike protein – in the blood of 65% of the long Covid patients they tested, up to 12 months after they were first diagnosed.
Though small and preliminary, the study provides some of the most compelling evidence yet for the idea that reservoirs of the virus could be contributing to people’s long-term ill health. “The half-life of spike protein in the body is pretty short, so its presence indicates that there must be some kind of active viral reservoir,” Walt said…….
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Earlier this month, Prof David R Walt and colleagues at Harvard Medical School announcedthat they had detected Sars-CoV-2 proteins – most commonly the viral spike protein – in the blood of 65% of the long Covid patients they tested, up to 12 months after they were first diagnosed.
Though small and preliminary, the study provides some of the most compelling evidence yet for the idea that reservoirs of the virus could be contributing to people’s long-term ill health. “The half-life of spike protein in the body is pretty short, so its presence indicates that there must be some kind of active viral reservoir,” Walt said…….
Are pockets of Covid in the gut causing long-term symptoms?
Scientists are investigating whether reservoirs of virus ‘hiding’ in the body are contributing to long Covid
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The term “long covid” came from early patients who called themselves “long-haulers” when their pandemic maladies lingered for months.
It is now increasingly apparent that long covid presents a potential tidal wave of suffering — afflictions stemming from covid-19 that refuse to go away. The scope of the problem is still unknown.
But a new study from the Netherlands offers important clues.
In a paper published in the Lancet, Aranka Ballering and colleagues at the Lifelines Corona Research Initiative report on an effort to discover the nature and prevalence of post-covid conditions based on a large population sample.
The report corrects for those who had certain symptoms before the virus infection, and also for disease dynamics in the general population.
That helped them drill down on actual damage caused by the pandemic. They found that post-covid symptoms lingered in about 1 in 8 people.
If true, such a proportion could mean 70 million or more sufferers of long covid worldwide based on the total of over 588 million infected to date, and probably far more. Some studies have given even higher prevalence.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found in a recent large study that 1 in 5 adults from 18 to 64 years old who had covid, and 1 in 4 aged 65 years and over, had at least one persisting health condition related to their covid infection. Yet another survey put the prevalence at 43 percent.
The Netherlands study was based on digital questionnaires sent to patients between March 31, 2020, and Aug. 2, 2021 — mostly before the delta and omicron waves — and recorded long-covid symptoms from three to five months after the initial infection.
The main symptoms bothering people were chest pain, difficulties with breathing, lump in throat, pain when breathing, painful muscles, heavy arms or legs, loss of taste and smell, alternating feelings of hot and cold, tingling extremities, and general tiredness.
The study found some symptoms that were “not significantly increased” in severity at 90 to 150 days after infection, suggesting they might not be associated with long covid: headache, itchy eyes, dizzyness, back pain and nausea…….
It is now increasingly apparent that long covid presents a potential tidal wave of suffering — afflictions stemming from covid-19 that refuse to go away. The scope of the problem is still unknown.
But a new study from the Netherlands offers important clues.
In a paper published in the Lancet, Aranka Ballering and colleagues at the Lifelines Corona Research Initiative report on an effort to discover the nature and prevalence of post-covid conditions based on a large population sample.
The report corrects for those who had certain symptoms before the virus infection, and also for disease dynamics in the general population.
That helped them drill down on actual damage caused by the pandemic. They found that post-covid symptoms lingered in about 1 in 8 people.
If true, such a proportion could mean 70 million or more sufferers of long covid worldwide based on the total of over 588 million infected to date, and probably far more. Some studies have given even higher prevalence.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found in a recent large study that 1 in 5 adults from 18 to 64 years old who had covid, and 1 in 4 aged 65 years and over, had at least one persisting health condition related to their covid infection. Yet another survey put the prevalence at 43 percent.
The Netherlands study was based on digital questionnaires sent to patients between March 31, 2020, and Aug. 2, 2021 — mostly before the delta and omicron waves — and recorded long-covid symptoms from three to five months after the initial infection.
The main symptoms bothering people were chest pain, difficulties with breathing, lump in throat, pain when breathing, painful muscles, heavy arms or legs, loss of taste and smell, alternating feelings of hot and cold, tingling extremities, and general tiredness.
The study found some symptoms that were “not significantly increased” in severity at 90 to 150 days after infection, suggesting they might not be associated with long covid: headache, itchy eyes, dizzyness, back pain and nausea…….
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A study published this week in the journal Lancet Psychiatry showed increased risks of some brain disorders two years after infection with the coronavirus, shedding new light on the long-term neurological and psychiatric aspects of the virus.
The analysis, conducted by researchers at the University of Oxford and drawing on health records data from more than 1 million people around the world, found that while the risks of many common psychiatric disorders returned to normal within a couple of months, people remained at increased risk for dementia, epilepsy, psychosis and cognitive deficit (or brain fog) two years after contracting covid.
Adults appeared to be at particular risk of lasting brain fog, a common complaint among coronavirus survivors.
The study’s findings were a mix of good and bad news, said Paul Harrison, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Oxford and the senior author of the study.
Among the reassuring aspects was the quick resolution of symptoms such as depression and anxiety…….
The analysis, conducted by researchers at the University of Oxford and drawing on health records data from more than 1 million people around the world, found that while the risks of many common psychiatric disorders returned to normal within a couple of months, people remained at increased risk for dementia, epilepsy, psychosis and cognitive deficit (or brain fog) two years after contracting covid.
Adults appeared to be at particular risk of lasting brain fog, a common complaint among coronavirus survivors.
The study’s findings were a mix of good and bad news, said Paul Harrison, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Oxford and the senior author of the study.
Among the reassuring aspects was the quick resolution of symptoms such as depression and anxiety…….
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Well, I have been trying to get back to feeling somewhat normal when it comes to energy. My Vitamin D was really low and my Testoserone was low. These are problems i didn't have before Covid. Could be a coincidence with me in my late 40's. But the timing seemed right, since i didn't have this lack of get up and go in the mornings until i got Covid (orginal strain). The Vitamin D has helped some, I am about to start the Testosterone this week, to see if that is the boost i need.
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I'll be interested to hear your results!
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About 16 million working-age Americans have long-term Covid and 2-4 million are out of work because of its ill effects, according to a new reportfrom the Brookings Institution.
Employers have complained of labor shortages throughout the pandemic, and the analysis of data from the US Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey, which collects data from Americans through a survey on education, employment, health and housing, suggests one possible reason for the lack of workers.
The report found that about 16 million Americans between 18 and 65 have long Covid. Of these people, who are considered of working age, they estimate that 2 to 4 million are out of work because of their symptoms……
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Employers have complained of labor shortages throughout the pandemic, and the analysis of data from the US Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey, which collects data from Americans through a survey on education, employment, health and housing, suggests one possible reason for the lack of workers.
The report found that about 16 million Americans between 18 and 65 have long Covid. Of these people, who are considered of working age, they estimate that 2 to 4 million are out of work because of their symptoms……
Long Covid keeping 2-4 million Americans out of workforce, report says
About 16 million working-age Americans have long-term Covid, according to a Brookings Institution report
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