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Doctors are trying to understand why Covid Patients Coming Off Ventilators Can Take Weeks to Regain Consciousness

Mon, 2022-11-07 18:45 — mike kraft

In March 2020, New York City’s hospitals filled up with patients desperately ill with Covid-19. In many cases, when their fluid-filled lungs could no longer give them oxygen, doctors sedated them and put them on ventilators.

The patients who recovered were taken off the machines and anesthesia. Within a day or so, their doctors expected them to wake up.

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Trying to understand long covid, scientists made mini brains and infected them with coronavirus.

Mon, 2022-11-07 18:35 — mike kraft

Scientists made mini brains and infected them with coronavirus.

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Americans may soon have to pay for COVID-19 tests

Fri, 2022-11-04 18:24 — mike kraft

Why you may soon have to pay for that COVID-19 test The federal government is poised to stop paying for COVID-19 vaccines, tests and treatments in the coming months, shifting the costs onto the public. Experts say most Americans are not aware … iswanson The Hill

The federal government is poised to stop paying for COVID-19 vaccines, tests and treatments in the coming months, shifting the costs onto the public.

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Lessns learned" Two early US programs successfully traced COVID case contacts

Fri, 2022-11-04 18:03 — mike kraft

Two early US programs successfully traced COVID case contacts One report details a massive NYC effort to probe 941,035 COVID-19 cases and follow up with their contacts. CIDRAP

A pair of new studies describe how two US jurisdictions quickly mobilized teams of contact tracers to identify and isolate people exposed to SARS-CoV-2, with a massive New York City effort finding 1.4 contacts per case and a college student-led Central Pennsylvania initiative that may have led to fewer symptomatic household infections.

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Monkeypox: Considerable' monkeypox transmission can happen before symptoms appear, study suggests

Thu, 2022-11-03 10:32 — mike kraft

'Considerable' monkeypox transmission happens before symptoms, study suggests Monkeypox can spread before symptoms appear, British researchers said on Wednesday, providing the first evidence indicating the virus can be transmitted this way. Jennifer Rigby Reuters

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High blood pressure went up even more early in the pandemic, study finds

Wed, 2022-11-02 18:50 — mike kraft

High blood pressure went up even more early in the pandemic, study finds | CNN People in the US with high blood pressure saw their levels rise during the first eight months of the Covid-19 pandemic, a new study says. Jen Christensen CNN

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The US National Institutes of Health, which helped fund the study, said it is one of the most extensive looks at blood pressure trends from the beginning of the pandemic.

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South Florida lacks long COVID treatment options

Wed, 2022-11-02 18:46 — mike kraft

More than a quarter of Floridians who know they've had COVID say they've also experienced the often disabling aftereffects known as long COVID, according to recent CDC data.

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Florida lacks an adequate number of long COVID treatment options to meet the need, Survivor Corps, an advocacy group for COVID care and research, told Axios.

The group has identified only four active long COVID clinics in Miami-Dade and Broward counties.

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Analysis: The Pandemic Uncovered Ways to Speed Up Science

Tue, 2022-11-01 17:44 — mike kraft

The Pandemic Uncovered Ways to Speed Up Science There doesn't have to be a trade-off between good research and fast research. Saloni Dattani WIRED

The pandemic highlighted broad problems in research: that many studies were hyped, error-ridden, or even fraudulent, and that misinformation could spread rapidly. But it also demonstrated what was possible.

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US study estimates Prevalence and Correlates of Long COVID Symptoms Among US Adults

Mon, 2022-10-31 17:30 — mike kraft

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2797782

Prevalence and Correlates of Long COVID Symptoms Among US AdultS

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Findings In this cross-sectional study of more than 16 000 individuals, 15% of US adults with a prior positive COVID-19 test reported current symptoms of long COVID. Those who completed a primary vaccination series prior to infection were less likely to report long COVID symptoms.

...long COVID is prevalent and associated with female gender and older age...

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