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'It's real': Study suggests thousands of West Australians are suffering long-term COVID symptoms
"Researchers say more support is needed for patients suffering from long-term illness associated with a COVID-19 infection, with new data showing a large number of West Australians have been left unable to work due to their crippling symptoms. "

Experts call for more research into long COVID, as study reveals high prevalence in WA
While most have moved on from the coronavirus pandemic, a large cohort of people in Western Australia are still caught in its grip.

The physical and psychological effects of these different versions of Covid
– the short and the long
– are oddly parallel to its political consequences.
The disease turns out to be its own metaphor.
We are all suffering from political long Covid now.
The early drama is over.
A series of lingering misfortunes has replaced it.
As with long Covid, different countries are suffering in different ways, trapped in their own private miseries.
The shoc…

Not wearing a mask during COVID-19 health emergency isn't a free speech right, appeals court says (Mike Catalini/ABC News)
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/wearing-mask-covid-19-health-emergency-isnt-free-106996447

Not wearing a mask during COVID-19 health emergency isn’t a free speech right, appeals court says
A federal appeals court has shot down claims that there's a First Amendment right not to wear face masks during the COVID-19 outbreak

#Covid
Why is Maria Van Kerkhove repeatedly stating that wastewater prevalences suggest 2 - 20 times higher circulation of SARS2 than reported by countries?
Representative surveys indicate 100 times higher incidences than those reported by countries.
Thread.

Rampant COVID Poses New Challenges in the Fifth Year of the Pandemic
“We’re still in a pandemic,” says a lead COVID official with the World Health Organization

Chinese virologist who was first to share #COVID-19 genome sleeps on street after Chinese government shuts his lab
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01293-0

Virologist who was first to share COVID genome is shut out of lab in China
Zhang Yongzhen shared the genomic sequence of SARS-CoV-2 with the world, speeding the development of vaccines.

Between 2.5 and 28% of people infected with SARS-CoV-2 suffer Long COVID or persistence of symptoms for months after acute illness.
Many symptoms are neurological, but the brain changes underlying the neuropsychological impairments remain unclear.
This study aimed to provide a detailed description of the cognitive profile, the pattern of brain alterations in Long COVID and the potential association between them.

Brain and cognitive changes in patients with long COVID compared with infection-recovered control subjects
Serrano del Pueblo et al. report that patients with long COVID have cognitive difficulties, especially in episodic memory and executive function, compared

#Covid #Influenza
Influenza- und Covid-Hospitalisierungen in CH-SUR.
Man vergleiche mit der hohen Covid-bedingten Übersterblichkeit (Maximum in KW 48, Daten ebenfalls bis KW 8).
Bei 15% (Grippe) bzw. 20% (SARS2) erfolgte die Ansteckung im Spital.
Quellen: BAG, BFS

COVID Rapid Tests Reliably Detect New Variants : Researchers who “test the tests” say that #COVID rapid tests have kept up with new variants
https://www.scientificamerican.…

COVID Rapid Tests Reliably Detect New Variants
Researchers who “test the tests” say that COVID rapid tests have kept up with new variants