@servelan@newsie.social**Brainstem damage found to be behind long-lasting effects of severe #COVID19**
https://www.news-medical.net/news/20251008/Brainstem-damage-found-to-be-linked-to-long-lasting-effects-of-severe-Covid-19.aspx
@paulbusch@mstdn.caMy initial thoughts as I read through the Canadian summary:
- While it mentions a political revolution in the U.S., with Trump removing or ignoring controls on his powers, it doesn't talk about how critical their midterms are.
- If the Democrats fail to take control of the House and Senate, then 2027 and beyond will be worse. Trump, senile and aging badly, will be a puppet for the worst elements in the U.S government.
- There's a real possibility that midterms could get canceled outright as Trump seeks absolute power.
- Smaller risks, in terms of impact, are food and health safety.
- The U.S. is removing all restrictions on profit in their food chain. Inspection agencies are being dismantled and legislation eliminated. Yet we continue to import goods from them.
- The anti-vaccine strategy at the very top is leading to surges in COVID, flu, measles and more. How long until that spills over our border.
#CanPoli
@heiseonline@social.heise.de
@cdarwin@c.imLast season’s updated vaccine provides significant protection against covid-19,
particularly against severe illness and death.
The results reaffirm the benefit of staying current with covid vaccination.
Researchers analyzed data from approximately 1.8 million Americans between August 2024 and April 2025,
of whom only about 13 percent received the 2024–2025 coronavirus shot.
They evaluated three clinical outcomes related to the disease: infections, emergency departm…
@grumpybozo@toad.socialHad a long talk with Elder Spawn this morning and I’m a bit at a loss for trying to be the wise old Dad…
She got tailspun by Covid, she has chronic health issues, & she hasn’t responded to her friends for a couple months. One of them who’s local here called me as they were on the verge of calling the Las Vegas PD to ask for a wellness check.
She does not let my call go to VM. She’s in no emergent danger. She’s stuck. Doesn’t feel safe doing anything that she understands as an…
@mia@hcommons.social'This Physicist Says We Don’t Take COVID Seriously Enough' https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2025/10/31/Physicist-COVID-Seriously-Enough/
Insurance companies reporting excess mortality linked to long COVID, and the American Medical Association…
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialThis is genuinely the boogie man I'm afraid of.
☑️ Strange changes found in blood of long Covid patients | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/long-covid-patient-blood-change-b2866428.html#Echobox=17…
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Votes for children! Why we should lower the voting age to six.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/nov/16/reconstruction-after-covid-votes-for-children-age-six-david-runciman
@DiverDoc@mstdn.caLong COVID takes $1 trillion global economic toll each year, analysis suggests : (Maybe Musk would pick up the tab ...)
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/long-covid-takes-1-trillion-global-economic-toll-each-year-analysis-suggests
@cdarwin@c.imScientists from the University of East Anglia and Oxford BioDynamics have created a highly accurate blood test capable of diagnosing
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome,
also known as Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS).
The condition, which causes long-term and often debilitating exhaustion,
affects millions of people around the world,
including more than 400,000 individuals in the UK.
Despite its prevalence,
ME/CFS has remained poorly understood and notorious…
@SmartmanApps@dotnet.social#FactFriday
An unwalled version of a walled article that originally appeared in Rolling Stone (not happy that Rolling Stone has such an important health article behind their wall - I've seen other places unwall important articles - shoutout to @…). I personally …
@cdarwin@c.imFor more than three years, I’ve lived with long COVID.
The dizziness never leaves.
I can’t drive more than half an hour without starting to get nauseous.
Any strenuous activity — mental or physical — leaves me with post-exertional malaise that feels like a hangover the next day.
I’ve learned to adapt and find gratitude for many things, but life remains an exhausting calculus of rationing energy across work, chores, and my kids.
I am only one of over an estimated …
@tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineIn Deutschland leben rund 1,5 Millionen Menschen mit #LongCovid oder #MECFS.
Nun stellt die #Bundesregierung 500 Millionen Euro für die Erforschung postinfektiöser Erkrankungen bereit.
@pre@boing.worldAdded a zoom level to the Category page on the Exocortex-Log app. Can make the graphs look a lot cleaner now.
Looking back over the last 100 months here, we can see in general my social life is quite seasonal -- Festivals are a lot of social all weekend long and a couple of them in a month really bumps up the hours from my usual habit of sitting alone in a dark room pressing buttons.
The peak in 2019 is a summer filled with Glasto and Noisily and another festival or camping trip I don’t seem to have recorded the name of.
Then clearly visible is the drop-off in social activity as the COVID pandemic hit. Virtual-Social (IE zoom meetings and the like) picked up quite a bit around there but had died back to almost nothing way before the hours spent with actual people started to tick up.
Annoyingly, I have my biggest gap in data right on top of the pandemic there, where I failed to back up for months and then data became corrupted.
When the data-hole is over we see social life still not really returning until the middle of 2021 and not really getting back into stride until summer 2022.
It remains much lower now on average with lower peaks than before the pandemic too. Multiple reasons.
Work is pretty constant all the way though other than the data-hole. Dipping when I take time off for social mostly.
That data-hole is annoying. Back up your data kids.
#lifeLog #app #exocortexLog
