DenisCOVIDinfoguy

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 5 months ago to auscovid19

🇫🇮 Finland: Air purifiers use at daycare centres cut kids' sick days by a third

"It would be a big savings if we could get rid of 30% of sick days spread by children, as well as the illnesses that go home to parents"

#COVID19 #Finalnd #AirPurifiers #CleanAir @auscovid19

Source: https://yle.fi/a/74-20062381

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 5 months ago to auscovid19

Exercise intolerance is one symptom associated with long COVID. A new study helps explain its cause.

“We found that despite the fact that the heart was pumping oxygenated blood that the lungs were providing adequate amounts of oxygen for, the extraction of oxygen by the body’s tissues was compromised in patients who had symptoms of exercise intolerance after COVID"

#COVID19 #ExerciseIntolerance @auscovid19

Source: https://news.yale.edu/2023/12/19/study-helps-explain-post-covid-exercise-intolerance

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 4 months ago to Depression

"A new study reveals that SARS-CoV-2 can infect dopamine neurons, potentially linking to long COVID symptoms like brain fog and depression."

#COVID19 #LongCOVID #DopamineNeurons #Brainfog #Depression @auscovid19

Source: https://neurosciencenews.com/dopamine-covid-25475/

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 1 month ago to auscovid19

Has COVID set us up for a major heart disease epidemic? It’s happened before | newatlas.com

"Around 20 years ago a pair of epidemiologists presented a controversial new hypothesis to explain this weird phenomenon: the 1918 influenza pandemic triggered a wave of heart damage in millions of people and primed them for later-life heart disease."

"SARS-CoV-2 is a very different virus to influenza. In many ways it is much more problematic. It can infect a far wider assortment of human organs and tissues than influenza and it is mutating in ways very different to H1N1."

"The COVID pandemic has not waned and dissipated in the same way the 1918 pandemic did. Instead, the SARS-CoV-2 virus is frantically changing its form from month to month leading people to experience relatively frequent reinfections."

#COVID19 #heartdiseaseepidemic @auscovid19

Source: https://newatlas.com/health-wellbeing/covid-flu-heart-disease-epidemic/

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 9 months ago to random

80% of bosses say they regret earlier return-to-office plans: ‘A lot of executives have egg on their faces’

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/11/80percent-of-bosses-say-they-regret-earlier-return-to-office-plans.html

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 3 months ago to France

🇫🇷France: "People are being urged to wear face masks in confined public spaces as part of a new campaign to protect France’s 300,000 vulnerable and immunocompromised people from Covid-19 and other respiratory infections."

In the last 4 years, COVID has killed 1 in 20 dialysis patients in France

#COVID19 #France #COVIDisNotOver @auscovid19

Source: https://www.connexionfrance.com/article/French-news/Health/Why-might-I-be-asked-to-wear-a-mask-on-French-public-transport

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 3 months ago to auscovid19

By T. Ryan Gregory @TRyanGregory

No one could have foreseen this.

"Many excess deaths attributed to natural causes are actually uncounted COVID-19 deaths, new analysis reveals"

#COVID19 #excessdeaths @auscovid19

Source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/02/240206161547.htm

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 9 months ago to random

Jamie Lee Curtis encourages fans to mask with COVID 'On the Rise'

#COVID19 #JamieLeeCurtis #maskup #COVIDisAirborne #COVIDIsNotOver

Source: https://parade.com/news/jamie-lee-curtis-encourages-fans-mask-again-covid-strain-eg5

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 5 months ago to random

I will just leave this here.

Cartoon by @deAdder

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 5 months ago to Germany

🇩🇪Germany: Wastewater samples confirm massive corona wave in Germany – higher than ever.

"Since measurements began in 2022, such high levels have never been found in wastewater"

"1 in 12, which is around 7.1 million people based on the total population"

#COVID19 #Germany #Wastewater @auscovid19

Source: https://www.merkur.de/welt/bestaetigen-corona-faelle-nehmen-rasant-zu-abwasserproben-92724053.html

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 4 months ago to auscovid19

Beyond breathing: How COVID-19 affects your heart, brain and other organs | American Heart Association

"I would argue that COVID-19 is not a disease of the lungs at all, it seems most likely that it is what we call a vascular and neurologic infection, affecting both nerve endings and our cardiovascular system."

#COVID19 #COVIDisNotOver @auscovid19

Source: https://www.heart.org/en/news/2024/01/16/how-covid-19-affects-your-heart-brain-and-other-organs

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 5 months ago to auscovid19

New study proves that COVID-19 is far more harmful and deadly than the flu.

Dr. Al-Aly wrote, “We observed higher risks of death, healthcare utilization and hits in most organ systems in COVID-19 than the flu. This was evident in pre-Delta, Delta, and Omicron. And also evident in vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals. COVID-19 remain a much more serious threat to human health than the flu.”

#COVID19 @auscovid19

Source: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/12/18/covi-d18.html

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 5 months ago to auscovid19

Infectivity of exhaled SARS-CoV-2 aerosols is sufficient to transmit COVID within minutes.

"As short as 6 min when a highly infectious individual enters the room or only 1 min if the infected person already has been in the room long enough to reach steady-state concentration of viruses in the air."

#COVIDisAirborne #COVIDisNotOver @auscovid19

Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-47829-8

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 5 months ago to auscovid19

🇺🇸 US: COVID is still killing 1,000 Americans per week while hospitalizations rise, CDC reports.

"Recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) clearly indicates the COVID-19 pandemic is not done with us, as almost all metrics related to the SARS-CoV-2 virus (test positivity, ER visits, hospitalizations and wastewater signal) have been steadily rising for weeks. Deaths, which typically lag behind these statistics anyway, have stayed unchanged over the past week, but have still averaged over 1,000 deaths weekly for the last several weeks. More than 20,000 patients were hospitalized this week with COVID-19 symptoms."

#COVID19US #COVIDisNotOver @auscovid19

Source: https://www.salon.com/2023/12/06/is-still-1000-americans-per-week-while-hospitalizations-rise-reports/

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 5 months ago to China

🇨🇳 China restarts COVID-19 testing in hospitals, airports.

"Authorities in China have started testing people for COVID-19 again in hospitals and transportation hubs as a wave of respiratory disease tears through the country, according to local residents and government directives."

#COVID19 #China #COVIDtesting @auscovid19

Source: https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/china-covid-testing-12062023133541.html

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 1 month ago to auscovid19

"COVID-19 poses a serious risk to brain health, even in mild cases, and the effects are now being revealed at the population level," clinical epidemiologist Ziyad Al-Aly said

#COVID19 #brainhealth @auscovid19

Source: https://people.com/covid-linked-lower-iq-poor-memory-other-negative-impacts-brain-health-8619254

Al-Aly, who is director of the Clinical Epidemiology Center at the VA Saint Louis Health Care System in Missouri, wrote that he has been studying long COVID since early reports of the disease and before the term was even coined by the medical community. He explained in his essay that "large epidemiological analyses" showed that people who had COVID were at an increased risk of cognitive deficits including memory problems. A study of people with a mild to moderate form of the virus showed significant, prolonged inflammation of the brain and changes that "are commensurate with seven years of brain aging." Al-Aly also cited imaging studies done on people both before and after their COVID infections, which showed "shrinkage of brain volume" and "altered brain structure" after infection. Other research reveals that people who require hospitalization or intensive care amid their COVID infection may develop "cognitive deficits and other brain damage that are equivalent to 20 years of aging."
In addition, Al-Aly highlighted preliminary analysis pooling together data from 11 studies that showed that COVID increased the risk of development of new-onset dementia in people older than 60. He also noted that autopsies performed on people who died with COVID revealed "devastating damage" in their brains. Autopsies of people who had severe COVID but died a few months later from other causes showed that the virus was still present in brain tissue, suggesting that "SARS-CoV-2 is not only a respiratory virus." Studies assessing patients hospitalized with COVID who experienced brain fog indicate that the virus can disrupt the blood-brain barrier, "the shield that protects the nervous system, which is the control and command center of our bodies," Al-Aly wrote. Most recently, Al-Aly said, a study published on Feb. 29 in the New England Journal of Medicine assessed cognitive abilities including spatial reasoning, memory and planning in nearly 113,000 people who had previously had COVID. "The researchers found that those who had been infected had significant deficits in memory and executive task performance," he wrote. The deficits were seen among people infected with the virus in the early phase of the pandemic, as well as when the delta and omicron variants dominated. According to Al-Aly, that same study found that "those who had mild and resolved COVID-19 showed cognitive decline equivalent to a three-point loss of IQ." Those with unresolved persistent symptoms —

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 4 months ago to australia

🇦🇺 Australia: "The Burnet Institute says Australia’s aggressive approach to suppressing COVID-19 in the first 2 years of the pandemic has been vindicated in saving thousands of lives, leading to a death rate 33 times lower than the United Kingdom and 46 times lower than the United States."

#COVID19 #Australia @auscovid19

Source: https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/aggressive-measures-in-covid-early-years-credited-for-saving-thousands-of-lives-20240112-p5ewxi.html

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DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 4 months ago to Michigan

🇺🇸 US: Michigan healthcare workers describe dismal conditions in hospitals amid COVID-19 surge.

One worker stated, “COVID is rampant. Keep your masks on. It’s ramping up. Biden thinks it’s nonexistent, management thinks it’s nonexistent, too. I don’t think we are testing everyone. We are testing if they are a suspected case, but we don’t always know.”

#COVID19US #Michigan #HealthcareWorkers #COVIDisNotOver @auscovid19

Source: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/01/05/npot-j05.html

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 4 months ago to auscovid19

Study identifies mitochondrial dysfunction as cause of long-COVID fatigue.

"Researchers from Amsterdam UMC and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) have discovered that the persistent fatigue in patients with long-COVID has a biological cause, namely mitochondria in muscle cells that produce less energy than in healthy patients. The results of the study were published today in Nature Communications."

#COVID19 #LongCOVID #fatigue #Mitochondria #musclecells @auscovid19

Source: https://www.news-medical.net/news/20240104/Study-identifies-mitochondrial-dysfunction-as-cause-of-long-COVID-fatigue.aspx

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 8 months ago to Canada

🇨🇦Canada's top doc Dr. Theresa Tam says we should all mask up again.

“It is a layer of protection,” Tam said. “We hope people have developed the habit to be able to use masks as needed during the respiratory virus season, not just for COVID.”

#Canada #Maskup #COVIDisNotOver @auscovid19

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DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 3 months ago to auscovid19

COVID excess death toll approaches 30 million globally.

"Extrapolating these infection estimates to the rest of the world, this could very well mean that upwards of 1-2 billion more infections have transpired during the ongoing global wave of JN.1, meaning that tens of millions or more Long COVID cases should be expected to develop in the coming weeks to months.

"What is most concerning is that excess deaths remained stubbornly high throughout the entirety of 2023. While official COVID deaths for 2023 stood at only 284,000 globally, the excess death toll was 3.2 million, a figure that is more than 11 times higher."

#COIVIDisNotOver @auscovid19

Source: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/01/26/covi-j26.html

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 3 months ago to auscovid19

There have been over 7 million recorded fatalities due to COVID-19, from the beginning of the pandemic until the end of 2023, according to official data, but the actual death toll from the disease may be closer to 21 million, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said.

“We are missing deaths from around the world. Because countries aren’t reporting deaths, it doesn’t mean that they’re not happening,” said Dr Van Kerkhove

#COVIDisNotOver #COVIDisNotFlu #COVIDisAirborne @auscovid19

Source: https://www.straitstimes.com/world/over-7m-covid-19-deaths-recorded-but-actual-fatalities-may-be-three-times-higher-who

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 4 months ago to australia

COVID-19 warning ahead of New Year’s Eve parties

"New Year’s Eve partygoers should consider wearing face masks, testing for COVID-19 if they have symptoms and stay away from large crowds if they want to avoid a wave of virus infections sweeping the country, experts warn."

#COVID19 #Australia @auscovid19

Source: https://www.afr.com/policy/health-and-education/covid-19-warning-ahead-of-nye-parties-20231227-p5ettu

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DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 4 months ago to auscovid19

COVID barely gets a mention these days – here’s why that’s a dangerous situation.

"COVID complacency, by governments, the media and the public, is a threat to the overall health of the population, to health services and particularly to those most vulnerable, including older adults and those with pre-existing health conditions."

#COVIDisNotOver @auscovid19

Source: https://theconversation.com/covid-barely-gets-a-mention-these-days-heres-why-thats-a-dangerous-situation-220867

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 4 months ago to italy

🇮🇹 Emergency departments in Italian hospitals are in chaos and on the verge of collapse: Over 1,100 patients waiting to be admitted in Rome.

#Italy @auscovid19

Source: https://www.euronews.com/2024/01/03/italian-hospitals-collapse-over-1100-patients-waiting-to-be-admitted-in-rome