Scienceisnotopinions

Scienceisnotopinions, 1 month ago to random

Can walk-in clinics directly admit patients to the hospital?

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 1 month ago to auscovid19

Ongoing breathing problems continue after COVID | inquirer.com

"I have seen an uptick in cases of diaphragm paralysis since the COVID pandemic and worldwide studies have shown patients who had COVID may experience long-term diaphragm weakness"

#COVID19 #breathingproblems @auscovid19

Source: https://www.inquirer.com/health/breathing-problems-after-covid-20240329.html

Study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10072790/

Joe’s pulmonologist continued with more tests. After a bronchoscopy, a procedure to look in the airway and lungs using a thin flexible tube, his doctor thought a collapsed trachea might be the cause. He was diagnosed with tracheobronchomalacia (TBM), where the walls of the airway are weak and collapse when a patient breathes or coughs. Because the condition is so rare, his pulmonologist suggested he seek surgical treatment at a specialized center and referred him to me. When Joe arrived at Temple University Hospital, I ordered a bronchoscopy to confirm TBM and determine the best course of treatment. His results showed some airway collapse but it was not severe, nor was he coughing, which is another prominent symptom of TBM. The problem runs deeper A CT scan of his chest showed his diaphragm, the main muscle that facilitates breathing, was slightly elevated on both sides. I sent him to get a sniff test to confirm my hunch. The sniff test uses x-ray video to see how your diaphragm moves when you inhale quickly. Normally when you sniff, the diaphragm moves down. If it moves upward on inhale, that signals dysfunction, which is what we saw on Joe’s test. An ultrasound ultimately revealed the true diagnosis: bilateral diaphragmatic paralysis, an uncommon condition.
Some patients can benefit from losing weight or starting a pulmonary rehab program to reduce the burden on the diaphragm. For those with an impaired quality of life like Joe, surgery can offer a long-term solution. If the cause is thought to be a viral infection, we recommend waiting six months to a year after infection as there are reports of the phrenic nerve recovering on its own. That did not happen for Joe, so in January 2023, he had surgery to correct the paralysis on his right diaphragm. Plication is a minimally invasive procedure performed robotically through small incisions to reshape the diaphragm by suturing it onto itself to make it more stiff and flat, allowing the lung more room to expand and therefore helping the patient breathe better. Following the first surgery on the right diaphragm, he could once again breathe while lying flat. He returned to some normal everyday activities with more ease. In telemedicine follow-up appointments, he noted that he still felt some resistance when drawing in a breath so we brought him back for surgery in October to correct the paralysis on his left side. He’s now breathing completely normally with no feeling of obstruction. He returned to work in January and is even running again. Dr. Charles Bakhos is a thoracic surgeon at Temple University Hospital and Vice Chief of the Department of Thoracic Medicine and Surgery at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University.

Scienceisnotopinions, 1 month ago to random

Reminder that covid can have GI symptoms. My husband has a fever of 39 and now diarehea. I hope it's not covid!

EricCarroll, 1 month ago to random

4 years for WHO to say #CovidIsAirborne officially.

Scienceisnotopinions, 1 month ago to random

DOES IT TAKE 100 PER CENT LONG COVID TO GET PEOPLE'S ATTENTION? Some say it's one in 5, some say it's one in 10. If you do the math it's too many people.

douglaspynn, 2 months ago to random

Gotta go for an MRI.
Trying out a strapless, MRI safe mask.

#maskup #covid

Scienceisnotopinions, 2 months ago to random

A woman takes her kids to Disney World after they just got cleared a life threatening type of cancer. She could have waited until covid was over. This story is all over the news right now.🤷‍♀️

hannu_ikonen, 2 months ago to random

Millenials having "little to no loyalty in the workplace" is a sign of progress, not concern, you fucking deliberately obtuse coercive capitalist fucks.

Scienceisnotopinions, 2 months ago to random

Long Covid is happening at a higher rate than is being reported. If LC only involved 1 per cent of the population then I could see them not doing much, but the numbers are between 10 and 20% and it's more than enough to disrupt the workforce as well as put a strain on our health resources, not to mention people's mental health. Also there is enough research that proves covid damages brains, even among the vaccinated. Right now experts say we're on track to be infected twice a year potentially.

Scienceisnotopinions, 2 months ago to random

I read a story today about a man who had 126 covid vaccines and guess what? He had a stellar immune response and never got covid. Never had any side affects either. Tell this story to your friends who think the vaccines are killing people.

Scienceisnotopinions, 2 months ago to random

If governments want people back to work then they should work towards eradicating covid. I think it can be done.

Scienceisnotopinions, 2 months ago to random

Question: why is the CDC really minimizing covid? Are they just telling the public what they want to hear?

Scienceisnotopinions, 2 months ago to random

If one more person tells me that covid is over I'm going to scream. 🤯

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 2 months ago to auscovid19

Experts Can’t Agree If We’re Still in a Pandemic | Time.com

#PandmicIsNotOver @auscovid19

Source: https://time.com/6898943/is-covid-19-still-pandemic-2024/

What’s a pandemic, anyway? Epidemiologists consider a disease “endemic” when it spreads in a consistent way, as the flu does each winter in the Northern Hemisphere. An endemic level of disease is the baseline amount for a particular area, which might not be zero but is at least predictable. If a disease suddenly causes a higher-than-average number of cases in a set area, the situation becomes an “epidemic.” The definition for a “pandemic”—when an epidemic crosses borders, infecting lots of people across multiple countries or continents—is perhaps the squishiest of all. Calling something a pandemic is essentially a “judgment call,” because “there isn’t a precise number” of cases, hospitalizations, deaths, or affected countries that definitively denotes one, says Dr. Jonathan Quick, an adjunct professor at the Duke Global Health Institute and author of The End of Epidemics. “Anybody who gives you a precise number is just pulling it out of their head.” Using that label is, in some ways, as much a political and public-relations decision as it is an epidemiological one. “If you’re trying to really reduce the number of deaths, you’ve got to be very strategic in what you do,” says Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota. Language is part of the calculus; in that it can spur action from officials and the public alike.
That reported definition doesn’t include numbers, but it does lay out more precise ground rules for what constitutes a pandemic. The pathogen in question must be contagious, novel—since humans don’t have significant preexisting immunity to it—and virulent enough to cause lots of death and disease, overwhelming health systems and disrupting society in the process. Is COVID-19 still a pandemic, or is it endemic? Under those terms, SARS-CoV-2 still has some pandemic-y features. It’s still highly transmissible and circulating widely in countries around the world, and it remains a major cause of death and disability globally. But it isn’t novel anymore, says Katherine Xue, a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University who has studied viral evolution. The majority of the world’s population now has some immunity to the virus through vaccination, prior infection, or both, which means that “even a new viral variant is probably not going to be able to infect everybody” in the way the original strain could in 2020, she says. COVID-19’s spread isn’t perfectly predictable—new variants are emerging all the time, causing spikes in infections all year round rather than seasonally—but it is consistently circulating around the world. To Xue, that means it’s fair to call it endemic. “The picture of COVID that we have now is probably going to be very similar to what we have four years from now, [whereas] the way we dealt with COVID was very different four years ago,” she says.
Does the label matter? Saying a pandemic is over also sends a message to the public that they can move on—assuming, of course, that they haven’t already. Lots of people stopped paying attention long before COVID-19’s four-year anniversary, and “the pandemic is over for them” regardless of how much experts debate the right vocabulary to use, Osterholm says. Contrast that with the daily lives of people who remain especially vulnerable to the disease— including those who are elderly, immunocompromised, or coping with Long COVID—and it can feel like we’re living in separate timelines, Osterholm says. “Is the pandemic over for some people earlier than it is for others?” Osterholm says. “The key messaging is not about terminology, but about what behaviors are appropriate,” he says. For people who still observe the pandemic, those behaviors won’t be at all surprising. Experts recommend getting vaccinated, staying home when you’re actively sick, getting tested and treated if necessary, and considering additional precautions like wearing a mask and improving ventilation. But with emergency declarations expired, mandates gone, and public guidance relaxing, whether you choose to do those things is now largely up to you. “We’re in a different place with COVID,” CDC director Cohen says. Is that place a pandemic? It seems that’s also up to you.

currentbias, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

Well fuck, it's "time to write a reference-laden analysis of the WHO's March 11 downgrade of SARSCoV2 from biosafety level 3 to biosafety level 2" o'clock

Didn't actually think we would go backwards on #CovidIsAirborne

Oh, and on the anniversary of the pandemic declaration, too. At this point it seems beyond speculation that this is a genuine coverup. None of the scientific literature whatsoever backs up this decision, and the usual chorus of actual scientists will be vehemently opposed

Scienceisnotopinions, 2 months ago to random

An article on LC I just read says that T-Cell disruption is the cause of the problem. Of course we knew that but it still doesn't say who gets it and who doesn't. It has nothing to do with your present health it's just luck of the draw and that makes it very scary.

Jgmeadows, 2 months ago to random

If the US manages to avoid a Trumpian dictatorship in November (and I don't think the odds are good) will Americans pause for sober reflection on how close they came to losing ther democracy or in a fit of American Exceptionalism will they just pat themselves on the back and claim "only America" could have avoided this calamity? #uspol

Scienceisnotopinions, 2 months ago to random

I'm hearing that so many people are on anti-anxiety meds for avoiding covid. These people are the victims of failure of our public health system and our government and yet they are drugging everyone who complains about this pandemic. This is really messed up folks.

Scienceisnotopinions, 2 months ago to random

I keep hearing, lots of people with new health problems. What could it be? 🤷‍♀️