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#SarsCoV2

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Tom Kindlon

News Release 12-Aug-2025

"What exactly is Long COVID? New UCLA research shows the answer depends on whom you ask: Lack of a standard definition leads to widely varying estimates, complicating care and research"

eurekalert.org/news-releases/1

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#LongCovid #PASC #PwLC #postcovid #postcovid19 #LC #Covidlonghaulers #PostCovidSyndrome #longhaulers #COVIDBrain #NeuroPASC

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#COVID19 #COVID #COVID_19 #COVIDー19 #SARSCoV2

Tom Kindlon

From Germany:

"Energy levels decreased on average by ∼2% with each cognitive therapy session (total of 488 sessions, p = 0.0057) and by ∼5% with active therapy sessions"

frontiersin.org/journals/rehab

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@longcovid
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A recent common cold may nearly halve risk of COVID-19, study suggests

So Covid-Competent folks - this is going to land different in different quarters.

  • The previously evidence-supported paradigm/metaphor "the immune system is a candle not a muscle" might need to be abandoned for a third, more nuanced position[+]
  • Of course there's the need to check the paper itself, and if it's solid, to replicate / validate, but beyond that.
  • Folks with immune dysregulation can't all just catch rhinoviruses all the time to keep the system active.

[+] probably approximately: "microbes vary:

  • some are overwhelmingly beneficial, eg. in our gut;
  • some have mixed costs and benefits like rhinovirus or conditions when they become pathological like candida, and
  • some basically only have costs like influenza(?), SARS1 and SARS2, measles"

re: cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/recent

www.cidrap.umn.eduA recent common cold may nearly halve risk of COVID-19, study suggestsAmong COVID-infected participants, recent rhinovirus infection was tied to a 9.6-fold lower SARS-CoV-2 viral load, or amount of virus in the body. 
#COVID#COVID19#SARSCoV2
Tom Kindlon

US press release:

"the researchers found that these viral peptides were demonstrated in each subject, but not each blood draw, in the EVs of Long COVID patients & were not detected in a separate control group of pre-pandemic EV samples"

eurekalert.org/news-releases/1

@longcovid
#LongCovid #PASC #PwLC #postcovid #postcovid19 #LC #Covidlonghaulers #PostCovidSyndrome #longhaulers #COVIDBrain #NeuroPASC

@covid19 #Coronavirus
#COVID19 #COVID #COVID_19 #COVIDー19 #SARSCoV2

Tom Kindlon

Financial burden of patients with post-acute COVID-19 syndrome

link.springer.com/article/10.1

"PCS patients in Germany suffer from a high financial double burden of loss of income and additional costs due to [out-of-pocket payments] diagnostics and therapies."

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#CovidBrain
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SpringerLinkFinancial burden of patients with post-acute COVID-19 syndrome - Journal of Public HealthAim The present study aimed to analyze the financial burden of German patients with Post‐acute COVID‐19 syndrome (PCS) and its predictors exploratively. Information regarding the financial burden of PCS patients and its predictors is of vital importance to identify patients at high risk and address the support needed by this patient group. Subject and methods As no established diagnostic process or therapy exists, many PCS patients are dissatisfied with standard health care and engage in out-of-pocket payments (OOPPs) for diagnostics and therapy. This is particularly problematic as they often experience a simultaneous change of employment status and loss of income. In the present cross-sectional study, data on financial burden (changes in employment status, loss of income, OOPPs) were assessed via a self-report online questionnaire. Results PCS is a high subjective financial burden for 91.0% of the participants. About 80% of the PCS patients reported high financial losses due to loss of income and high costs due to OOPPs. A wide spectrum of conventional and complementary / alternative diagnostic and therapeutic procedures was reported. The most frequent type of OOPP diagnostics were vitamin level tests (56.2%), antibody detection (43.8%), and trace element level tests (42.4%). The most frequent type of OOPP therapies were dietary supplements (67.1%), osteopathy (30.1%), physiotherapy / physical therapy (28.2%), relaxation techniques (24.2%), and acupuncture (20.7%). In regression analyses, change of employment status was predicted by income, type of health care insurance, subjective impairments in day-to-day-life, physician contacts, Post-COVID-Clinic, and contact with a support group. High loss of income was predicted by sex, higher education, change of employment status, income, type of health care insurance, subjective impairments in day-to-day-life, and physician contacts. High OOPPs were predicted by education, health status pre PCS, subjective impairments in day-to-day-life, physician contacts, contact to alternative / complementary practitioners, and contact to a support group. Conclusions PCS patients in Germany suffer from a high financial double burden of loss of income and additional costs due to OOPP diagnostics and therapies. Until effective PCS therapies are implemented in standard care, patients should receive medical information and counseling. Also, the public should be informed regarding non-effective PCS therapies.
Eric's Risk Assessment

Impact of ventilation and ambient temperature on #COVID19 transmission in clinic waiting rooms: A computational fluid dynamics approach | PLOS One

> Key findings demonstrated that effective ventilation, through open windows and mechanical systems, can reduce virus-laden aerosol concentrations by up to 99.3% under optimal conditions (e.g., from 5.80 kg/m3 to 0.04 kg/m3) By contrast, poorly ventilated scenarios exhibit significantly higher viral concentrations, which can rise as high as 5.80 kg/m3.

journals.plos.org/plosone/arti

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Tom Kindlon

From Canada:
"the high prevalence of new-onset chronic symptoms in the latter stages of the pandemic is concerning, especially considering that most infections occurred post-vaccination"

bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/7/e

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@ducky thanks for excerpting this too

on 7 June 2025, among influenza-like illness (i.e upper respiratory diseases) cases the province has test data for:

53.6% were COVID-19;
23.2% were entero/rhinoviruses;
8.0% were parainfluenza;
5.9% were influenza A or B;
3.7% were adenoviruses;
2.5% were RSV;
2.2% were metapneumonia viruses;
0.9% were “common cold” coronaviruses.

#COVID19#BCPoli#PublicHealth
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About half of a large group of people with Long COVID at an outpatient clinic recovered within half a year - and half did not:

the early recovery (ER) group (370 cases; 47.8%), who recovered in less than 180 days (median 33 days), and the persistent-symptom (PS) group (404 cases; 52.2%),

Also above, a quarter recovered within about the first month, while some patients had still not recovered longer than three years later - when the study stopped gathering data. And:

In the PS group, a majority of both male and female patients complained of fatigue

mdpi.com/2077-0383/14/14/4918

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