🇯🇵Japanese Empress Emerita Michiko, 89, has tested positive for COVID-19.
"This is her first infection with the novel coronavirus."
🇯🇵Japanese Empress Emerita Michiko, 89, has tested positive for COVID-19.
"This is her first infection with the novel coronavirus."
🇫🇷 France: Cases of Covid-19 have been rising in France over the month of May.
Hospitalisations are increasing amid rising cases of the new ‘FLiRT’ variant.
From May 20-26, emergency admissions and hospitalisations for suspected Covid-19 continued to rise “for the sixth week running” SPF said, with 575 compared with 427 the previous week. This represents an increase of 35% across all age groups.
By Prof Deborah Lupton Master of Public Health, PhD @DALupton
"COVID can cause new health problems even 3 years after infection, study finds - and even for those who had a ‘mild case’ "
Source: https://fortune.com/well/article/covid-cause-new-health-problems-years-after-infection/
Study: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-024-02987-8
Twitter/X source: https://twitter.com/DALupton/status/1796293523106590758
By Andrew Hewat @AndrewHewat
Vic Covid update:
"The number of people in hospital with COVID-19 has decreased this week. The 7day average is 319 compared to 347 last week."
But "Current trends indicate high levels of COVID-19 activity in Victoria."
Hopefully this wave already peaked but def high risk still.
#COVID19 #Victoria @auscovid19
Source: https://www.health.vic.gov.au/infectious-diseases/victorian-covid-19-surveillance-report
Twitter/X source: https://twitter.com/AndrewHewat/status/1796323112482705474
🇺🇸US weekly COVID update: 54,000 new cases and sadly 434 deaths.
"So far this year, nearly 3.3 million COVID cases have been reported in the U.S., causing 283,605 hospitalizations and 29,370 deaths."
#COVID19US #COVIDisNotOver @auscovid19
Source: https://twitter.com/BNOFeed/status/1795195062193619142
🇳🇿"New Zealand is experiencing its highest peak in COVID-19 cases since December 2022, professor Michael Baker says."
"Despite the recommended isolation period now only being 5 days, Baker suggested people still getting a positive Covid-19 test wait to test again on day 6 or 7 before going back into society."
"The biology hasn't changed," Baker said, but there was more pressure for people to go back to work and school."
World Health Organization (WHO) @WHO
#COVID19 ranked among the top 3 leading causes of death globally in 2020 and 2021, responsible for 13 million lives lost.
In most regions of the world, it was among the top 5 causes of death. In the Americas, it was the number 1 cause of death.
🇦🇺 Australia: COVID keeps killing more people every month than flu does in a year.
“In other words, there were three times as many confirmed Covid-19 cases as influenza cases,” Adrian Esterman, professor of biostatistics at the University of South Australia, told TND.
“And the death rate associated with Covid-19 was about four times as high as for influenza.”
He said it was “completely crazy that face masks are not mandatory in all health care, hospital and aged-care settings”.
#COVIDisNotOver #PandemicIsNotOver #COVIDisAIRBONE @auscovid19
Source: https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/life/2024/05/22/covid-kills-more-people-than-flu
NSW: Flu cases set to surge as NSW battles trio of viruses.
"A mix of influenza, COVID-19 and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) has been swirling around the state at the start of flu season, triggering a rise in hospital visits."
@NSWHealth @auscovid19
Is long COVID forever? A new study has clues.
"A new study shows that an abnormally active immune system, a characteristic of long COVID patients, largely subsides two years after the initial infection."
Study: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-47720-8
Source: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/premium/article/long-covid-inflammation-immune-recover
By Martha Young- JD, MBA, N95-clean the air: @mryoung151
"Without a current PCR test, you have no idea who has COVID in a room and neither do the carriers." 👇
Twitter Source: https://twitter.com/mryoung151/status/1784402909179805734
Source: https://pdflink.to/yale-covid-19-immune-system-impacts/
🇬🇧UK: 2 million Britons suffer long COVID symptoms, survey shows | reuters.com
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."
"If the 1918 flu pandemic caused a noticeable spike in heart disease over the following 50 years then what could a virus with a greater propensity for heart infiltration like SARS-CoV-2 cause?"
“I think that COVID is setting us up for a hundred years of problems.”
#COVID19 #heartdiseaseepidemic @auscovid19
Source: https://newatlas.com/health-wellbeing/covid-flu-heart-disease-epidemic/
Hidden Long COVID crisis deepens in New Zealand.
"A Long COVID registry, established in July last year, showed that most sufferers were in the mid-40s age bracket, often needing to work while looking after households. Most were healthy before COVID."
"According to the New Zealand researchers, there are more than 200 individual symptoms linked to Long COVID, with the dominant ones being fatigue and brain fog. While some are mild and transient, other effects can be life-altering, including heart attacks, strokes, diabetes, chronic fatigue syndrome and a range of neurological effects."
#LongCOVID #NewZealand @auscovid19
Source: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/04/10/sszl-a10.html
Long COVID blood clues could prompt future trials | bbc.com
"People with long COVID have evidence of continuing inflammation in their blood, which could help understanding of the condition and how it may be treated, a UK study suggests."
Mandating indoor air quality for public buildings | science.org
Omicron linked to more long COVID-19 cases: study
"Epidemiologist Mulu Woldegiorgis said the findings show the Omicron variant puts patients at greater risk of developing long COVID than previously thought."
#Omicron #longCOVID @auscovid19
Source: https://thewest.com.au/news/coronavirus/omicron-linked-to-more-long-covid-19-cases-study-c-14116384
🇧🇷 Brazil: Jair Bolsonaro faked his COVID-19 shot, Brazil police say
"Jair Bolsonaro planted false information in a government database to make it appear that he, his 12-year-old daughter and members of his entourage had received the COVID-19 jab, police said"
#COVID19 #Brazil #JairBolsonaro #COVIDjab @auscovid19
Source: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2024/03/19/jair-bolsonaro-fake-covid-vaccine/73028665007/
Media celebrated Long COVID Awareness Day by denying its existence. By Julia Doubleday
"Long COVID is a thorn in the side of "back to normal." Attempts to silence patients are intensifying."
Source: https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/media-celebrated-long-covid-awareness
The Isolation of Having Long COVID as Society Moves On | Time.com
"As of January 2024, 17% of American adults have reported experiencing symptoms of Long COVID according to data from the NCHS — up from an estimated 14% in fall of 2023."
"Fisher says she struggles to get people around her to understand what Long COVID is, and that task is only growing more challenging as the pandemic fades out of the public conversation. “How do I talk about it when people just want to forget about it?” she says. “I don't get to forget. I live with it every single day. My body lives with it, my mind lives with it. But how do you bring that into conversation?”
Source: https://time.com/6852852/long-covid-pandemic-anniversary/
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