Tag: Long COVID

ECP NetHappenigs #LongCovid

ECP NetHappenigs #LongCovid

I can start with an uncomfortable question: Why is a ‘respiratory virus’ replicating inside the large intestine 676 days post-COVID-19 infection? #LongCovid
https://www.statnews.com/2024/07/03/long-covid-ucsf-study-finds-virus-presence-years-post-infection/

New research shows COVID’s impact is more prolonged than previously thought, with signs of inflammation and traces of virus detectable years after infection.

The results raise uncomfortable questions about long-term health implications that we are only beginning to understand.

Science Translational Medicine
Current Issue
a RESEARCH ARTICLE CORONAVIRUS
First release papers
Tissue-based T cell activation and viral RNA persist for
up to 2 years after SARS-CoV-2 infection
MICHAEL J. PELUSO O, DYLAN RYDER O, ROBERT R. FLAVELL O, YINGBING WANG, JELENA LEVI O, BRIAN H. LAFRANCHI O, TYLER-MARIE DE-VEAU O,
AMANDA M. BUCK O, SADIE E. MUNTER, […1, AND TIMOTHY J. HENRICH +25 authors Authors Info & Affiliations
SCIENCE TRANSLATIONAL MEDICINE
• 3 Jul 2024 • Vol 16, Issue 754 •
DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.adk3295
https://www.smartquantai.com/
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Fig. 6. SARS-CoV-2 single-stranded spike protein—encoding RNA was identified in rectosigmoid tissue of
individuals with LC months to years after acute infection.

Long Covid

59% of long Covid patients had organ damage a year later
Organ damage persisted in 59% of long Covid patients a year after initial symptoms, even in those not severely affected when first diagnosed with the virus, according to a comprehensive new study co-led by a UCL researcher.

Risk of Long Covid after reinfection by Omicron is almost 20%. The results of this study were widely reported but seem to have had little impact on policy or public attitudes.

Major media outlets somehow have a near complete blackout on #COVID and #LongCovid issues recently. The effects on our society are palpable but near invisible when media is contributing to a blackout of coverage. It should make us ask why.

More than 70% of US household COVID spread started with a child, study suggests

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Disinfo, AI, and Long Covid

The people that wear good masks in public, despite the immense pressure not to, are the true heroes of our time.

Healthcare workers: Children’s hospitals are bursting at the seams. ICUs are full, and emergency department wait times are inhumane.
Everyone is sick. Please help!
Government: Nothing to see here.

14% of Americans have Long Covid. 46,000,000 people.

How severe is #LongCovid for the up to 1 in 5 infected?

We now know:
• 75% experience limitations in their daily activities
• 25% experience severe limitations
• 25% experience no limitations
This means up to 1 in 7 infected experience some disability from infection.

This is also 100% consistent with employment data that shows 3/4 of #LongCovid patients can’t work at same levels prior infection & 1/4 can’t work at all. It’s the same numbers every time.

https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S2589-5370%2821%2900299-6

Misinformed New World

The Supply of Disinformation Will Soon Be Infinite

Disinformation campaigns used to require a lot of human effort, but artificial intelligence will take them to a whole new level.

@GaryMarcus
“the supply of misinformation will soon be infinite”—incredibly prescient Sept 2020 piece by @noUpside @TheAtlantic

Alice Donovan was a “persona account”—a fictitious figure—created by the Main Directorate, the Russian military-intelligence agency commonly known as the GU.

Then: #GPT-3 was expensive & private Now: Any troll farm can build a custom version trained on their own favorite lies, for $450k
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/09/future-propaganda-will-be-computer-generated/616400/

The world of neuroscience speaks of “repeating stereotypical microcircuits composed of different neuron subtypes” and “ensembles”.

In software engineering, we call such things “design patterns”. ~ Grady Booch
The Laboratory of Neural Microcircuitry (LNMC), headed by Professor Henry Markram, is dedicated to understanding the structure, function and plasticity of the neural microcircuits, with emphasis on the neocortex.

Meta does not directly sell user data.
Does Meta misuse data? Has it violated a number of national laws? Has it lost track of the data it does hold? All of these are well documented.
The world of artificial intelligence in general and machine learning in particular is still on a journey to rediscover the basic principles of software engineering.

Long COVID: Six At-Risk Groups Identified

As medical experts continue to exert effort in better understanding long COVID, they have identified six groups of people who might be the most at risk of developing the post-COVID syndrome.

https://www.medicaldaily.com/long-covid-six-risk-groups-identified-465815

Despite the extensive case reports and studies conducted on long COVID, the condition remains a medical mystery. Scientists are still unable to tell what really causes it, so medical experts turned their attention to how they can help prevent the cases from growing.

Pfizer Tests Pill That Could Prevent Covid Infection

Pfizer is investigating an oral antiviral drug that could prevent Covid-19 infection after being exposed to the virus, the company announced Monday, as scientists around the world work to develop new tools to fight Covid-19 and ease the burden on overwhelmed hospitals.

Could I catch COVID at an outdoor wedding or picnic?
YES

 

Get Ready for the Forever Plague
Public health officials’ COVID complacency has opened the door to new illnesses and devastating long-term damage

In response officials have largely abandoned any coherent response, including masking, testing, tracing and even basic data collection.

Yes, the people have been abandoned.

So don’t expect “normal” to return to your hospital, your airport, your nation, your community or your life anytime soon.