Category: Long COVID
Dr Anthony Fauci: long Covid is an ‘insidious’ public health emergency
Guardian – Dr. Fauci urged US Congress to avoid complacency and resume funding to combat the virus as well as long Covid, a chronic and prolonged illness that continues to elude scientists and healthcare providers. “It’s a very insidious beneath-the-radar-screen public health emergency,” Fauci said via Zoom. “It isn’t that you have people who are […]
Oct 18, 2022
Outcomes among confirmed cases and a matched comparison group in the Long-COVID in Scotland study
Nature – With increasing numbers infected by SARS-CoV-2, understanding long-COVID is essential to inform health and social care support. A Scottish population cohort of 33,281 laboratory-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infections and 62,957 never-infected individuals were followed-up via 6, 12 and 18-month questionnaires and linkage to hospitalization and death records. Of the 31,486 symptomatic infections,1,856 (6%) had not […]
Oct 13, 2022
Use of Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing to Evaluate Long COVID-19 Symptoms in Adults
JAMA – In this systematic review and meta-analysis of 38 studies comprising 2160 participants, exercise capacity was reduced by 4.9 mL/kg/min among individuals with symptoms consistent with LC compared with individuals without symptoms more than 3 months after SARS-CoV-2 infection. Findings among individuals with exertional intolerance suggest that deconditioning, dysfunctional breathing, chronotropic incompetence, and abnormal […]
Oct 13, 2022
Studies suggest role for exercise testing in long COVID, impact of initial symptoms
CIDRAP – Two studies published today reveal new findings on long COVID, with one showing a possible role for cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) for the evaluation of persistent symptoms, and the other finding a link between symptomatic infection and poor quality of life and reduced ability to complete daily activities. Continue reading
Oct 13, 2022
Long COVID Persists in People With Symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infection
MedPageToday – Long COVID — defined as one or more clusters of symptoms lasting 3 months or longer — occurred in about 6% of people with symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection, a modeling study based on 1.2 million global COVID patients showed. After adjusting for pre-COVID health status, an estimated 6.2% (95% uncertainty interval [UI] 2.4-13.3) of […]
Oct 11, 2022
Long COVID: Scientists find 20 blood protein ‘signatures’ that may point to risk
Med News Today – Researchers published their findings comparing blood samples from healthcare workers who had contracted SARS-CoV-2 and healthcare workers who had not. They found that blood protein levels within six weeks of contracting SARS-CoV-2 could predict long COVID incidence. “These changes in the blood that we observe shortly after infection indicate how the […]
Oct 4, 2022
Characteristics of long COVID among older adults: a cross-sectional study
International Journal of Infectious Diseases – 2333 individuals were evaluated at an average of 5 months [146 days (95% CI 142-150)] following COVID-19 onset. Mean age was 51 and 20.5% were>65 years. Older adults were more likely to be symptomatic, with most common symptoms being fatigue (38%) and dyspnea (30%). They were more likely to […]
Oct 4, 2022
Older patients more likely to report long-COVID symptoms
CIDRAP – Among patients seen at long-COVID clinics in four countries, older people were the most likely to report symptoms and have abnormal chest imaging and lung function tests, finds a study published late last week in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases. Researchers in Israel, Italy, Spain, and Switzerland followed 2,333 COVID-19 survivors for an average of […]
Oct 4, 2022
Long Covid Has Become a Parallel Pandemic
Bloomberg – There are millions of long-haulers in the US alone, and there will be millions more if we don’t develop better vaccines and treatments. The price of “living with Covid” in a free and open society is turning out to be much heftier than public health experts predicted. Even with good vaccines and treatments, […]
Oct 3, 2022
New Guidance Focuses on Long COVID in Kids
Med Page Today – When it comes to long COVID in children, physicians should focus on mitigating symptoms and encouraging multidisciplinary rehabilitation designed to improve age-appropriate development, according to new clinical guidance from the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (AAPM&R). Long COVID can present differently in children, so standard practices for managing the […]
Sep 29, 2022