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Impact on the nervous system of long COVID-19 infection in children (Impacto en el sistema nervioso de la infección COVID-19 larga en niños) - Published Sept 24, 2024

In English y en Español

Abstract Background The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had a profound global impact, raising concerns about its long-term effects, particularly neurological complications. While studies have highlighted such complications in adults, there is a paucity of research focusing on children.

Objective To examine the medium- to long-term neurological and cognitive symptoms in 18 year old children and below with positive versus negative COVID-19 antigens and to identify the probable risk factors to promote specific health actions.

Methods An observational study was carried out to determine neurological symptoms in the medium and long terms after COVID 19. A random sample of 124 children, both symptomatic or asymptomatic, tested positive or negative for COVID-19 through swab tests.

Results Neurological symptoms were assessed between 6 to 12 months and 2 years after the infection. Acute symptoms, including headache, anosmia, ageusia, and myalgia, were observed in more than 20% of the children, but they generally resolved within 6 to 12 months. Persistent functional difficulties, such as in studying, paying attention, and socializing, were reported in 3% of the cases. Behavioral symptoms at baseline were noted in 7.8% of children, but they were remitted in most cases, except for those with prior involvement.

Conclusion These findings underscore the need for continued monitoring of children following COVID-19 infection and the importance of tailored health interventions.

Resumen Antecedentes La pandemia por enfermedad por coronavirus 2019 (coronavirus disease 2019, COVID-19, en inglés) ha tenido un profundo impacto global y ha generado preocupación sobre sus efectos a largo plazo, especialmente sobre las complicaciones neurológicas. Si bien los estudios han destacado tales complicaciones en adultos, hay escasez de investigaciones centradas en niños.

Objetivo Examinar los síntomas neurológicos y cognitivos a mediano y largo plazo en niños de 18 años o menos, con antígenos positivos versus negativos para COVID-19, e identificar los posibles factores de riesgo para promover acciones de salud específicas.

Métodos Se llevó a cabo un estudio observacional para determinar los síntomas neurológicos en el medio y largo plazo tras COVID-19. Una muestra aleatoria de 124 niños se diagnosticó por tests de saliva. Los tests para COVID-19 podían ser negativos o positivos, en niños sintomáticos o asintomáticos.

Resultados Los síntomas neurológicos se evaluaron entre 6 y 12 meses y 2 años posinfección. Se observaron síntomas agudos como cefalea, anosmia, ageusia y mialgias en más del 20% de los niños, que generalmente se resolvieron en un plazo de 6 a 12 meses. En el 3% de los casos, se informaron dificultades funcionales persistentes, como para estudiar, prestar atención y socializar. Los síntomas conductuales se produjeron en el 7.8% en el momento inicial, pero remitieron en la mayoría de los casos, excepto en aquellos con afectación previa.

Conclusión Estos hallazgos enfatizan la necesidad del monitoreo continuo de niños tras la infección por COVID-19 y la importancia de intervenciones de salud personalizadas.

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Another preprint showing advanced covid evolution via zoonosis

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I'm honestly still sore so many people mocked me for worrying about covid reservoirs forming among wild deer. These are captive deer, but we can assume similar mechanics work among wild deer.

Abstract White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) have high value for research, conservation, agriculture and recreation, and may be important SARS-CoV-2 reservoirs with unknown human health implications. In November 2023, we sampled 15 female deer in a captive facility in central Texas, USA. All individuals had neutralizing antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 and 11 had RT-qPCR-positive respiratory swabs; one also had a positive rectal swab. Six of 11 respiratory swabs yielded infectious virus with replication kinetics of most samples displaying lower growth 24-48 h post infection in vitro when compared to Omicron lineages isolated from humans in Texas in the same period. However, virus growth was similar between groups by 72 h, suggesting no strong attenuation of deer-derived virus. All deer viruses clustered in XBB Omicron clade, with more mutations than expected compared to contemporaneous viruses in humans, suggesting that crossing the species barrier to deer was accompanied by a high substitution rate.

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Don’t let Chrome’s big redesign distract you from the fact that Chrome’s invasive new ad platform, ridiculously branded the “Privacy Sandbox,” is also getting a widespread rollout in Chrome today. If you haven’t been following this, this feature will track the web pages you visit and generate a list of advertising topics that it will share with web pages whenever they ask, and it’s built directly into the Chrome browser. It’s been in the news previously as “FLoC” and then the “Topics API,” and despite widespread opposition from just about every non-advertiser in the world, Google owns Chrome and is one of the world’s biggest advertising companies, so this is being railroaded into the production builds.

Use Firefox.

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Stuff like this radicalizes me. How is this the best system we have?

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Israel has destroyed at least 70% of the homes in the Strip and the majority of shops and markets there, including those selling clothing, in addition to limiting Palestinian merchants' ability to coordinate the entry of goods with Israeli authorities. Consequently, the total number of trucks entering the Gaza Strip in the past period contained aid that did not exceed 6% of the population's daily needs — the majority of which are related to food supplies-and the clothing and shoes allowed to enter the enclave did not exceed 0.001% of residents' needs.

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So this is what Israel will refer to when they insist that they, in fact, did allow aid into Gaza. Just like they kept the entire Gaza population on a restricted calorie diet up to 2007, they are now starving over 2 million people so that they are in their weakest state in the middle of winter, with no shelter and no clothing either, with bombs hailing down on them nonstop.

Israel is attempting every annihilation strategy against Gaza, both slow and quick.

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You think THATS a denim jacket?

Surely you

Jest

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fun with greenscreen & hercules graphics & windows 3.1

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“nobody in miami knows how to drive” “nobody in austin knows how to drive” “nobody in chicago knows how to drive” maybe we shouldnt have cars

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ok last thing. but what people fundamentally need to get through their heads is the significance of gaza fundraisers not being the same as like mutual aid when you're helping someone get groceries, because it is a genocide. there is insane deliberate scarcity and prices are unmanageable, because there is nowhere nearly enough for everyone, so only people who can pay can eat. and what positioning individual fundraisers as the only course of action does is quite simply give a tiny percentage of random people whose fundraisers take off the ability to pay those prices while thousands of others can't. and every one of those thousands of people without a fundraiser is suffering through the same inconceivably horrific reality. it is giving a few completely desperate people out of hundreds of thousands a slightly more favorable position in a horrific war economy of imposed scarcity. and what grassroots community kitchens do is try to mitigate in some small way that inconceivable hierarchy of who can pay and who can't, by stretching ingredients as far as they can last to cook meals at large scale and give them out at no cost. and obviously people are still going to send money to their friends and families because this is hell what else are we supposed to do but please just think about that before promoting endless individual fundraisers as somehow the most ethical way to help

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everyone keeps talking about men being radicalized etc etc but no one mentioning the elephant in the room that majority of white women voted for trump too

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gotta love how Germany's giving citizenship to asylum seekers who enlist to fight for Israel. absolutely genocidal behaviour