#COVID-19 studies

[rikaklassen]

CW: COVID-19

via @augieray@mastodon.social

Yes, I wish the general public takes COVID more seriously.

Coronavirus is not like the flu nor RSV and we've known about that since MERS and the first SARS. Also, massively disappointed with queer assimilationists since COVID is quite similar to HIV/AIDS and given how the government's eugenicist policies and their anti-LGBT campaigns wiped out many of the people who would have been elders in our communities today. Let's alone the deaf communities with the older generations of sign language folks becoming deaf and multi-disabled because of rubella, which is much more infectious than COVID.

I encourage you to read what Augie has to say since the screenshot is a snapshot of a five-parts thread.

Here is the spreadsheet where Augie took the time to read over 1 500 studies and summarized the findings of about 500 of them: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12VbMkvqUF9eSggJsdsFEjKs5x0ABxQJi5tvfzJIDd3U/

[wormsngods]

The worst consequence of COVID was educational institutes realising they can conduct online classes.

[bulllinachinashop]

Why do the years 2020 and 2019 seem so long ago? Whenever someone mentions “yeah 2019 I did-“ oh you mean during the depression? the invisible plague that wreaked havoc across the globe? do you still feel 17? 12? 18? 26? Your older know, not just physically, mentally you’ve aged fifty years. 2019 wasn’t five years ago, it was a lifetime ago, it was another world ago, another you. I mourn each time you mention it.

[lifewithchronicpain]

Rates of chronic pain and high-impact pain have risen sharply in the United States since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, which could be due to an increase in sedentary lifestyles and reduced access to healthcare.

In a study preprinted in medRxiv, researchers estimate that 60 million Americans in 2023 had chronic pain, up from 50 million in 2019. The study is based on results from the 2019, 2021 and 2023 National Health Interview Surveys (NHIS) of a nationally representative sample of about 88,500 U.S. adults.

Caution is warranted when research is preprinted before undergoing peer-review, but the findings here are startling. Rates of chronic pain (CP) rose from 20.6% in 2019 (before the pandemic), to 20.9% in 2021, before surging to 24.3% in 2023.

High impact chronic pain (HICP), which is pain strong enough to limit daily life and work activity, also rose from 7.5% of adults in 2019 to 8.5% in 2023. That translates to 21 million Americans living with debilitating pain.

“Chronic pain and high-impact chronic pain surged dramatically after the COVID pandemic. The widely-cited 20% prevalence of CP in the adult US population appears obsolete,” wrote co-authors Anna Zajacova, PhD, at Western University in Ontario and Hanna Grol-Prokopczyk, PhD, at the University of Buffalo.

“Our findings indicated that chronic pain, already a widespread issue, has reached new heights in the post-pandemic era, necessitating urgent attention and intervention strategies to address and alleviate this growing health crisis.”

The increases in pain occurred in almost all body areas, such as the head, abdomen, back, arms, hands, hips, knees and feet, except for jaw and dental pain. All age groups and both sexes were affected. (Read more at link)

And with more doctors than ever before unwilling or unable to prescribe opioids for actual pain relief.

[hamstringy]

idk if this is like a whole phenomenon borne out of like time elapsing since 2020/2021 or if I’m just like. overthinking it but more and more people around me are opening up about sneaking people into their dorms in 2020 or partying in the college park at night in 2020. I thought we all took at least 2020 mandates seriously????

[covid-safer-hotties]

Reference archived on our website (More than 1,000 scientific sources, and even more news, opinion, and resources! Daily updates!)

Long covid is a complicated thing. Mask up and take precautions to prevent covid so you don't have to learn about its effects the hard way.

Abstract

Introduction: This study investigated the quality of sleep in a sample of individuals from Southern Italy after the major waves of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the aim of evaluating how sleep patterns changed.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted between March 2022 and January 2023 and involved adults who had a COVID-19 infection, who were invited to complete a self-administered online questionnaire.

Results: A total of 408 individuals participated in the survey. Overall, 66.4% had a reduction in social relations; 72.1% had an increase in the use of social media; and 86%, 77.2%, and 71.1% reported an extremely severe level of anxiety, stress, and depression, respectively. Almost all of the respondents had a Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index score (PSQI) ≥5, indicating poor sleep quality. Subjects with a severe or extremely severe depression score, a severe or extremely severe stress score, who had a job, and who had someone close who died because of a COVID-19 infection were more likely to have a high PSQI global score. The use of sleep medication in the past months was significantly higher in those who were older, who had a job, who had a COVID-19 infection in the first and second waves, who had someone close who died from COVID-19, and who did not have changes in social relationships during the pandemic. Moreover, participants with severe or extremely severe depression scores, with severe or extremely severe stress scores, who were women, and who were older had troubles staying awake while engaging in social activities during the past month.

Conclusion: The results bring to light the high prevalence of poor sleep quality among individuals who were infected with SARS-CoV-2. Future research is needed to understand whether these disturbances are still present in the endemic period and whether it is necessary to investigate further determinants that have affected and/or are affecting sleep quality.

[ajarofpickledtears]

I will never understand why people who've had several covid infections can be like "I don't think I'll get vaccinated again because of unspecified potential long term side effects" like

yeah

guess what

covid can, in fact, have long term side effects as well

[i-amusemyself]

so they've now found the New Improved monkeypox that WHO has declared a public health emergency outside of Africa- in Sweden and the US so far

heres me thinking we're facing down the next pandemic as This Current Covid Mess vs bird flu but now here comes fucking monkey pox with the steel chair

[queer-assthetic]

Re the horrific US vaccine misinformation campaign in the Philippines:

USAmericans and privileged citizens from the global north generally must really wake up as to how their governments have minimized COVID to their own populations while simultaneously exploiting the global south and denying them health resources. COVID is still around, it's still a pandemic, it's still killing and disabling people domestically and internationally, and it's worse for people in the global south

In the US, the govt has and is continuing to misrepresent the very real dangers of COVID, how it causes long term disability and death, and how it disproportionately affects people of color - especially trans people of color. The current efforts to ban masks will serve to further criminalize the vulnerable and isolate the disabled. The US has allowed anti science viewpoints to grow rampant in this country to the joy of the right and due to the complacency of the left.

These domestic and international consequences are the result of valuing capitalism and economy over human lives. The result of mainstream eugenics, white supremacy, and individualism.

[pandemic-info]

Using health data from almost 213,000 Americans who experienced reinfections, researchers have found that severe infections from the virus that causes COVID-19 tend to foreshadow similar severity of infection the next time a person contracts the disease. Additionally, scientists discovered that long COVID was more likely to occur after a first infection compared to a reinfection.The study, funded by the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery (RECOVER) Initiative, is published in Communications Medicine.

The analysis used data from electronic health records of 3.1 million Americans who are part of the National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C). Researchers focused on 212,984 people who reported a reinfection. Those individuals were originally infected between March 1, 2020-Dec. 31, 2022, and experienced a second infection by March 2023. Most participants (203,735) had COVID-19 twice, but a small number (478) had it three times or more. COVID-19 vaccines, though not available during the entire study period, correlated with a protective effect.

[kanishkanimsarasblog]

Animation Final Assessment "Life After Covid-19".

Animation Studies.

[singoallala]

So this might be a long shot but I thought this would be interesting for people who suffer from long covid/post covid/whatever you call it in your language: recently a Norwegian study found that a significant number of their long covid patients were actually suffering from asthma (that had likely been triggered by covid). Asthma, which is - you know - treatable! However, the study was very small and more research is needed to say anything definitively, but I thought it might be interesting to look into this if you are struggling with post-covid symptoms. <3

[helalokithor]

The lockdown was difficult because it did not allow me to grow mentally.

My mind is still stuck at 8th grade where I could get 2nd or 3rd position without trying and putting efforts just by studying the night before. But now I'm giving my final exams at 12th grade my brain doesn't know how to put efforts and just procrastinates and i regret everything and have a panic attack the night before. And it will be disastrous once i get to college.

I think i need professional help because everyday my anxiety is getting worse and my friend had to calm me down from attacks through whatsapp.

Can anyone please give me some advice

[lifewithchronicpain]

About 16 million people in the United States have Long Covid, a poorly understood disorder that causes body aches, headaches, fatigue, insomnia, brain fog and other symptoms long after an initial infection with COVID-19. For some, the symptoms are mild, but for other they are so severe they become disabling.

Why do some people quickly recover from Covid, while about one in five have lingering symptoms?

A new animal study found that thousands of genes involved in nervous system function are affected by SARS-CoV-2, and may cause lasting damage to dorsal root ganglia, the spinal nerves that carry pain and other sensory messages to the brain. Scientists believe that genetic damage may be what causes Long Covid.

“Several studies have found that a high proportion of Long Covid patients suffer from abnormal perception of touch, pressure, temperature, pain or tingling throughout the body. Our work suggests that SARS-CoV-2 might induce lasting pain in a rather unique way, emphasizing the need for therapeutics that target molecular pathways specific to this virus,” explains co-author Venetia Zachariou, PhD, chair of pharmacology, physiology & biophysics at Boston University’s Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine. (Read more at link)

[broadlyepieducation]

Anosmia May Indicate further Disability according to new study

Anosmia during COVID-19 may be more than just a temporary loss of smell. New research suggests it's linked to lasting brain alterations, even in mild cases. Read More (with a link to the original study) Here: https://www.broadlyepi.com/emerging-study/anosmia-in-covid-19-a-marker-for-brain-alterations-in-recovered-patients/

[covid-safer-hotties]

Multimodal neuroimaging in Long-COVID and its correlates with cognition 1.8 years after SARS-CoV-2 infection: a cross-sectional study of the Aliança ProHEpiC-19 Cognitiu - Published Sept 12, 2024

Abstract

Introduction: There is a growing interest in the effect of Long-COVID (LC) on cognition, and neuroimaging allows us to gain insight into the structural and functional changes underlying cognitive impairment in LC. We used multimodal neuroimaging data in combination with neuropsychological evaluations to study cognitive complaints in a cohort of LC patients with mild to moderate severity symptoms.

Methods: We conducted a 3T brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) study with diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and functional MRI (fMRI) sequences on 53 LC patients 1.8 years after acute COVID-19 onset. We administered neuropsychological tests to evaluate cognitive domains and examined correlations with Tract-Based Spatial Statistics (TBSS) and resting state.

Results: We included 53 participants with LC (mean age, 48.23 years; 88.7% females). According to the Frascati criteria, more than half of the participants had deficits in the executive (59%) and attentional (55%) domains, while 40% had impairments in the memory domain. Only one participant (1.89%) showed problems in the visuospatial and visuoconstructive domain. We observed that increased radial diffusivity in different white matter tracts was negatively correlated with the memory domain. Our results showed that higher resting state activity in the fronto-parietal network was associated with lower memory performance. Moreover, we detected increased functional connectivity among the bilateral hippocampus, the right hippocampus and the left amygdala, and the right hippocampus and the left middle temporal gyrus. These connectivity patterns were inversely related to memory and did not survive false discovery rate (FDR) correction.

Discussion: People with LC exhibit cognitive impairments linked to long-lasting changes in brain structure and function, which justify the cognitive alterations detected.