#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’e 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.

[thefreethoughtprojectcom]

The new report argues excess deaths between 2020-2023 can largely be attributed to illnesses including certain types of bacterial pneumonia, also known as aspiration pneumonia, that were often misdiagnosed on death certificates as COVID-19.

Read More: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/new-study/covid-didnt-cause-surge-in-excess-deaths-the-pandemic-response-did

#TheFreeThoughtProject

[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.

[rileyedunn]

Caught in the Currents of History: The Fatigue of the 2020s

The exhaustion of living through major historical moments is a feeling that transcends time, but in the age of constant connectivity and rapid spread of information, it feels particularly amplified today. The tweet by @aardvarsk, "I am tired of being a part of a major historical event," was able to resonate with millions because it captured the collective point of view of a generation trying to navigate the overwhelming weight of the pandemic, political chaos, social upheaval, and environmental disasters. It's a feeling of fatigue that often goes unspoken—how do you remain engaged with a world in crisis without giving in to burnout or passivity?

When I think about this, it reminds me about how throughout history there has also been other illnesses that have caused issues as well. A century ago, during the Spanish Flu of 1918, people similarly found themselves at the center of a global crisis. Though the exact nature of their exhaustion may not have been articulated in the same way, it’s likely they felt a deep weariness from living through a pandemic that came after devastating world war. As a matter of fact, the 1910s were marked by multiple historical moments that were exhausting in their own right. It is important to acknowledge the trauma of World War I, the collapse of empires, and a pandemic that killed millions globally. Yet, people at the time didn’t have the same ability to process or reflect on these events in real-time as we do now. News was slower to travel, and the sheer volume of information was less overwhelming. People couldn't compare the trauma of a world war to the impact of a deadly flu virus on social media, or immediately see how their governments were responding to the crisis via 24-hour news cycles. There was no place for collective venting or solidarity on the internet. People were also not less educated, but educated differently. There has been many discoveries since these times, and on a medical standpoint, we are much better off now then we were back during the Spanish flu. People back then had less resources to help prevent and recover.

The ways in which the 2020s are being experienced, we have seen the pandemic, the political volatility, the economic insecurities, the global warming crises. They are all compounded by our hyper-connected world. Unlike the past, where major historical events were felt in isolation, we now live in an era where each disaster or crisis is amplified through real-time information. The emotional toll is not just from the events themselves but from the constant awareness of them. Social media and 24-hour news cycles provide an unrelenting reminder of how much is happening globally, leaving us no room to escape the feeling that history is unfolding around us, and we are not just witnesses, but active participants in it.

In the future, when historians look back at the 2020s, they will undoubtedly frame it as a time of shifts - pandemics, environmental disasters, technological advances, and political upheaval. The pandemic alone will likely be remembered not only for the loss of life and the disruption of economies, but also for its global impact on mental health, the change of social norms, and the profound shifts in how we work, communicate, and live in community. But we also have to realize and look back on how much has changed. It is hard at times since there is so many ways we can see changes, but accepting that life is changing. It calls for a societal shift on what is perceived as normal. The circumstances faced show that our world is changing drastically, and we need to adapt. The Covid 19 virus came, and it came fast. Peoples lives were changing overnight. We need to see there will be other, quieter moments—like the exhaustion captured in @aardvarsk's tweet—that speak to the collective emotional burden of a world in crisis. The exhaustion of being a part of history might become its own historical marker, revealing how people in the 2020s grappled with their roles in such a transformative time.

Yet, perhaps the tweet also expresses a fundamental human desire to simply escape, even temporarily, the weight of the world. The weariness of being part of history reflects the realization that while we are shaping it, we are also subjected to it. Our agency is limited, and we can only do so much before we begin to feel like mere actors in a larger, uncontrollable narrative. Things happen, and we can't always control what we are given.This tension between action and fatigue, the desire to act and the need to rest is one of the defining emotional experiences of the 2020s

But even as history unfolds, what is clear now is the exhaustion of being aware of it all, the knowledge that no moment, no event, no era is truly separate from the next. We live through it, watch it unfold, and often feel helpless to change it. The pandemic has shown us that we are all part of a larger historical arc, whether we want to be or not. And with that comes both a responsibility to engage and a deep, universal fatigue in knowing that, sometimes, it’s just too much to handle.

In the end, the fatigue of living through major historical moments isn’t unique to this era. It’s as old as history itself. But in this moment, we feel it more intensely, more collectively, and more openly than ever before. And that may be its own kind of historical marker.

[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]

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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.

[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

[butterflytblr]

Study shows plant-based eaters experience less severe COVID-19 symptoms

A survey of over 2,800 frontline medical workers in six countries revealed that those following a plant-based diet had a 73% lower chance of developing a moderate to severe COVID-19 infection.

Plus, a second study of almost 600,000 people found that diets with the most plant foods were linked to a reduced risk of a COVID-19 infection altogether.

Vegan: cuz we want 2 b healthy n strong.

For more details and free downloads, please visit SupremeMasterTV.com/be-veg

[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)