by Richard Meade, The Conversation Credit: www.shutterstock.com With governments worldwide under pressure to ease pandemic restrictions as vaccination rates rise and impatience with border restrictions grows, new threats become clearer. One of the costliest, it is now feared, could be a tsunami of “long COVID” cases. Long COVID is a serious ongoing illness that follows an acute...
by Mark Toshner, The Conversation Around 200 symptoms are associated with long COVID. Credit: Pordee Aomboon/Shutterstock The pace of acute therapy and vaccine development for COVID have been dizzying. But even as we hope a route to bringing the pandemic under control is within sight, we’re now facing the possibility of another urgent public health emergency...
by ISARIC Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Researchers from ISARIC (International Severe Acute Respiratory and Emerging Infection Consortium) pediatric long COVID working group in the UK, Sechenov University and Z.A. Bashlyaeva Children’s Municipal Clinical Hospital in Russia ran the largest study to date on children hospitalized with COVID 19. The study aimed to discover what the...
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Nearly one in seven Britons who tested positive for COVID-19 continued to have symptoms for at least 12 weeks, according to a UK study released Thursday. The Office for National Statistics said the study of over 20,000 people who had tested positive from April last year to March this year found...
‘Long Covid’ could actually be split into four different syndromes, scientists today claimed. Thousands of survivors have reported being plagued by symptoms such as fatigue, shortness of breath, muscle pain and heart arrhythmias months after beating the disease. But scientists are still baffled by the lasting effects of coronavirus, likened to this generation’s polio. Academics at...
