Tomorrow morning on newsroom.co.nz, the first of a three-part series – The Burden. On the impact of Long Covid in New Zealand.
This was very hard to write. I'm at Stanford this fall with a group of researchers I admire tremendously and cherish as colleagues. But Stanford, Johns Hopkins and now Emory are boosting COVID conspiracy theories and misinformation by hosting these gatherings. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Why are places like Stanford and Johns Hopkins hosting gatherings of well-known coronavirus cranks?
Sidenote: and of course few papers are minor error-free, but ironically memory/cognitive deficits are also somewhat on display with the paper's own funding statements referencing the "Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) of *Her* Majesty's Government". (four times)
"prospectively controlled infection with Wildtype SARS-CoV-2 is followed by objectively measurable reductions in cognitive task performance that can persist for at least a year. Immediate and delayed memory, and executive function were the most sensitive [domains]." www.thelancet.com/journals/ecl...
These results support larger cross sectional findings indicating that mild Wildtype SARS-CoV-2 infection can be followed by small changes in cognition and memory that persist for at least a year. The ...
"none of the volunteers reported subjective cognitive deficits. This apparent discrepancy between objective and subjective measures could be interpreted […] that the tasks are sensitive enough to detect small changes in cognition that are too subtle for the volunteer to be metacognitively aware of."
"prospectively controlled infection with Wildtype SARS-CoV-2 is followed by objectively measurable reductions in cognitive task performance that can persist for at least a year. Immediate and delayed memory, and executive function were the most sensitive [domains]." www.thelancet.com/journals/ecl...
These results support larger cross sectional findings indicating that mild Wildtype SARS-CoV-2 infection can be followed by small changes in cognition and memory that persist for at least a year. The ...
"For the first time ever, manufacturers would be required to study the impact of test dummies hit outside of vehicles." first time ever?????
The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration stunned safety advocates by proposing new vehicle design rules that it says will help reduce pedestrian deaths. The rules will likely change veh...
Why isn’t metformin used routinely in acute COVID to reduce risk of long COVID? It’s cheap, effective, long-tested in other conditions and pretty harmless. Something to do with being off patent maybe? www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Outpatient treatment with metformin reduced long COVID incidence by about 41%, with an absolute reduction of 4·1%, compared with placebo. Metformin has clinical benefits when used as outpatient treatm...
"Together our findings suggest that in patients with #POTS#MECFS#LongCovidwww.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Postural hyperventilation has been implicated as a cause of postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), yet the precise mechanisms underlying th…