covid

  1. Pyrrhus

    CNN: Redefining Covid-19: Months after infection, patients report breathing difficulty, excessive fatigue

    https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/09/13/health/long-haul-covid-fatigue-breathing-wellness/index.html A good piece written by Ryan Prior, an ME patient who works for CNN: Excerpt:
  2. Pyrrhus

    STAT: Seeking the causes of post-Covid symptoms, researchers dust off data on college students with mononucleosis

    For those of you unfamiliar with STAT, it's a website geared towards the medical community. They just published a piece by David Tuller, the academic who wrote the PACE expose: https://www.statnews.com/2020/09/11/persistent-symptoms-after-covid19-hard-to-study/ Excerpt:
  3. wherearemypillows

    Thoughts on long-term COVID consequences, including ME/CFS possibility?

    At first I was being extra careful to take precautions due to being immunocompromised by Rituximab, but in the past few weeks I've become more and more alarmed by reports of long-term coronavirus consequences. The extreme fatigue and cognitive decline being suffered by some COVID "long-haulers"...
  4. PatJ

    A pulse oximeter can detect early signs of Covid pneumonia

    This article on the New York Times explains how a pulse oximeter is an important tool for monitoring the health of covid patients, and even for people who didn't realize they were infected: The infection that's silently killing Coronavirus patients. Here are some extracts from the article. I've...
  5. roller

    covid19 - the environmental factors for virus

    the temperature, the "weather", clouds, rain, return to the soil and right into our freshwater supplies ... everything can spread and contribute to virus survival - but also destroy it... makes wonder, if "the normal social interaction" is even the least successful vehicle for a virus...