COVID-19 Pandemic

A free zine by Cindy Barukh Milstein.

Hey quick question, has anything in the past decade caused people's brain T-cells to go haywire?

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Last year's Novavax COVID-19 vaccine finder from the company itself is gone, there's nothing in the press about Novavax availability beyond saying it will be available "in the fall," and since reddit locked their cesspool down, searching "novavax reddit" with time range of "last month" is useless.

Thus I am starting a thread for anyone seeking the Novavax shot to share info. Please post if you find it, and if comfortable sharing, where.

UPDATE: Nuvaxovid locator is now online!

https://www.nuvaxovid.com/vaccine-locator

crossposted from: https://feddit.org/post/18296646

Original article in German: 3.000 Long-COVID Betroffene informieren sich über neue Nikotinpflastertherapie

Via this Mastodon post (in German).

A clinical survey of 85 pediatric long-COVID patients in Bavaria, Germany, reveals high levels of fatigue, loss of motivation, difficulty concentrating and maintaining attention, worsened mood, and greater anxiety. A

To holistically describe long-COVID symptoms and identify risk factors for post-infection neurocognitive and emotional problems, University of Regensburg researchers analyzed clinical data from COVID-19 survivors aged 12 to 17 years who had symptoms for at least 4 weeks. The average patient age was 12.5 years, 61.2% were girls, and the average interval from infection to examination was 5.7 months.

From December 2021 to June 2023, the children were given a neuropsychological evaluation made up of infection-specific interviews, psychopathologic exams, questionnaires on emotional well-being and behavioral problems, and computerized tests measuring concentration, attention, and memory. Participants also underwent neurologic, pneumological, gastrointestinal, and cardiac testing.

84% had abnormal psychological results. Most children had elevated levels of fatigue (82.4%), loss of motivation (72.9%), impaired concentration and attention (71.8%), and worsened mood (53%), and 31.8% reported more anxiety. The most common diagnoses were post-COVID adjustment disorder (38.8%) and post-COVID attention-deficit disorder (23.5%). Disturbances in attention and memory, drive and psychomotor activity, affect, circadian disturbances, and worries and compulsions were common.

I wrote this post on Friendica yesterday. Its about comparing some aspects of life before #Longcovid with how it is now, written in specific Bulletpoints.

#longcovidawarenessDay #Longcovid #LongCovidAwareness #PostCovid

Among adults in Ravensburg, Germany, financial incentives for COVID-19 vaccination did not result in significant changes to vaccine uptake and may have inadvertently lowered community vaccination levels, according to a recently published study in JAMA Network Open.

People with weakened immune systems—most of whom were vaccinated—made up 4% of a random sample of more than 12 million people in England in 2023 yet represented 22% of both COVID-19 hospital admissions and deaths, according to new findings from the INvestigation oF cOvid-19 Risk among iMmunocompromised populations (INFORM) study.

A meta-analysis of 37 studies involving 3 million people suggests that those with long COVID are much more likely to experience chest pain, heart palpitations, and high blood pressure than their uninfected counterparts.