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For 2 years as she struggled with long COVID, Jennifer Henderson hasn't been able to smell or taste. But after getting a pain management injection, she was finally able to smell coffee again – and broke down in tears. "I just feel like I'm getting my life back."
Woman with long COVID smells coffee for first time in 2 years
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NEW: Effectiveness of Bivalent Boosters against Severe Omicron Infection | from @NEJM confirming the benefit of bivalent omicron boosters vs earlier monovalent booster. Bottom line: get your bivalent booster nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NE…
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Paxlovid is Still Effective Against New COVID Variants? ||| If your doctor talks to you about “paxlovid rebound” you need a doctor who still reads. Probably you need a new doctor. @michaelmina_lab @EricTopol @DanielGriffinMD health.com/is-paxlovid-effec…
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Latest CDC data shows XBB.1.5 accounting for almost 50% of COVID-19 cases in the United States, with marked variation, 85% in northeast, still very low in the west, but now almost 40% in southeast, over 30% in Texas covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tra…
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The WHO is warning that a new omicron subvariant known as XBB.1.5 is the most transmissible strain to date. abcn.ws/3VITXzD
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I don’t understand how COVID is spiking again after we’ve tried everything from pretending it’s over to pretending it never happened
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1/3 My Covid talking points for this week:
1. Case numbers, hospitalizations, positivity all tending up across the US
2. In the past, when this was linked to a single variant, it indicated we’re in for a new major wave… – at Houston, TX
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As of 10 November 2022, it is estimated that 94% of Americans have had Covid at least once, much of those infections in the past year. Ranking of states w/ most vulnerability d/t lack of vaccines/ boosters medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/… @HarvardChanSPH
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This fall – for the sake of your health and the health of your loved ones – get your updated COVID shot and your flu shot.
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#LongCovid patients with fatigue and cognitive problems have impaired brain cortex GABA-B activity and reduced plasticity in primary motor cortex which was restored with ultramicronized PalmitoylEthanolAmide with Luteolin (PEA-LUT) in small RCT buff.ly/3Gdt2I8
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"11,000 Americans died in the past month from Covid... Long Covid affecting 1 in 5 people who got Covid... how can the president say the pandemic is over?"
Watch my exchange on Covid, the pandemic, and boosters with White House chief of staff Ron Klain:
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How COVID-19 damages lungs: The virus attacks mitochondria ⚠️
Approximately five per cent of people infected with SARS-CoV-2 suffer respiratory failure (low blood oxygen) requiring hospitalization. theconversation.com/how-covi…
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Omicron changed the game in terms of the virus' ability to evade immunity. A new CDC report shows effectiveness of the original three dose mRNA series against hospitalization during the BA.1/BA.2 and BA.4/BA.5 periods waned to 41% and 29% 120 days after vaccination, respectively.
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My husband got Covid last week.
He was up-to-date vaxxed, got meds immediately, feels fine, now tests negative. Keeping us quarantined until 10 days are over.
I was boosted. Wore mask the second he felt bad.
And I am still testing negative!
That science stuff works.👊
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Inflammation and dysfunction of the lining of blood vessels—the endothelium—is the basis for many of the cardiovascular complications of Covid. A new, solid review here nature.com/articles/s41401-0…
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Why do some people develop long COVID while others do not? While we still don't know for sure, some answers are beginning to emerge.
In this 🧵 I describe some groundbreaking work done by @VirusesImmunity at Yale in an attempt to answer this question. 1/
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Dr. Fauci was eligible for his COVID booster shot so Stephen took him next door to the pharmacy to get vaccinated — and they had quite the journey.
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