Category: Hospitalization
Preprint: Elevated liver enzymes and bilirubin following SARS-CoV-2 infection in children under 10
Those cases of mysterious hepatitis in kids are looking increasingly less mysterious by the day….
“Compared to children infected with other respiratory infections, children infected with COVID-19 infection were at significantly increased risk for elevated AST or ALT and total bilirubin.… ...More...
Eric Topol: The Covid Capitulation
“The real number of cases is likely at least 500,000 per day, far greater than any of the US prior waves except Omicron.… ...More...
North Korea: Latest update on Covid situation
“About 1,349,000 people have entered the sanitation propaganda, inspection, and treatment business, and all people with fever and abnormal symptoms are found and thoroughly isolated and treated.”… ...More...
UK: Half a million people have sought Long Covid advice
Asthma and Lung UK said that over the last six months about half a million had visited its long COVID advice pages or called its helpline – and some sufferers are considering buying their own oxygen supplies.… ...More...
ECDC & WHO: Joint statement on hepatitis in kids
The World Health Organisation have issued a joint statement with the ECDC on the recent cases of hepatitis in children. … ...More...
North Korea: 350,000 Covid cases in two weeks *1 update*
North Korea reported the first death from COVID-19 today and said more than 350,000 people got fever* since late April as COVID-19 “explosively spread nationwide.”… ...More...
WHO: China’s zero-Covid strategy is unsustainable *1 update*
China’s flagship zero-Covid strategy to defeat the pandemic is unsustainable, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, adding that it had told Beijing so and called for a policy shift.… ...More...
Pediatric acute liver failure associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection
“We describe the case of a 3-year-old previously healthy female who developed acute liver failure secondary to type 2 autoimmune hepatitis preceded by mild infection with SARS-CoV-2”
Although elevated liver enzymes are common in hospitalized children with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection, pediatric acute liver failure is an uncommon manifestation of COVID-19 disease.… ...More...
13% of hospitalized Covid-19 patients developed neurological conditions including encephalopathy
Of the more than 16,000 hospitalized Covid-19 patients examined, 13% developed serious neurological conditions including, most commonly, encephalopathy upon admission.… ...More...
Shielding “would not have been a viable public health strategy for COVID-19”
Shielding the vulnerable while allowing infections to spread among the wider population would not have been a viable public health strategy for COVID-19 and is unlikely to be effective for future pandemics.… ...More...
South Africa: Covid-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths rise in fifth wave
In a new report out today, an estimation of the current RO number in South Africa was revealed, along with evidence of increasing numbers of cases, hospitalizations and deaths across the country.… ...More...
Vietnam: Severe liver and brain damage in child after Covid-19 infection
A 13-year-old boy just recovered from Covid-19 suddenly returned to fever, red skin, red eyes, the doctor diagnosed multi-system inflammatory syndrome, brain damage.… ...More...
France: Persistent Alpha variant infection in immunosuppressed patient in 2022
“We describe persistent circulation of SARS-CoV-2 Alpha variant in an immunosuppressed patient in France during February 2022. The virus had a new pattern of mutation accumulation.… ...More...
UKHSA: Hepatitis in kids – revised hypotheses include new SARS-CoV-2 variant
THE UKHSA have released a new technical briefing today outlining their latest hypotheses for the outbreak of acute hepatitis in kids across Britain.… ...More...