Category: Side Effects
Long Covid: Impaired lung function for months after infection
Two different research articles out recently give graphic details of the lung damage that can be caused in both adults and children after a Covid infection.… ...More...
Preprint: Monkeypox with neuroinflammatory disorders
Complications may occur mainly in children and immunosuppressed patients.… ...More...
NBER: The impacts of Covid-19 illnesses on workers
The National Bureau of Economic Research has published a working paper on the impact of Covid-19 on the US workforce.  … ...More...
Risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease increases by 50-80% in older adults who caught COVID-19
New research published today in the Journal of Alzheimers Disease shows elderly Covid patients have a dramatically increased risk of developing Alzheimers.… ...More...
Russia: Eight times vaccinated Vladimir Zhirinovsky dies of Covid-19
Vladimir Zhirinovsky said that in a year and a half he had shot himself eight times with different Covid-19 vaccines.… ...More...
BMJ: First UK compensation payment for Covid-19 vaccine death
Vikki Spit from Cumbria is believed to be the first person to receive vaccine injury compensation after her 48 year old partner, Zion, died in May 2021 following vaccination with the Astrazeneca vaccine.… ...More...
Long Covid: Persistent loss of smell indicates a high risk of cognitive and memory problems
The loss of smell with Covid, especially if persistent, it indicates a high risk of encountering cognitive and memory problems during the period following infection, and also of cognitive deficits that can persist for months after healing from Covid.… ...More...
UK: Long Covid recognised as a disability by employment tribunal
The decision in the employment tribunal case of Burke v Turning Point Scotland is one of the first in the UK to address specific facts and has found that the long Covid symptoms suffered by Mr Burke amounted to a disability.… ...More...
Italy: Lung function impaired by BA.5 infection
Subjects hospitalized for Omicron BA.5 showed an altered endothelial function three months after the acute phase with an impairment of lung function.… ...More...
Long Covid: Microscopic abnormality in the way oxygen moves from the lungs into the blood vessels
A team of researchers based at five centres across Ontario have zeroed in on a microscopic abnormality in the way oxygen moves from the lungs and into the blood vessels of long COVID patients in their trial.… ...More...
Anthony Fauci Paxlovid rebound
Anthony Fauci has been talking about his recent Covid infection, and seeing the infection rebound after a course of Paxlovid.… ...More...
Germany: Fourth Covid vaccination offered for “a quieter and symptom-free summer”
Germany’s health minister Karl Lauterbach has announced plans to offer every citizen a fourth Covid vaccination so that they can have “a quieter and symptom-free summer”.… ...More...
Preprint: Long-term mortality following SARS-CoV-2 infection
People infected with SARS-COV-2 had more than three times the risk of dying over the following year compared with those who remained uninfected.… ...More...
SARS-CoV-2 can infect and kill different immunity cell types independently of ACE2
In one of the most disturbing preprints we have seen during the entire pandemic, researchers outline the damage that SARS-CoV-2 can do to key components of the human immune system, independently of ACE2.… ...More...