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Coronavirus Tidbits #150 7/25/21
Quick links First, there is now a Resources Page here for the most commonly asked questions I’m getting. Happy to continue to answer your questions/concerns as best I can, so don’t be shy about that. News A coming wave of diabetes? The link with COVID-19 Researchers are observing a new long-term health concern in patients hospitalized with COVID-19-an increase in new-onset hyperglycemia lasting months after infection. An Italian study found that about half of the patients admitted to the hospital for COVID-19 during the start of the pandemic had new cases of hyperglycemia, or high levels of blood sugar. They also had poorer outcomes. ~ ~ ~ How concerned should we be…
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Coronavirus Tidbits #149 7/18/21
Quick links News   Diagnostics   Drugs  Devices  Epidemiology/Infection control   Tips   Politics   Feel good du jour   Comic relief   Perspective/Poem   Bits of beauty Announcements: First, there is now a Resources Page here for the most commonly asked questions I'm getting. Happy to continue to answer your questions/concerns as best I can, so don't be shy about that. Important post by me on hospital visitation here: in Forbes, -please share: Hospitals Separating Patients And Families Due To Covid-19 Causes Needless Suffering also Even ID Specialists Can Get Tick-borne Diseases in Medscape News Huge study supporting #Ivermectin as #Covid19 treatment withdrawn over ethical…
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Coronavirus Tidbits #148 7/11/21
Quick links News   Diagnostics   Drugs  Devices  Epidemiology/Infection control   Tips   Politics   Feel good du jour   Comic relief   Perspective/Poem   Bits of beauty Announcements: First, there is now a Resources Page here for the most commonly asked questions I'm getting. Happy to continue to answer your questions/concerns as best I can, so don't be shy about that. News Long Covid: Persistent symptoms in adult patients one year after COVID-19: a prospective cohort study Jessica Seeßle, et al. Clinical Infectious Diseases, ciab611, https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciab611 Background Long COVID is defined as the persistence of symptoms beyond 3 months after SARS-CoV-2 infection. To better understand…
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Coronavirus Tidbits # 147 7/4/21
Quick links News   Diagnostics   Drugs  Devices  Epidemiology/Infection control   Tips   Politics   Feel good du jour   Comic relief   Perspective/Poem   Bits of beauty Announcements: First, there is now a Resources Page here for the most commonly asked questions I'm getting. Happy to continue to answer your questions/concerns as best I can, so don't be shy about that. News This is a huge story. An Australian virologist at WIV in late 2019 notes:-no sick employees at WIV-best-practice biosafety protocols in place-did not witness GoF work which she's qualified to recognizeLab leak odds just got even longer.https://t.co/LKrQe9H3N2— Dr. Angela Rasmussen (@angie_rasmussen) June…
