As noted previously -- children are at risk of Long Covid and there are many cases. The best path to preventing Long Covid in your child is to get them vaccinated. Long Covid can affect children of all ages, including infants, study shows https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/23/health/little-kids-long-covid/index.html Even the littlest children can experience long Covid, according to a large study, one of the first of its kind to include infants and toddlers. The study published Wednesday in the journal The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health included 44,000 children in Denmark ranging in ages zero through 14 years old. Of the children, 11,000 had tested positive for Covid-19 between January 2020 and July 2021. While symptoms associated with long Covid are general ailments children can experience even without Covid -- headaches, mood swings, stomach problems and tiredness -- the children in the study who had previously tested positive for Covid were more likely to experience at least one symptom for two months or more than the children who never tested positive for Covid. The study also revealed that a third of children who had tested positive for Covid experienced at least one long-term symptom that was not present before testing positive. The most common symptoms varied by age. For children up through age 3, it was mood swings, rashes and stomach aches. Children 4 to 11 years old also experienced memory and concentration problems. For the 12- to 14-year-olds, it was memory and concentration issues, mood swings and fatigue. Children 3 and under seemed to have the most problems compared with those children not diagnosed with Covid-19 -- 40% experienced symptoms two months after testing positive compared with the 27% in the group that did not have Covid. "Our findings align with previous studies of long Covid and adolescents showing that although the chances of children experiencing long Covid is low especially compared to group to the control group, it must be recognized and treated seriously," said study co-author Selina Kikkenborg Berg, a professor of cardiology at Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen, Denmark. It is still unclear how many kids have long Covid and for how long, because there is not enough research on it in this age group, some experts say. A 2021 study suggested more than half of children between age 6 and 16 had at least one symptom that lasted more than four months. In adults, some research puts the number around 30% of cases. There are no specific tests for long Covid. It's not clear which children will have it, as it can happen even when a child has a mild case of Covid-19. In addition to showing scientists the characteristics of long Covid in children, the study also showed that even the children who did not get Covid felt the impact of the pandemic. That group reported a few more psychological and social problems than children who had Covid. Dr. Michael Absoud, a pediatrician who specializes in neurodevelopmental issues who did not work on the study, told the Science Media Center in the UK that he found that fact intriguing. "The most striking finding of this study is the higher quality of life and lower anxiety scores in older children who had tested positive for Covid-19. This provides further confirmation, that although mercifully children are resilient to the direct impacts of Covid, they have been significantly impacted by the indirect impacts of the pandemic (school closures, repeated quarantines, and reduced therapies) and anxiety inducing media messaging. It is likely that society has under-estimated longer term impact of the pandemic disruption rather than the virus on all children, and the urgent need for recovery of health and wellbeing services," Absoud said. "Nonetheless it is still important to identify the small proportion of children who are taking longer to recover from COVID, whilst supporting all children with persistent symptoms regardless of cause," he added. Dr. Amy Edwards, a pediatric infectious disease specialist who manages the long Covid clinic at UH Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital in Cleveland, did not work on the study, but said the work was important because it is more proof that some children develop long Covid. She said she still regularly encounters people who do not believe that there is such a thing. "There is a debate going on in both the medical world and in society, about whether all these kids are complaining about headaches and anxiety and stomachs, aches, and dizziness as to whether this is Covid or the stress of the pandemic. Yes, the pandemic did affect children in a negative way, but then you layer on Covid on top of that, and you see that there is something really going on here," Edwards said. Acknowledging long Covid can be a problem may encourage more parents to vaccinate their children so they don't get long Covid in the first place. Studies like this may also encourage parents to be on the look out for symptoms, so they can get the child help if they need it. "It's become clear that this isn't an isolated phenomenon. It's showing up in studies in more than one country. It's happening in more kids than maybe we originally thought," Edwards said. "We're talking about not small numbers of children when you think of how many Covid cases there have been. So just continuing to get the word out there matters."
Yep... 7.5% of our country is suffering with Long Covid right now. And the Covid-deniers still are trying to claim that Long Covid does not exist -- while at the same time are trying to grift ivermectin as a cure for Long Covid. 7.5% of American population struggles with long COVID https://www.aspendailynews.com/news...cle_c8d18c6e-f36a-11ec-b1aa-1feda7964de4.html David Putrino, director of rehabilitation innovation of Mount Sinai Health System in New York City, was in the middle of giving his talk at the Aspen Ideas: Health program Thursday morning when the news broke: Roughly 7.5% of the American population is struggling with long COVID, or lingering COVID-19. “That was actually while my talk was happening — those data were released,” Putrino said in an interview Thursday afternoon. Putrino’s work has made him an expert on the disease caused by the novel coronavirus that shook the world in March 2020. By trade, he’s a physical therapist with a doctorate in neuroscience. His research focuses on identifying solutions to allow better access to health care from a technological perspective, so when the pandemic hit, Putrino was uniquely positioned to pivot his work to COVID. “I’m always running pragmatic clinical trials on new technologies and trying to integrate those technologies into practice — so not just stopping at, ‘We did a clinical trial and we published it, and it was great,’ but actually then working with the inventors of the technology and working with the hospital system to find ways to make sure that patients get access to the tech,” he said. “Which is a step that I think is just often missed in a lot of conventional research experiences.” With that emphasis on user care — and therefore interaction with actual patients — Putrino and his colleagues realized they already had an infrastructure built that could lend itself well to studying COVID-19 in real time. “We were sort of sitting in New York, watching it all unfold, and my team was doing a large number of remote patient monitoring programs,” Putrino recalled. “So we quickly took one of the apps that we had actually developed ourselves for monitoring one condition, and we made it more relevant to monitoring COVID. And we just put out a blast on social media and everything saying, listen, if you’re having COVID symptoms and you’re in New York, text this number. We’ll show you how to download the app, and we’ll track you every single day so there’s a clinician watching you.” Putrino’s first patient came on board March 15, and he and his team were soon monitoring thousands of patients. By April, however, they noticed a growing trend: Some people weren’t leaving the app — they were continuing to experience symptoms long past researchers’ expectations. “There was a group that weren’t recovering,” Putrino said. “They were reporting new symptoms. They were saying, ‘Look, I’ve got heart palpitations and fatigue and cognitive impairment … all these different things.’” At that point, about 15% of the patients using Putrino’s app were experiencing what has since become known as long COVID. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that of Americans who tested positive for COVID-19, approximately 20% became “long haulers.” “Which is a staggering number,” Putrino said. In Pitkin County, the number of COVID-19 patients who struggled with long-term symptoms was even higher — public health officials estimated that, based on survey results, about half of patients who tested positive between March and August 2020 reported at least one symptom that lingered six months. Putrino said that there has not been official research into any correlation between long COVID and higher altitude, though he did say that the effects of altitude on the body’s systems is well-known, and that otherwise unnoticeable or mild long COVID symptoms may become agitated at higher elevation. Putrino’s research has shown that there is a significant number of people still struggling with long COVID who may not even consciously know it. “What we noticed was, as we were screening these patients, we were losing about half of our patients who self-identified … saying, ‘I had COVID; I am fully recovered,’” Putrino said. For those patients who had determined for themselves that they had overcome COVID-19, his team asked that they undertake a screening exam for research purposes. “And they would fail the screen,” Putrino continued. “They would fail the screen in contrast to our other control group, which was individuals who had never had COVID. We’d give them the screening exam, and they’d pass with flying colors.” Putrino’s conclusion? “I think we may have more people with long COVID symptoms than we think,” he said. And there’s still much work to be done, not only in properly identifying and diagnosing patients still suffering with long COVID, but also in treating them. The latter is still a long way off, Putrino said. Looking at it through a data-driven lens, knowing intimately the National Institute of Health’s processes and propensity for incremental research, he estimates that a medical treatment for long COVID could be 17 years or more off. “That is the current bench-to-bedside research,” he said of the timeframe. Yet he remains optimistic. The pandemic created a global sense of urgency and a willingness for entities to share research and resources in the name of expediency. “There are many organizations stepping up and understanding that the NIH is not moving at a pace that is aligned with a fast cure,” he said. “It’s just a fact. I hope that we’re three to five years away from a breakthrough.” Until that happens, however — and happens in a meaningful way, in which all patients of all demographics have meaningful access to care — Putrino is the bearer of bad news: We are still in a pandemic. In fact, he didn’t actually want to come to Aspen for the Ideas Festival at all, but he views the other part of his job as one rooted in advocacy, and he felt that he needed to speak on behalf of those whose health is too compromised to speak in person for themselves about their experiences. “I’m not saying that with any level of judgment for others — we all have to modulate and modify our own risk,” Putrino said. “But … I happen to know that one individual with long COVID was invited to speak, and they declined because they didn’t feel that they could take the risk.” So, still donning a mask indoors, Putrino tempered his trepidation and accepted his invitation to Aspen. “That’s what I think being an ally to a chronically disabled community means,” he said.
Let's take a look at the six groups most likely to develop Long Covid. One top group - those who are not vaccinated. Fortunately this cause is preventable -- but not for idiots who refuse to get vaccinated. Who’s most at risk of developing long COVID? Experts think these 6 groups of people might be https://fortune.com/2022/07/03/long-covid-whos-most-at-risk-of-developing/ COVID just got a lot more complicated. With cases rising in the U.S. and globally yet again, fueled by subvariants known to evade immunity, questions abound. How long does immunity last? How many times will I get COVID? Do I have long COVID—and if not, what are the chances I’ll get it eventually? It’s hard to say who’s at risk for a condition that’s yet to be well defined, experts tell Fortune. But just as researchers and practitioners have their theories about long COVID’s root causes, they have educated guesses about who might be most at risk. An enigmatic condition Long COVID is, quite possibly, the great enigma of our time. It’s “a very big umbrella term,” Dr. Alba Miranda Azola, co-director of the Post-Acute COVID-19 Team Program at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, tells Fortune. “It’s patient defined, patient created,” she says of the condition federal officials say could affect up to 23 million Americans. “Thus, the patients define themselves as having long COVID, and the term is very inclusive.” As research into the nascent condition expands, it seems that almost anything and everything could be a symptom—from ear numbness, a sensation of “brain on fire,” and erectile dysfunction to irregular menstrual periods, constipation, and peeling skin, according to a landmark study published last summer in British medical journal The Lancet. Recently scientists have attempted to categorize long COVID patients into subgroups, hypothesizing that the disease isn’t one thing, but many.Dr. Alexandra Brugler Yonts—an infectious disease specialist at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C., and the head of its new Pediatric Post-COVID Program—tells Fortune she divides long COVID into five categories, grouped by causes: long-term direct effects of the virus, inflammation, dysautonomia (a disorder of the autonomic nervous system that can cause symptoms like abnormal heart rate), ongoing viral activity, and altered immune response. Dr. Petter Brodin—a COVID researcher, professor of pediatric immunology, and pediatrician at the Imperial College of London—tells Fortune he divides long COVID patients into three categories that may overlap: autoimmune disease triggered by COVID, metabolic disease triggered by COVID, and long-term persistence of the virus. “In my head I have, like, a Venn diagram of overlapping clinical presentations,” Azola says, illustrating just how vexing it is for even the brightest medical minds to wrap their head around the new disorder. “I wish I knew the full answer” as to exactly what long COVID is, Brodin says. But one thing is certain: “Long COVID is not one thing.” Six at-risk groups, maybe more Clear as mud, right? It’s easy to understand why even the experts aren’t sure who might be more likely to develop long COVID. There are, however, some well-informed theories about who’s most at risk: 1) Those who’ve had repeat COVID infections, regardless of severity. If you’ve survived COVID unscathed, the odds aren’t necessarily in your favor next time around. A preprint of a study published earlier this month on ResearchSquare found that risk of long COVID, hospitalization, and death increased with each COVID reinfection, Azola says. 2) Those who had a high viral load during their COVID infection. A recent study found that those who had higher viral loads during their acute COVID infection—regardless of severity of symptoms—were more likely to develop long COVID. Treatments like COVID antiviral Paxlovid may eventually reduce long COVID in this at-risk population by squashing their viral loads, Azola says. 3) Those who harbor dormant Epstein-Barr Virus. Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) is one of the most common human viruses. Many are infected during childhood and don’t know it, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The virus can cause mononucleosisand, according to some researchers, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome—which, similar to long COVID, includes symptoms like fatigue, concentration problems, and headaches. The aforementioned study found that some long COVID patients were more likely to have levels of reactivated EBV circulating. 4) Those who have autoimmune antibodies circulating. The aforementioned study also found that those with auto-antibodies circulating were at higher risk. Only 6% of long COVID patients with auto-antibodies had been diagnosed with an autoimmune condition before COVID, researchers wrote. “They seem to have an increased number of antibodies in their blood, but we don’t know why or how,” Azola says. 5) Those who had neurological symptoms during their COVID infection. Dr. Panagis Galiatsatos—an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins’ Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine who treats long-COVID patients—hypothesizes that a subset of “long haulers” who experience fatigue and shortness of breath have brains that misinterpret subclinical inflammation or remaining virus. Their neurons, damaged by COVID, signal for the body to produce sensations that encourage them to seek more sleep and oxygen. In his clinical experience, long COVID patients who fit into this bucket often experienced neurological symptoms—like loss of taste or smell and bad headaches—during their acute COVID infection. 6) Those who haven’t been vaccinated. There is conflicting data about how much vaccination reduces one’s risk of long COVID. “Some studies say a lot, some say 10%, but the overarching message is that vaccines decrease the risk of long COVID,” Azola says. Unfortunately, most long COVID risk factors are out of our control and, perhaps, even our ability to know if they apply to us. The things in our control, Azola says: vaccination, masking, and social distancing. Individuals should weigh their risks not only of coming down with severe COVID, but of developing long COVID, Azola says—especially as new variants continue to evolve and cause reinfection. Long COVID “can happen to anyone, independent of severe disease,” she says. “It can be disabling. The thought of ‘COVID is over,’ or that we need to put our masks away, is a completely unfair assessment. We still need to be diligent.”
Study: Long-term effects of COVID reinfections reveals lasting health problems https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisc...reinfections-reveals-lasting-health-problems/ "Those that have had two or more cases of COVID had more than twice the risk of dying. They also are 3 times more likely to be hospitalized within 6 months of their last infection."
Just keep in mind that each time you get infected with Covid -- you have a 1 in 20 chance of not being able to taste or smell again. LONG HAULERS One in every 20 people who catch Covid may never get their smell or taste back https://www.the-sun.com/health/5875019/people-catching-covid-lose-smell-taste/
Man accused of selling bleach as COVID cure extradited to US by Associated Press Thursday, July 28th 2022 File Photo: This 2020 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows SARS-CoV-2 virus particles which cause COVID-19. Nearly two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the origin of the virus tormenting the world remains shrouded in mystery. (Hannah A. Bullock, Azaibi Tamin/CDC via AP, File) MIAMI, Fla. (AP) — A man accused of selling a toxic industrial bleach as a coronavirus cure through his Florida-based church has been returned to the United States after being arrested in Colombia. Mark Grenon, 64, made his initial court appearance Thursday in Miami federal court following his recent extradition, according to court records. Grenon and his three adult sons were indicted last year on one count each of conspiracy to commit fraud and two counts each of criminal contempt. Grenon is the archbishop of the Genesis II Church of Health and Healing, based in Bradenton, Florida. The church manufactured, promoted and sold chlorine dioxide as a “Miracle Mineral Solution,” officials said. The Grenons claim the solution can cure a vast variety of illnesses ranging from cancer to autism to malaria to COVID-19. A Miami federal judge had ordered the church to stop selling the substance in 2020, but the order was ignored and Grenon was arrested in Colombia several months later. See also: Judge: 'Defense has been provided more than enough time,' no 45-day continuance for Cruz When ingested, the solution sold by the Grenons becomes a bleach that is typically used for such things as treating textiles, industrial water, pulp and paper, according to the Food and Drug Administration. Authorities said ingesting these products is the same as drinking bleach and can be fatal. Court records did not list attorneys for Grenon who could comment on the charges.
For all the balding anti-vax "natural immunity" posters on ET with limp dicks... Long Covid causes erectile dysfunction and hair loss as symptoms list widens https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...t-hairfall-erectile-dysfunction-b2135359.html