Long Covid Is Keeping Significant Numbers of People Out of Work, Study Finds
#COVID #LongCovid
RT @drclairetaylor@twitter.com
🧵’POTS is a rare disease’
(postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome)
♦️66% of patients with post-Covid syndrome have autonomic dysfunction
♦️3.3% of UK population have long Covid
♦️That’s 1.3 million with post Covid POTS*
+existing POTS patients (0.2-1%)
POTS is not rare
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🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/drclairetaylor/status/1617841604676685830
@Tinu idk if you would find this #CovidResources helpful
Resources for #MasksInSchools
https://maskevidence.org/masks-in-schools
#COVID #COVID19 #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsntOver #LongCovid #MaskUp #WearAMask
Hey all, would appreciate a post boost on this one.
I, unfortunately, got laid off last week and am looking for a new job! If you know of any going that fit my skillset of video content creation, educational CG writing, CG generalist then I'd love to hear about it!
In a world where you can be anything…
Be kind. ❤️
It’s super easy and makes everyone feel great!
Another Monday in a parallel universe. As HCWs, we spend our days dealing with patients who have #COVID19 (so many right now - of all ages), and helping patients with #LongCovid (of all ages), yet we have to explain to others why we won’t socialize or work indoors unmasked.
#KidneyDocs and #KidneyResearchers
Consider submitting your #KidneyResearch to #CJKHD (Canadian Journal of Kidney Health & Disease)
We have a policy of supportive review. Here's the piece we wrote about the central role of kindness in peer-review
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20543581221080327
We aren't here on Mastodon yet but working on it. @CanJKHD at the other place.
Excellent scoping review of rituximab dosing for #GlomerularDiseases #Glomerulonephritis #GN
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20543581221129959
#CJKHD - home of #SupportiveReview (#kindness #KidneyKindneww and #PortableReview
@holmesr@mastodon.online @Pat
True
Remembering though religious reasons not to shave, I will re-up the paper because it shows improvement with a band around the beard under the mask.
@ChristosArgyrop @maggiejk@mstdn.social @Pat
Yes, reports of persistence are concerning.
I think I have seen a few ... But I think this is the recent one you are mentioning?
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/path.6035
Post mortem analysis of 27 patients an average of >3 months since last viral positivity.
"Despite apparent virological remission, lung pathology was similar to that observed in acute COVID-19 individuals, including micro- and macro-vascular thrombosis (67% of cases), vasculitis (24%), squamous metaplasia of the respiratory epithelium (30%), frequent cytological abnormalities and syncytia (67%), and the presence of dysmorphic features in the bronchial cartilage (44%)."
"SARS-CoV-2 antigens were not detected in the respiratory epithelium. In contrast, antibodies against both spike and nucleocapsid revealed the frequent (70%) infection of bronchial cartilage chondrocytes and para-bronchial gland epithelial cells."
This and other additional evidence of long term persistence and immune effects is useful and reminds us of the importance of the precautionary principle.
But it is not necessary to the argument: we should control #Covid anyway, should never have stopped trying to limit community transmission, because of the known disruption, disability and death is it still causing acutely. We've had evidence enough for years.
IHME estimates US Covid infections at staggering 1.25 million a day
This would have been halved if there had been a mask mandate a month ago
In the US, 600 people a day are dying of Covid.
For people who don't (yet) know anyone who died from Covid, here is a heart-breaking thread about the death of Greg Foley, a chemical engineer and assistant professor.
He describes various levels of respiratory support as he experienced them. May he rest in peace.
https://twitter.com/gregfoley2002/status/1613465945451675648?s=46&t=Gmr_urMTeqE3veE0MEo7tA
#CovidIsNotOver #MaskUp #MaskMandate #MaskMandateNow
In the absence of #MaskMandates, #WearAMask, in fact #WearTheBestMaskAvailable
Curated information on #BetterMasks:
https://maskevidence.org/mask-types
Detailed argument for mask mandates:
https://theconversation.com/ca/topics/mask-mandate-90260
🤣 This turned out long. Appreciate a reposting/boost from anyone who found it interesting or helpful...🙏
Common kingfisher.
Beautiful little blue-and-orange bird with a long, pointed bill.
Kingfishers fly low and straight like bullets, reaching up to 25 miles per hour.
Photograph: David Zeman (Czech Republic 🇨🇿) david_zeman_wildlife(inst)
#birds #thursday #kingfisher #nature #photonature #davidzeman #CzechRepublik #discovery
I’ve recently begun a new role as an advisor to the City of Reykjavik, Iceland. Stay tuned for some really interesting and exciting announcements. One of the best parts about what I get to do is the amazing diversity of cities I get to work with. Very excited about upcoming trips to get to know the city better. #Reykjavik #Iceland
For individuals with #diabetes, #blood pressure should be measured by trained staff at every routine clinical visit. Learn more, and test your knowledge, by exploring the Diabetic Kidney Disease Module: 👉🏻 https://bit.ly/3YsDSkg
@ChristosArgyrop @ErinMichos
#hypertension #diabetes #chronickidneydisease #ckd
@ChristosArgyrop @maggiejk@mstdn.social @Pat
yes that is a possibility too.
I think the important thing to protect your family and others is to treat it as if it's Covid if unsure, and negative rapid test=unsure. Unless you have a negative PCR, assume it's Covid and isolate as best you can - given your work and home circumstances - for 10 days.
Wearing a mask for ten days after any respiratory illness is part of public health advice in many places but it is not advice that is actively promoted by public health and I think most people would be surprised to learn about it.
https://www.ontario.ca/page/public-health-measures-and-advice
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/your-health/isolation.html
#PaidSickDays #PaidSickDaysNow #BetterMasks #WearAMask #MaskUp #n95
Blumenfield, Kempler, and Krajcik (2006) suggest engagement in grounded in four factors:
Value- Learners tend to be engaged with material and lessons they believe are important to them. Value is also closely related to motivation, interest, and goals, all of which are addressed in the next section.
Competence- Learners tend to engage in activities they believe are within their abilities. Competence is grounded in one’s knowledge, their metacognitive abilities and their self-efficacy.
Relatedness- Learners tend to be engaged when they feel positive social connection to their peers.
Autonomy- Learners tend to be engaged when they can exercise choice about what they will study and their plan of study.
Blumenfield, P., Kempler, T., & Krajcik, J. (2006). Motivation and cognitive engagement in learning environments. In R. Keith Sawyer (ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Learning Science, (pp. 475-488). Cambridge University Press.
@maggiejk@mstdn.social @Pat
Some people never test positive on #RapidTests the whole time. It is just not a perfectly sensitive test: it doesn't pick up everyone with #Covid.
RT @LongCovidAdvoc@twitter.com
Everyone deserves the #DavosStandard #UKGovStandard of Covid Mitigations
#CleanAir4All #Ventilation
@chrischirp@twitter.com @dgurdasani1@twitter.com @SGriffin_Lab@twitter.com @karamballes@twitter.com @LongCovidKids@twitter.com @long_covid@twitter.com @Dr2NisreenAlwan@twitter.com @LongCovidSOS@twitter.com
@elisaperego78@twitter.com @loscharlos@twitter.com @ShaneyWright@twitter.com @CleanAirClassrm@twitter.com
@LCNMUK@twitter.com
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/LongCovidAdvoc/status/1616083771522183174
Time for a proper #commodon #introduction! I’m an Associate Prof. of #Communication Studies at Northeastern University. I study #disability and #criticaltech, kids/families’ #tech use, and disabled children’s #media use, primarily through #STS #sociology. My next book with MIT Press (Fall 2023) is “Kids Across the Spectrums: Growing Up Autistic in the Digital Age,” on what young people on the #autism spectrum are doing with media/tech, but also about what it means to “be social” with media.
I’m a professor of medicine at McMaster University #MacDeptMed, #McMasterU
Clinically, I work as a #KidneyDoctor (#Nephrology)
I’m an associate member of #HEI (#Epidemiology) at #McMasterU
I’m a member of the Centre of Excellence in Protective Equipment and Materials (#PPE, #N95, #CEPEM) at #McMasterU
My #Research is in #KidneyDisease #KidneyEpi (#CKD, #Potassium, #CKDProgression) and #Masks
I’m a scientific editor with more than 20 years experience.
I’m editor-in-chief of https://maskevidence.org/ which curates evidence on #BetterMasks and #MasksWork For the pandemic, we need #SystemsApproaches because #CovidIsAirborne and #CovidIsNotOver. #DoAllTheThings #ventilation #filtration #PaidSickDays #BringBackMasks #WearAMask #MasksSaveLives #MaskeAuf #MaskUp #MaskMandate #MaskMandateNow #CovidLong #LongCovid I’d like to see #KidneyVerse as the tag to find others with interest in #KidneyHealth and #KidneyDisease. #AskKidney #AskRenal Also trying to be #LGBTQ2 ally, working on #EDI #Equity, interested in #SocialJustice #UrbanPlanning. Treaty 3|Dish with One Spoon, Turtle Island; Hamilton ON Canada. She/her