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Long COVID affects more older adults; shots don't prevent it

New U.S. research on long COVID-19 provides fresh evidence that it can happen even after breakthrough infections in vaccinated people, and that older adults face higher risk.

https://apnews.com/article/long-covid-breakthrough-infections-e05e67c5bb12c18c594aaf5ec6dec954

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Durability of BNT162b2 #vaccine against hospital and emergency department admissions due to the omicron and delta variants in a large health system in the USA: a test-negative case–control study

"Against the #omicron variant, however, this protection is likely to wane significantly over time—even after a third #dose."

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(22)00101-1/fulltext#seccestitle10

Replace "The Times" and "Americans" for an outlet of your country and your nationality:

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"The Times is not alone; several large mainstream publications, in complicity with politicians of both major political parties, have been beating a death knell of a drum for getting “back to normal” for months. The effect is the manufactured consent to normalize mass death and suffering—to subtly suggest to Americans that they want to move on."

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/there-is-nothing-normal-about-one-million-people-dead-from-covid1/

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"For SARS-CoV-2, the virus depends for its existence on reinfecting people who have been infected the year before. We are fighting millions of years of evolution of an organism that knows how to fool our immune system and get into us again and again"

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"We still have no clue whether one genetic change or many make SARS-CoV-1 so much more #virulent than SARS-CoV-2. As long as we are in the dark about what it is that determines the virulence of the virus, we have no idea which direction the next variant will come from. So I’ve been telling policy makers to be optimistic about the upside but prepare for the #downside."

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/discovery-of-new-hiv-variant-sends-warning-for-covid-pandemic/

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"Furthermore, infection experiments using hamsters show that BA.2 is more #pathogenic than BA.1. Our multiscale investigations suggest that the risk of BA.2 for global health is potentially higher than that of BA.1."

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.02.14.480335v1.full

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This note sets out a range of scenarios to illustrate possible courses of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic for the UK.
All assume that SARS-CoV-2 will continue to circulate for the foreseeable future and that #variants will emerge

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1054323/S1513_Viral_Evolution_Scenarios.pdf

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Here are four possible #scenarios, each taken from the known evolutionary playbook of #coronaviruses:

1.A slide toward endemicity

2.Altered disease and symptoms

"In humans, SARS-CoV-2 has been found in the #intestine, #kidney, and central #nervous system. A new SARS-CoV-2 variant with redirected preference for new organs (organ tropism) could produce new Covid-19 signs and symptoms."

3.Emergence of a new recombinant coronavirus

4.Exploitation of antibodies

"In this worrisome scenario, SARS-CoV-2 evolves to not only evade its human host’s immune response but to actively exploit it. The successive major variants of SARS-CoV-2 so far show that the evolution of the virus helps evade the #immune system. But some coronaviruses take evasion to the level of exploitation."

https://www.statnews.com/2022/02/16/coronaviruses-are-clever-evolutionary-scenarios-for-the-future-of-sars-cov-2/

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Heart-disease risk soars after #COVID — even with a mild case

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00403-0

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Long-term cardiovascular outcomes of COVID-19

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-01689-3

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“BA.2 appears to be even more transmissible than the original #omicron strain (BA.1). It is starting to increase in relative frequency and we might expect it to become dominant in the #UK in the next few weeks, as it has done in Denmark recently."

https://www.bmj.com/content/376/bmj.o263