Summer Bonus Issue: Covid is still really bad for you!
Extra Bonus: Must reads! A musical interlude that will blow your mind!
Welcome to the first Summer 2024 Bonus Issue for the Covid-Is-Not-Over newsletter!
These bonus issues are basically collections of links that I havenāt been able to use for the regular newsletter. This first bonus issue is all about how Covid is really bad for you. Iāll have one or two more bonus issues before I resume regular newslettering sometime around theĀ beginning of August. Those bonus issues will probably focus on Long Covid and H5N1/Next Pandemic.Ā
But weāll see. No guarantees about number of issues, timing and content. Iāll probably be including Must Read Articles and Musical Interludes in the bonuses, but, then again, I may not.
The whole purpose of these bonus issues is to get something out that I hope you will all find useful but that I donāt have to work too hard on. What with it being summer and all, that seems like the best idea.
With that, Iāll just stop typing.Ā
As most have probably noticed, there is no paid subscription option for this newsletter. However, Substack does have an option where subscribers can pledge to subscribe ājust in caseā and a few kind subscribers have made that pledge. I very much appreciated the vote of confidence in what Iām doing here.Ā What Iāve decided to do on a trial basis is to set up a ātip jarā on the Ko-fi platform.Ā Iām not anticipating a huge surge of income from using Ko-fi but whatever revenue I do end up with, I plan to spend on supporting artists on Bandcamp. Sadly, who knows how long that will seem like a good idea.
Top Articles Everyone Should Read on Covid
Why is EVERYONE more SICK?Ā by Lola GermsĀ
Covid-19: Will It Mutate To Nothingness? by Rawat Deonandan
Everything "That Friend" Wants You to Know About Covid by Jessica Wildfire / OK DoomerĀ
āImmunity debtā is a misguided and dangerous concept by Anjana Ahuja / Financial Times (Non-paywalled version)Ā
Coronavirus Disease 2019 and Airborne Transmission: Science Rejected, Lives Lost. Can Society Do Better? by Lidia Morawska, William Bahnfleth, et al.Ā / Clinical Infectious Diseases
Real Impact of COVID-19 Infection and Why We Should Care by Jeff Gilchrist, PhD
What COVID-19 Does To The Body (Fourth Edition, March 2024) / Pandemic Accountability Index
Let's Face It, Covid Trashed Our Immune Systems by Jessica Wildfire / OK Doomer
Mounting research shows that COVID-19 leaves its mark on the brain, including with significant drops in IQ scores by Ziyad Al-Aly / The ConversationĀ Ā
Navigating the Long Haul: A Comprehensive Review of Long-COVID Sequelae, Patient Impact, Pathogenesis, and Management by Nishant Rathod Jr., Sunil Kumar, et al.Ā / Cureus
Covid Is Really Bad for You
Severe COVID in older adults may be due to greater viral load, weaker immune response | CIDRAPĀ
COVID-19 caused 21% excess of respiratory infections last winter, analysis finds | CIDRAPĀ Ā
Long-COVID patients more likely to report psychiatric symptoms, cost barriers to therapy | CIDRAP
TB-COVID co-infections increasingly common, tied to worse outcomes, data show | CIDRAPĀ
Patients with neurological disease are likelier to die after COVID | Folio
Study shows virus that causes COVID-19 can penetrate blood-retinal-barrier and could damage visionĀ
COVID-19 survivors show lasting brain function alterations, fMRI study finds
COVID-19 linked to rise in autoimmune lung disease, study findsĀ
COVID-19 linked to increased preterm birth, other problems in pregnancy | CIDRAP
Newfound autoimmune syndrome tied to COVID-19 can trigger deadly lung scarring | Live ScienceĀ
Study reveals persistent risk of death, symptoms in COVID survivors at 3 years | CIDRAP
Undervaccinated health workers had higher absenteeism for COVID than flu, data reveal | CIDRAPĀ
Long COVID disproportionately impacts Black and Hispanic communities, as FLiRt variant looms | GBHĀ
Pandemic eroding child, maternal health gains | The Kingston Whig Standard
MU researchers find COVID-19 can cause permanent eye damage | KBIA
The disproportionate toll that COVID-19 took on people with diabetes continues today
COVID can damage sperm for months making it harder to conceive a baby, a new study finds | EuronewsĀ Ā
COVID eye health: SARS-CoV-2 may cause ocular infection, Mizzou study says | Fortune Well
Severe neurologic conditions common in hospitalized kids with COVID, MIS-C, data suggestĀ
More COVID-19 patients died in understaffed hospitals, new data show | CIDRAPĀ
A new look at why old age is linked to severe, even fatal COVID
AI study finds COVID lung damage in patients - Axios AtlantaĀ
COVID infection endangers pregnancies and newborns. Why aren't parents being warned?Ā
Sweden saw 62 per cent rise in childrenās diabetes diagnoses ā one reason could be Covid-19Ā
Mini-Strokes, Gut Problems: Scientists See Links to an Old Bout of Covid
Study reveals cannabis and tobacco users face higher COVID-19 hospitalization and adverse outcomes
New study links COVID-19 to lasting neuropsychiatric issues, highlights vaccination benefitsĀ
Talk about an unexpected collaboration and cover version. The Creator Has a Master Plan by Louis Armstrong with Pharoah Sanders and Leon Thomas.Ā