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COVID-19

Curated by Peter Hulm

Special sections: Science, Impact, Response, Good sources

COVID-19 scoreboard: Reported cases and deaths by country, ordered by totals

From July 2023 see general news for non-medical news

Science

Brain fog after Covid linked to blood clots — studyground.news main source: Nature Medicine, 11 media reports31 August 2023 (LINK)

COVID-19 infection linked to increased risk of high blood pressureground.news main source: Hypertension, American Heart Association journal, 37 media reports21 August 2023 (LINK)

Many long-covid symptoms linger even after two years, new study showsground.news: media reports21 August 2023 (LINK)

WHO classifies EG.5 ('Eris'), the variant most prevalent in US, as COVID-19 'variant of interest' but says it does not seem to pose more of a threat to public health than other variantsground.news: 28 media reports9 August 2023 (LINK)

'Brain fog' of long Covid comparable to ageing 10 years and effects felt even after two years, study findsground.news: 9 media reports21 July 2023 (LINK)

WHO warns Covid 'has not gone away' with 1,000 dying each week in Europeground.news: 27 media reports — factuality: high 27 June 2023 (LINK)

US intelligence report on COVID-19 origins split over lab leak theoryAP.com24 June 2023 (LINK)

— Four agencies still believe the virus was transferred from animals to humans, and two agencies — the Energy Department and the FBI — believe the virus leaked from a lab. The CIA and another agency have not made an assessment.

No clear evidence hat the three sickened Wuhan Institute of Virology researchers had COVID-19 in November, 2019, as opposed to several other respiratory viruses that can cause similar symptomsthemessenger.com21 June 2023 (LINK)

— A declassified summary of U.S. intelligence released in late 2021 noted that the reported cases are "not diagnostic of the pandemic's origins." The report added: "Even if confirmed, hospital admission alone would not be diagnostic of COVID-19 infection."

?U.S. Funded Scientist One of Several Wuhan Lab Researchers Sickened During Early Covid Outbreak?gizmodo.com20 June 2023 (LINK)

— One of the researchers was a scientist who had received significant funding from the U.S. government and whose research has focused on "how coronaviruses infect humans. At WIV, he was responsible for overseeing "gain of function" research — the controversial scientific field that involves mutating viruses to make them more deadly and more contagious—involving coronaviruses.

?"Covid 'patient zero' NAMED as Wuhan scientist who conducted deadly tests on souped-up virus, bombshell report"?ground.news: 12 → media reports14 June 2023 (LINK)

— Three lab researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) are believed to be the first known cases of COVID-19, according to unnamed US officials involved in investigating the origins of the pandemic. One allegedly led a gain-of-function research team at the WIV on SARS-like coronaviruses in the lead-up to the pandemic.


Covid: Top Chinese scientist says don't rule out lab leak but Chinese officials have investigated the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) and found no "wrongdoing" in the lab: first indication by top Chinese scientist that Beijing takes lab leak theory seriously: nearly 7m people have diedground.news: 33 media reports31 May 2023 (LINK)

Long COVID's 200 Symptoms Have Been Narrowed Down To Just 12iflscience.com29 May 2023 (LINK)

Government-funded study creates first symptom-based long Covid definition, a step toward finding treatmentsground.news: 12 media reports25 May 2023 (LINK)

— Long COVID, or Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC), includes 12 symptoms that present or persist more than 30 days after COVID-19 infection. Over 650 million people globally have been infected with SARS-CoV-2.


China's New Covid Wave Set to See 65 Million Cases a Weekground.news: 9 media reports23 May 2023 (LINK)


Mexico develops own COVID-19 vaccine, 2 years lateground.news: 43 media reports3 May 2023 (LINK)

A new long Covid treatment shows promise, but U.S. insurance won't cover it and some doctors are skeptical: Here's whycnbc20 April 2023 (LINK)

— Some long Covid patients swear by hyperbaric oxygen therapy, which can cost more than $50,000 per person. Here's why some experts caution against it.

In pressurized medical-grade chambers, patients alternate between breathing pure oxygen through a mask and regular air. When you go from the former to the latter, your brain interprets the drop in pressure as a lack of oxygen, says Dr. Mohammed Elamir, a physician at The Villages, Florida-based Aviv Clinics. That triggers stem cell production and blood vessel growth in the brain, which helps the body repair itself in a variety of ways, Elamir says.

Coronavirus leak from Wuhan lab was 'unintentional', reveals US Senate report ground.news: 4 sources18 April 2023 (LINK)

New Study: COVID-19 Omicron Variant Is More Deadly Than the Seasonal Fluscitechdaily14 April 2023 (LINK)

WHO experts revise Covid-19 vaccine advice, say healthy kids and teens low riskCNN29 March 2023 (LINK)

Newly released Chinese Covid data points to infected animals in WuhanThe Guardian21 March 2023 (LINK)

Here's How Long You're Contagious With The Latest COVID Variant: Long story short, you are likely contagious for about 10 days after symptoms begin. You should isolate for the first five days and wear a mask on at least days six through 10huffpost20 January 2023 (LINK)

Have face masks become less effective at managing COVID?sciencefocus15 January 2023 (LINK)

— Throughout the end of 2021, children and adults who declared they "always" wore a face covering at work or school were less likely to test positive for COVID-19 compared to those who "never" or "sometimes" wore a mask. As you may expect. However, from January to May 2022, this trend faded. The likelihood that somebody who never or sometimes wore a mask would test positive was extremely similar to the chance a person who always wears a face mask would test positive. In other words, from January to May 2022, the risk of getting a COVID infection was nearly the same for those who did and didn't wear a mask. But...

Omicron subvariant XBB.1.5 possibly more likely to infect those who are vaccinated, New York officials sayfoxnews / Yahoo news14 January 2023 (LINK)

Study compares effectiveness of Pfizer vs. Moderna booster COVID vaccines after third dosenews-medical.net3 January 2023 (LINK)

— Both vaccines reduced the absolute risks of breakthrough SARS-CoV-2 infections and severe COVID-19 outcomes. However, mRNA-1273 recipients had a lower risk of COVID-19-related adverse events over 16 weeks of follow-up than the BNT162b2 vaccine recipients, particularly for reported SARS-CoV-2 infections. The findings remained comparable across periods spanning Delta and Omicron predominance and only Omicron predominance.

What You Should Know About Chronic Coughing After COVID-19yahoo news27 December 2022 (LINK)

Impact

15 million excess deaths worldwide were caused by COVID over two yearsground.news: 22 reports19 May 2023 (LINK)


Up to 70% of Shanghai population infected with COVID-19: Top doctorground.news: 22 sources3 January 2023 (LINK)

Response

Chinese authorities were preparing Sunday to release a man who disappeared three years ago after publicizing videos of overcrowded hospitals and bodies during the COVID-19 outbreak, a relative and another person familiar with his case saidground.news: 63 media reports30 April 2023 (LINK)


Switzerland not recommending spring-summer COVID-19 vaccine, including for high-risk individuals boosted under six months agoground.news: 11 sources11 April 2023 (LINK)


Billionaires at Davos Don't Think COVID Is a Coldslate20 January 2023 (LINK)

— You wouldn't know — not unless you asked — that every attendee was PCR tested before entering the forum, or that in the case of a positive test, access was automatically, electronically, revoked. It's hard to square this information with the public narrative about COVID, isn't it?

BBC broadcast misleading vaccine commentsfullfact20 January 2023 (LINK)

— On 18 January BBC published an update to their Corrections and Clarifications page about the interview, apologising that "we were not better prepared at the time to challenge Dr Malhotra's points during his interview."

EU countries agree to demand COVID-19 test for travellers coming from China ground.news: 117 sources4 January 2023 (LINK)

WHO pressures China to come clean on Covidgenevasolutions4 January 2023 (LINK)

— ground.news: WHO worried about surge of COVID in China amid lack of info: 101 sources (LINK)

Sources for good information about coronavirus

Geneva Environment Network page of sources on COVID-19 — added 28 September 2020

Country charts of deaths from COVID-19: US

Country charts of deaths from COVID-19: Switzerland

Reported cases and deaths by country, ordered by totals

A Swiss scientist's infographic about COVID-19 in Switzerland: much the best source — Added 31 August 2020

Official Swiss COVID-19 page (LINK)

John Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center — Added 30 August 2020

Earlier NuseReal COVID-19 postings

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