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The Knowledge Science working group is focused on exploring the advancement of knowledge science.

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COVID-19 is now considered to be a respiratory not vascular disease--new studies

Tue, 2022-06-21 09:26 — mike kraft

Why COVID-19 is considered to be a respiratory disease

Medical professionals and researchers have been studying the link between COVID-19 and vascular symptoms since the beginning of the pandemic. They have learned that people with severe COVID-19 are at a risk of strokes, blood clots, and other vascular complications.

These observations led to several hypotheses that COVID-19 was a vascular disease with respiratory symptoms and not a respiratory disease.

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Enormous databases do not necessarily allow scientists to solve long COVID mysteries

Tue, 2022-06-21 09:10 — mike kraft

How common is long COVID? Why studies give different answers Nature - Enormous databases do not necessarily allow scientists to solve long COVID mysteries, such as how well vaccination protects against the condition. Ledford, Heidi nature

Clinical epidemiologist Ziyad Al-Aly has access to a treasure trove that many researchers can only dream of: millions of sets of electronic medical records from the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), which provides health care for the country’s military veterans.

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Early Omicron infection unlikely to protect against current variants --study

Mon, 2022-06-20 08:42 — mike kraft

Early Omicron infection unlikely to protect against current variants People infected with the earliest version may be vulnerable to reinfection with later versions even if they have been vaccinated and boosted, new findings suggest. Nancy Lapid Reuters

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WHO: Monkeypox won’t turn into pandemic, but many unknowns

Mon, 2022-05-30 09:04 — mike kraft

WHO: Monkeypox won't turn into pandemic, but many unknowns LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization’s top monkeypox expert said she doesn’t expect the hundreds of cases reported to date to turn into another pandemic, but acknowledged there are still many unknowns about the disease, including how exactly it’s spreading and whether the suspension of mass smallpox immunization decades ago may somehow be speeding its transmission. AP NEWS

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Brain fog, other long Covid symptoms can last more than a year, new study finds

Tue, 2022-05-24 09:15 — mike kraft

Brain fog, other long Covid symptoms can last more than a year, study finds The new research is the longest follow-up study of the neurological symptoms among long Covid patients. NBC News

The devastating neurological effects of long Covid can persist for more than a year, research published Tuesday finds — even as other symptoms abate.

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Scientists debate potential benefits of intranasal Covid-19 vaccines

Fri, 2022-05-20 11:18 — mike kraft

A snort or a jab? Scientists debate potential benefits of intranasal Covid-19 vaccines If we want vaccines that protect our upper respiratory tracts, we’re probably going to need products that are administered in the nose — intranasal vaccines. Helen Branswell STAT

As the world amasses experience with Covid-19 vaccines, something we should have known from the start is coming into sharp focus.

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World in no better place to fight pandemics than before COVID - WHO review

Wed, 2022-05-18 09:18 — mike kraft

World in no better place to fight pandemics than before COVID - review The world is no better prepared for a new pandemic than it was when coronavirus emerged in 2019 and may actually be in a worse place given the economic toll, according to a panel set up by the World Health Organization (WHO) to evaluate the global response. Jennifer Rigby Reuters

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Five things to know about long COVID, including asymptomatic cases

Tue, 2022-05-17 17:35 — mike kraft

Five things to know about long COVID COVID-19 cases are rising again — and some of them could lead to the condition known as long COVID, which brings with it myriad symptoms that can severely impact a patient’s life. Research on long … iswanson The Hill

Here are five things we do know about long COVID, despite the scarce definitive data.

People with asymptomatic cases can develop long COVID, too

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55% of Hospitalized COVID Patients Still Had Symptoms at 2 Years

Thu, 2022-05-12 19:34 — mike kraft

55% of Hospitalized COVID Patients Still Had Symptoms at 2 Years 'Ongoing follow-up of COVID-19 survivors is essential,' researcher says Molly Walker medpagetoday

More than half of patients hospitalized for COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, during the initial outbreak reported at least one symptom a couple of years later, researchers found.

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