September 16, 2024
The Press Release:
Covid-19 may lead to longest period of peacetime excess mortality.
"COVID-19 is far from over. The US reported an average of 1500 COVID-19 deaths a week for 2023 – comparable to fentanyl or firearm deaths."

August 10, 2024
Noah Lyles' collapse underscores our collective COVID denial.
"We keep pretending that the pandemic is done and over."

June 27, 2024
The Article:
Vaccination may reduce memory loss from COVID-19 infections.
"Since the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, 10 to 30% of the general population has experienced some form of virus-induced cognitive impairment, including trouble concentrating, brain fog or memory loss."

The Study:
Vaccination reduces central nervous system IL-1B and memory deficits after COVID-19 in mice.
"Up to 25% of individuals infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) exhibit postacute cognitive sequelae."

June 16, 2024
We've Hit Peak Denial. Here's Why We Can't Turn Away From Reality.
"COVID is a good case study for illustrating the 'Collective Denial Playbook' that underpins our new normal reality."

June 11, 2024
The Article:
COVID can seriously damage your vision, even if you didn't have symptoms.
"This holds true even if the virus didn't enter your body through the surface of your eyes." P> The Study:
SARS-CoV-2 infects cells lining the blood-retinal barrier and induces a hyperinflammatory immune response in the retina via systemic exposure.
"SARS-CoV-2 has been shown to cause wide-ranging ocular abnormalities and vision impairment in COVID-19 patients."

May 23, 2024
The Article:
Study confirms face masks' effectiveness in reducing disease transmission
"The analysis of the same RCTs separately for continuous and intermittent use revealed that the continuous use of N95s was significantly protective against clinical respiratory illness... and... consistent findings across multiple studies have revealed the absence of clinically meaningful serious harm."

The Study:
Masks and respirators for prevention of respiratory infections: a state of the science review
"First, the claim that masks don't work is demonstrably incorrect."

April 2, 2024
The Study:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X24001270COVID-19 vaccines and adverse events of special interest: A multinational Global Vaccine Data Network (GVDN) cohort study of 99 million vaccinated individuals.
"Conclusion: This multi-country analysis confirmed pre-established safety signals for myocarditis, pericarditis, Guillain-Barre syndrome, and cerebral venous sinus thrombosis."

March 15, 2024
'Alarming' rise in Americans with long Covid symptoms
"The rate of adults currently experiencing long Covid has not been this high since November 2022."

March 7, 2024
3 COVID Experts on Why the CDC's Isolation Guidelines Are Bad for Public Health
"...these bare-bones isolation guidelines will likely make more people sick -- and that this approach increasingly places the burden of public health on individual people, which is dangerous for everyone, but especially for those at a higher risk of complications from the virus."

Brain Inflammation and Intracellular a-Synuclein Aggregates in Macaques after SARS-CoV-2 Infection
"the findings can be regarded as a warning for the risk of developing long-term neurological complications, even after an asymptomatic infection or mild disease process."

CDC Drops Five Day Covid-19 Isolation Despite Controversy
"People can't judge whether they are infectious or not. Fever is not a good barometer for Covid-19. While most transmission occurs early in the illness, 20 to 40% of people can still transmit COVID after five days, and some even longer."

February 29, 2024 (Update)
libguides.mskcc.org/CovidImpacts/Immune
"For example, what if SARS-CoV-2 infection causes the immune system to be able to respond to SARS-CoV-2 in such a way that we no longer experience severe COVID infections, but rather it causes a subtler, long-term immunological changes that leave us more vulnerable to other infections or even chronic disease?"

February 28, 2024
Top COVID-19 and long COVID researcher Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly, Chief of Research and Development, VA St. Louis Health Care System and Clinical Epidemiologist at Washington University in St. Louis:
Mounting research shows that COVID-19 leaves its mark on the brain, including with significant drops in IQ scores
"DCE-MRI imaging revealed significantly increased whole-brain leakage in patients with long COVID with brain fog, with an increased percentage of brain volume with leaky blood vessels in the cohort with brain fog compared to the cohort without brain fog."

New Research shows that Covid 19 can cause significant drops in IQ Scores. BoingBoing.net

April 11, 2023
sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1074761323001255 - Immunity Theft
"...these findings suggest that SARS-CoV-2 infection damages the CD8+ T cell response, an effect akin to that observed in earlier studies showing long-term damage to the immune system after infection with viruses such as hepatitis C or HIV. The new findings highlight the need to develop vaccination strategies to specifically boost antiviral CD8+ T cell responses in people previously infected with SARS-CoV-2, the researchers conclude."

February 13, 2024
Scientificamerican.com/article/how-risky-are-repeat-covid-infections-what-we-know-so-far

February 21, 2024
msn.com/en-us/health/other/how-repeat-covid-infections-can-harm-your-health
"Doctors say there's evidence that repeat Covid infections could increase your risk for many other health problems, including diabetes, heart conditions, gastrointestinal diseases, and long Covid."

"Each infection is like taking a chance at the lottery," Dr. Friedberg says. "The odds are a bit better than they were three years ago, but there is still a chance you could end up with serious illness, permanently disabling changes in your ability to think, breathe, or move, or die from this disease."

Heart Problems After Covid
"Does COVID-19 cause heart problems? Yes. A severe or even mild case of COVID-19 can make you more likely to have heart failure or a heart attack." (emphasis mine)

February, 2024
Blood-brain barrier disruption and sustained systemic inflammation in individuals with long COVID-associated cognitive impairment Nature.com
"Here we show that BBB disruption is evident during acute infection and in patients with long COVID with cognitive impairment, commonly referred to as brain fog."

Temporal Association between COVID-19 Infection and Subsequent New-Onset Dementia in Older Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
"COVID-19 infection may be linked to a higher risk of NOD [New-Onset Dementia] in recovered old adults at the subacute and chronic stages following COVID-19 diagnosis."

September, 2022
Long-Term neurologic outcomes of COVID-19

September, 2021 (Updated)
Even mild cases of COVID-19 can leave a mark on the brain, such as reductions in gray matter - a neuroscientist explains emerging research

December 9, 2020
The Article:
Virtually all children infected with COVID-19 show signs of blood vessel damage.
"...this sign of cardiovascular damage is being seen in asymptomatic children as well as kids experiencing COVID-19 symptoms."