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https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/study-shows-infants-exposed-covid-utero-risk-developmental-delay

Study shows infants exposed to COVID in utero at risk for developmental delay

A new study based on a cohort of Brazilian infants shows those who were exposed to SARS-CoV-2 infections in the uterus may be at an increased risk for developmental delays in the first year of life.

"All mothers were unvaccinated at the time of cohort inclusion, and maternal demographics were similar in the two groups," the authors wrote. At 12 months, 20.3% of COVID-exposed children and 5.9% of the controls received a diagnosis of neurodevelopmental delay (risk ratio, 3.44; 95% confidence interval, 1.19 to 9.95). For the exposed group, the prevalence of neurodevelopment impairment using the Ages & Stages Questionnaire (ASQ-3) was 35.7% at 4 months, 7.0% at 6 months, and 32.1% at 12 months. "Over 50% of the SARS-CoV-2 exposed infants presented ASQ-3 scores below the expected cutoff, with about half classified with neurodevelopmental delay, mainly at 4 and 12 months,” the authors wrote.

In follow-up of exposed infants, the researchers found 10% had an abnormal result on cranial ultrasonography, mainly mild ventriculomegaly, a swelling in the brain caused by cerebrospinal fluid buildup.

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https://www.ijidonline.com/article/S1201-9712(23)00802-0/fulltext

Developmental impairment in children exposed during pregnancy to maternal SARS-COV2: A Brazilian cohort study.

SARS-CoV-2 exposure was associated with neurodevelopmental impairment, and specific guidelines are needed for the follow-up of these high-risk children to mitigate the long-term effects on children's health.

Steve Yun posted:

have you been quarantining from them using thread advice about air flow

salient posted:

Study shows infants exposed to COVID in utero at risk for developmental delay

salient posted:

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

Any developmental delays will be blamed on remote schooling that happened three years before they were born.

Pink Mist posted:

Is caffeine unrecommended post-covid due to cardiovascular effects?

Louisgod posted:

no, by the time I realized I was dealing with COVID (my oldest was sick on Monday, then youngest didn't feel well Wednesday evening, and I tested her Thursday afternoon), I had already assumed I got got and accepted my fate, though again, did jack up filters and open windows.

Pink Mist posted:

Is caffeine unrecommended post-covid due to cardiovascular effects?

Pink Mist posted:

Is caffeine unrecommended post-covid due to cardiovascular effects?

salient posted:

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

Any developmental delays will be blamed on remote schooling that happened three years before they were born.

SixteenShells posted:

People will just blame the vaccines for it

Pingui posted:

Yes, well... it is going to have to compete for room.

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Professor Miles Carroll, an infectious disease expert at Oxford University’s Pandemic Sciences Institute, is conducting research into how the Ebola virus replicates in former patients and how long it can survive for.

[...]

One theory, held by Carroll and others, is that the sexual transmission of Ebola is linked to “extramarital affairs” or the establishment of new sexual relationships.

“I believe you only get these flare-ups when a male survivor harbouring the virus finds a completely naive partner,” says Carroll.

“His long-term partner will have a level of immunity – probably as a survivor or through background exposure. So she’s safe. But it’s a different story with a new, immunologically naive partner, who is vulnerable to developing serious disease upon sleeping with this man.”

Some have suggested that the 2021 Guinea outbreak was the product of an affair, though, perhaps unsurprisingly, there is no evidence to support this theory.

Pink Mist posted:

Is caffeine unrecommended post-covid due to cardiovascular effects?

salient posted:

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But beyond the high death toll, the full impact of the 1918–1919 pandemic wouldn’t be realized until more than 60 years later. In 2009, Finch and Crimmins published a study examining epidemiological data on individuals born in 1919, who were newborns or second- or third-trimester fetuses during the height of the pandemic. The data revealed that these individuals had approximately 25% more heart disease after age 60, as well as increased diabetes risk, compared to a similar cohort of individuals not born in 1919, including those who were older infants during the pandemic.

While the researchers didn’t have data on exactly which people were exposed to the flu either in utero or as infants in 1918–1919, the results were nevertheless strikingly different between the two age cohorts. In addition to higher levels of ischemic heart disease as well as diabetes in those who could have been exposed prenatally, U.S. census data indicated that the cohort of children born in early 1919 attained less education and had lower economic productivity over their lifetime, suggesting a higher level of developmental impairment or other long-term health issues in those with prenatal flu exposure at the height of the outbreak. Adult height (as recorded at World War II enlistment) was also slightly lower for the 1919 birth cohort than for those born in adjacent years, which suggests that overall growth was also negatively affected.

“The fact that this cohort of people had elevated risks of disease even more than six decades after the pandemic indicates that maternal exposure to the influenza virus appears to have had wide-ranging and long-lasting health effects on offspring,” Crimmins says. Subsequent studies have shed further light on the potential for inflammation to cause indelible damage, especially to the heart.

silicone thrills posted:

someone is going to unironically say lockdowns had an epigenetic effect and im going to lose my loving mind

U-DO Burger posted:

thinking about this article from early in the pandemic

A century of COVID-19: what history tells us about the long-term effects of a pandemic

https://gero.usc.edu/2020/12/08/century-covid-pandemic-risk/

Baddog posted:

The variance on this thing is huge, so many factors. But fundamentally people seem to shed a wide range of virus depending on where most of the infection is, degree of infection, maybe even physiology. It's not just all behavioral, although of course someone going around sneezing into people's faces is worse.

Super spreaders infect everyone they walk into a room with, and on the other end of the spectrum you seem to be really lucking out here.

silicone thrills posted:

someone is going to unironically say lockdowns had an epigenetic effect and im going to lose my loving mind

U-DO Burger posted:

thinking about this article from early in the pandemic

A century of COVID-19: what history tells us about the long-term effects of a pandemic

https://gero.usc.edu/2020/12/08/century-covid-pandemic-risk/

The Oldest Man posted:

What's going to be interesting with COVID is that it's looking like it will never fade into a seasonal, lower rate illness the way the pandemic flu did, so rather than having a few years of hosed up outcomes it's just going to be like that forever now.

Baddog posted:

The variance on this thing is huge, so many factors. But fundamentally people seem to shed a wide range of virus depending on where most of the infection is, degree of infection, maybe even physiology. It's not just all behavioral, although of course someone going around sneezing into people's faces is worse.

Super spreaders infect everyone they walk into a room with, and on the other end of the spectrum you seem to be really lucking out here.

salient posted:

Pingui posted:

2 (small n, unvaccinated mothers)
"Developmental impairment in children exposed during pregnancy to maternal SARS-COV2: A Brazilian cohort study."

I should note that considering the cohort is low-income in Brazil, I have some concerns about causation. Getting financially gutted by illness when you are already that poor, cannot possibly be good for a developing fetus. That said, the abnormal cranial sonography seems to indicate otherwise. I would also note that (without checking the specifics of the measurements), fine motor control being hosed could be in line with the study above showing poor reaction time in a PCC cohort.

Gunshow Poophole posted:

depends on which doctors you ask!

Do you have fatigue due to an unexplainable medical condition that didn't happen until you got Covid but which is definitely NOT related to Covid because Covid is Over?

If so: Have you tried stimulants?

for a non tongue in cheek answer I'm not sure if I've seen any literature specifically regarding caffeine and covid

Pink Mist posted:

Is caffeine unrecommended post-covid due to cardiovascular effects?

NeonPunk posted:

Uhh, this doesn't seem ideal to me

https://twitter.com/RolandBakerIII/status/1740133947059966055

The Oldest Man posted:

I think this is the corrected link https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-27/long-covid-mecfs-health-damaging-relationships-crisis/103205564

Why Am I So Tired posted:

Apologies if it's been posted already (I can't seem to find it), but this is a great article

https://twitter.com/jvipondmd/status/1739841797126566066
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-27/long-covid-mecfs-health-damaging-relationships-crisis

Why Am I So Tired posted:

https://twitter.com/jvipondmd/status/1739841797126566066

maxwellhill posted:

so... just wondered... what else do epidemiologists study that is not the same thing that we in here study?

Why Am I So Tired posted:

Apologies if it's been posted already (I can't seem to find it), but this is a great article

https://twitter.com/jvipondmd/status/1739841797126566066

Edit: whoops, thanks

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-27/long-covid-mecfs-health-damaging-relationships-crisis/103205564 posted:

A healthcare worker in Melbourne, Jackie used up all her long service leave to stay home from work and care for her primary school-age son, which she describes as a "full-time job". But she and her husband still had to borrow money to pay for the many medical appointments and treatments, which she says was a source of tension.

The biggest stress, though, was her husband's refusal to believe their child was actually sick — he was clearly unwell, she says, and struggling particularly with PEM. But often patients' blood tests come back normal and, unless they investigate further, some doctors may be inclined to dismiss symptoms as depression or anxiety or something to tackle with exercise.

"Without a diagnostic test for long COVID I don't think he will ever really accept that [our son] had it," Jackie says. "I just kept thinking, 'If we just had a blood test that says yes, this is long COVID', then he would have fully believed and got behind me."

Instead, Jackie thinks his disbelief was seeded while they were in hospital, where they'd taken their son when he was struggling with confusion and disorientation during his acute COVID infection. There, she sought support from a social worker, thinking they could use all the help they could get. But it seemed to backfire when hospital staff later called her husband to tell him they thought Jackie was "mentally ill" — the inference was she had Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy. All she wanted was for her son to get better.

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The number of people with long COVID who contact Emerge Australia's telehealth service has been steadily increasing since the pandemic began, she says – now they make up 30 per cent of all callers.

DickParasite posted:

We have the tools (gaslighting).

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The number of people with long COVID who contact Emerge Australia's telehealth service has been steadily increasing since the pandemic began, she says – now they make up 30 per cent of all callers.

Mr Hootington posted:

That isn't very many

DR FRASIER KRANG posted:

I re-watched The Santa Clause last week and the most realistic part of that film is when he goes to the doctor after developing Santa Symptoms (i.e. gaining tons of weight, hair going gray, facial hair sprouting everywhere), he's told to go on a diet and dye his hair then told to gently caress right off.