Roger king
Superstar
Yet nearly half of the country who watches fox news and NEWsmax thinks its all a hoax created by the chinese...
Covid will be a leading cause of death in the U.S. indefinitely, whether or not the pandemic is 'over'
Neo. The Only. The One.
THE ONE
Godless Socialist CEO
Superstar
It’s incredible how lazy some of y’all are
The news talked about that ALOT
What Happened to the Flu This Year?
FRIDAY, Jan. 15, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The United States has far fewer flu cases than normal, and experts say it's probably due to measures people are taking to protect themselves from COVID-19. Flu season usually peaks between December and February. Influenza typically causes about 45...
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What Happened To The Flu?
CDC data show 2020-2021 was the mildest flu season on record.
www.forbes.com
What happened to the flu this year?
The United States has far fewer flu cases than normal, and experts say it's probably due to measures people are taking to protect themselves from COVID-19. Touro Family Medicine Physician Dr. Meredith Maxwell discusses why flu numbers are down and the contributing factors.
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The Flu Vanished During Covid. What Will Its Return Look Like? (Published 2021)
The latest flu season, which normally would have run until next month, essentially never happened.
Like damn all I searched for is “what happened to the flu” and that and a bunch of other shyt popped up. The lack of intellectual curiosity is maddening and disappointing
Godless Socialist CEO
Superstar
Yep, be smart and take care of urself. All you can do now because Americans have no interest in doing what’s right for the general public due to propaganda
HarlemHottie
Uptown Thoroughbred
How so? I just didn't trust the shyt, I didn't set a doomsday clock.
* still masked up btw
staticshock
Veteran
My job still requires us to wear them. I don’t mind.
But what I love most is going to the Kroger or Publix on the white side of my town with my mask on trigging them
Neo. The Only. The One.
THE ONE
How so? I just didn't trust the shyt, I didn't set a doomsday clock.
* still masked up btw
I'm specifically talking about that time you told me that you thought the vaccine was a way to kill people to cull the herd because Bill Gates said there were too many people draining resources
I meant to block your weird ass a long time ago
Because I’m gonna just come on here and make shyt up. Is it a lie that I’m unvaxxed and haven’t had COVID once? It’s 3 years later and some of us are so damn dumb that we STILL can’t see the world got played?
this too
Lasting Lung Damage Seen in Children and Teens after COVID
September 20, 2022 — Children and adolescents who have either recovered from COVID-19 or have long COVID show persistent lung damage on MRI, according to awww.itnonline.com
SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
Lasting Lung Damage Seen in Children and Teens after COVID
September 20, 2022 — Children and adolescents who have either recovered from COVID-19 or have long COVID show persistent lung damage on MRI, according to a study published in Radiology, a journal of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).
COVID-19 is an infectious disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Since emerging in late 2019, it has killed more than 5 million people worldwide. The lungs are the primary target for the virus.
Study of the disease’s long-term effects has accelerated as the number of COVID survivors climbs and more people are diagnosed with long COVID. The World Health Organization defines long COVID as involving symptoms that persist for a minimum of 12 weeks and other factors, such as symptoms that result in a new health limitation or worsening of a pre-existing underlying medical condition.
The nature of the post-acute phase of the infection is poorly understood in younger people. CT has shown persistent damage to the lungs in adults, but CT uses ionizing radiation and has limited diagnostic value in children, where lung changes due to COVID-19 are less pronounced.
“We conceived this study when the evidence for long- or post-COVID cases in adults was growing,” said study senior author Ferdinand Knieling, M.D., specialist in pediatrics and adolescent medicine from the departments of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine at University Hospital Erlangen in Erlangen, Germany. “This was also when the first patients with unspecific symptoms were seen in our department, and parents started to ask about an association with a prior infection.”
Dr. Knieling and colleagues studied COVID-19’s effects in children and adolescents using low-field MRI. The technology relies on a lower magnetic field than conventional MRI and allows for free breathing, meaning the subjects do not have to hold their breath during imaging. This makes scanning more feasible in children.
“As parents, we also wanted to find what risks an infection might have,” Dr. Knieling said. “Luckily, our departments teamed up to use their brand-new MRI scanner designed for investigations in children and adolescents.”
The researchers looked at changes in lung structure and function in 54 children and adolescents (mean age 11 years) with previous SARS-CoV-2 infection. Of the 54 patients, 29 had recovered, and 25 had long COVID. All but one of the patients had been unvaccinated at the time of original infection.
None of the COVID-19 group required hospital admission during the primary infection period. Shortness of breath, impaired attention, headache, fatigue and loss of smell were the most commonly reported symptoms at the time of the study. Results from the COVID-19 group were compared with those from nine healthy controls.
MRI allowed the researchers to derive the V/Q match, a measure of air and blood flow in the lungs. If lungs are working properly, the air and blood flow should match.
V/Q matches showed persistent pulmonary dysfunction in the patients who had recovered from COVID-19 and in those with long COVID. The V/Q match was 62% in the recovered group and 60% in the long COVID group—both considerably lower than the 81% match in healthy controls.
“Persistent symptoms after COVID still cause diagnostic odysseys, and this is especially true for young people,” Dr. Knieling said. “Our findings illustrate that caring for these patients is a multidisciplinary challenge.”
Long-term implications of these lung changes remain unclear, but the results warrant further surveillance of persistent lung damage in children and adolescents after COVID-19, Dr. Knieling said. Lung MRI is already widely available, he noted, making these imaging approaches easy to integrate into clinical routine care. More research will help show the full potential of MRI in COVID-19 survivors.
“A follow-up trial has already started, and we seek to understand how findings change over time,” Dr. Knieling said. “Additionally, we will take closer looks at other organs to see how this correlates with our findings.”
For more information: www.rsna.org