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There’s a gaping hole in Canada’s COVID tracking

Published August 22, 2024

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Published by: Toronto Star
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By Iris Gorfinkel

The Government of Canada’s website tracks the number of hospitalizations and deaths from acute COVID-19. What it fails to include are the hospitalizations and deaths that result from COVID’s longer-term health consequences.

Even mild cases carry risk, but COVID most frequently wallops people after severe cases, especially when hospitalized. Of the nearly 300,000 Canadians hospitalized so far, over half likely have — or will — suffer life-changing health consequences, sometimes years after having recovered from the acute illness. These risks climb with repeated infections.

Hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-19 are often delayed. Like high blood pressure, SARS CoV-2 can gradually damage the inner lining of blood vessels. This by itself, is painless. While it happens to people following mild cases of COVID, it’s far more likely after severe ones, especially after hospitalization. This doubles the downstream risk of having a heart attack, stroke or blood clot in the lung. It triples the risk of developing an abnormal heart rhythm, including atrial fibrillation.

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Existential crisis: how long COVID patients helped us understand what it’s like to lose your sense of identity and purpose in life

Published August 24, 2023

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Published by: The Conversation
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By Chao Fang, JD Carpentieri and Sarah Akhtar Baz

This isn’t who I am – I don’t recognise myself. I panic if I get on the Tube and there’s no seat. It’s a very strange feeling, like not being in your own body. My fear is I’ll never really get better, and that I’m always going to be at 70% of my former self.

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Opinion: Study shows ‘long COVID’ likely to cause mass misery if treatments can’t be developed

Published August 24, 2023

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Published by: The San Diego Union-Tribune
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By The San Diego Union-Tribune Editorial Board

Given that 103 million Americans and 770 million people worldwide have been diagnosed as having contracted COVID-19, a future of misery could await a stunningly large cross-section of humanity.

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COVID-19 boosts risks of health problems 2 years later, giant study of veterans says

Published August 21, 2023

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Published by: Science
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By Catherine Offord

“In the 3 months postinfection, people who’d had COVID-19 had higher rates of death and many health conditions including heart failure, diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease, and depression.”

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Study: 1 in 6 kids have persistent COVID symptoms for 3 months after infection

Published July 21, 2023

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Published by: CIDRAP
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By Stephanie Soucheray

It was thought at first that the pediatric population was relatively spared from the long-term effects of COVID-19 after infection. But this changed rapidly with increasing reports and studies of pediatric patients not fully recovering from acute COVID-19.

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Long COVID Is Disabling Kids. Why We Ignore It

Published July 20, 2023

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Published by: The Tyee
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By Crawford Kilian

Yet we may have disastrously underestimated one of the most serious sequelae: infection of the brain and nervous system. And we may have missed the neurological damage done to children and young adults who seem to have recovered from COVID-19.

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Scientists Are Just Beginning to Understand COVID-19’s Effect On the Brain

Published July 17, 2023

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July 17, 2023

The list of neurocognitive issues that Meropol’s team and other researchers must track is extensive: cognitive decline, changes in brain size and structure, depression and suicidal thinking, tremors, seizures, memory loss, and new or worsened dementia have all been linked to previous SARS-CoV-2 infections. In some cases, these longer-term problems occur even in patients with relatively mild COVID-19.

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CAMH study confirms ongoing brain inflammation associated with long COVID

Published June 1, 2023

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Published by: Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
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A new Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) study found elevated levels of inflammation in the brains of patients who report persistent symptoms of long COVID.

Using advanced brain scanning with positron emission tomography (PET), the researchers found elevated levels of the protein TSPO, a brain marker of inflammation, in patients with onset of depression within several months after a COVID-19 infection.

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Beyond the pandemic: Long COVID emerges as a silent crisis

Published March 15, 2023

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Published by: Imprint
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By Halona Augustine, Khalid Safdar

[I]t appears that, regardless of gender and other demographic factors, COVID-19 infection at baseline is correlated with increased problems with emotion regulation six months later: depression, anxiety and agitation.

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