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La COVID longue, un mal invisible (mais bien présent)

Published by: Radio-Canada
Published on: March 13, 2023
By Mélanie Meloche-Holubowski

The majority of people experience extreme fatigue and many suffer post-stress discomfort, a kind of energy crash. Brain fog, lack of concentration and memory loss are also common symptoms.

Some people develop conditions and syndromes such as postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), characterized by dizziness and palpitations when a person is in a upright position. Others develop dysautonomia, which causes palpitations, pressure rises or falls, dizziness and gastric problems.

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Long COVID: 3 years in

Published March 11, 2023

Published by: The Lancet
Published on: March 11, 2023

March 11 marks 3 years since WHO declared COVID-19 to be a pandemic. While the world is determined to move on from the acute phase, at least 65 million people are estimated to struggle with long COVID, a debilitating post-infection multisystem condition with common symptoms of fatigue, shortness of breath, and cognitive dysfunction, impairing their ability to perform daily activities for several months or years. Although the majority of patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 recover within a few weeks, long COVID is estimated to occur in 10–20% of cases and affects people of all ages, including children, with most cases occurring in patients with mild acute illness. The consequence is widespread global harm to people’s health, wellbeing, and livelihoods—an estimated one in ten people who develop long COVID stop working, resulting in extensive economic losses.

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« On n’a pas d’aide » : des gens atteints par la COVID longue désemparés

Published March 5, 2023

Published by: Le Journal de Montréal
Published on: March 5, 2023
By Hugo Duchaine

Long COVID threatens about 10% of Quebecers who contract the virus, leaving patients helpless and the few clinics overwhelmed. Although vaccination reduces the risks, they are still present.

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Long COVID linked to lower brain oxygen levels, cognitive problems and psychiatric symptoms

Published March 1, 2023

Published by: University of Waterloo
Published on: March 1, 2023

We are the first to show reduced oxygen uptake in the brain during a cognitive task in the months following a symptomatic COVID-19 infection. This is important because a lack of sufficient oxygen supply is thought to be one of the mechanisms by which COVID-19 may cause cognitive impairment.

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Une médecin de l’Outaouais atteinte de COVID longue raconte comment sa vie a basculé

Published February 23, 2023

Published by: Radio-Canada
Published on: February 23, 2023
By Gaëlle Kanyeba

Mélanie Lacasse has a heart that beats much too fast when she makes the least physical effort. This family doctor from Gatineau, suffering from the post-COVID-19 syndrome, called long COVID, had to learn to reinvent herself and change her lifestyle. A situation all the more difficult because it affects her profession considerably.

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Κορωνοϊός: Οι περισσότεροι ασθενείς με long Covid εμφανίζουν βλάβες οργάνων ένα χρόνο μετά

Published February 22, 2023

Published by: Η Καθημερινή
Published on: February 22, 2023

More than half of patients with long Covid suffer from organ damage a year after the initial symptoms, new research suggests.

Even those who were not seriously ill when diagnosed with the virus report problems, with extreme difficulty breathing and cognitive impairment among the persistent symptoms.

The study, the results of which were published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, involved 536 people.

Six months after their initial diagnosis with coronavirus, the patients underwent an MRI scan which revealed ongoing health problems, with 62% of participants suffering from organ damage.

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Do Repeat COVID Infections Increase the Risk of Severe Disease or Long COVID?

Published February 15, 2023

Published by: Scientific American
Published on: February 15, 2023
By Charles Schmidt

Many repeat infections are mild, but some studies suggest people who have been infected with COVID more than once are at a greater risk of severe disease or long COVID.

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We Now Face an Army of COVID Viruses

Published January 30, 2023

Published by: The Tyee
Published on: January 30, 2023
By Andrew Nikiforuk

As leaders have shifted to the position that masks and tests are matter of personal choice rather than collective self-preservation, they have implicitly silenced a vital message to the citizenry about how pandemics actually come to an end. It is this: less transmission means fewer mutations; fewer mutations means less variation, the fuel of evolution. Reducing infections, then, puts the brakes on viral evolution.

The combined actions of “letting the virus rip” in a population with varying degrees of protective and waning immunity created by vaccines or previous infections “has led to unprecedented increase in viral diversification in 2022,” as one group of researchers explained in a recent paper published in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences.

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Long COVID Has Never Been Taken Seriously. Here’s Where It Left Us

Published January 26, 2023

Published by: The Tyee
Published on: January 26, 2023
By Sophie Harrison

Long COVID turned my life upside down. Amidst all the loss I’ve experienced, there’s been the cognitive dissonance of watching most of the rest of the world try to return to normal, without me in it. And seemingly unaware of the reality that COVID-19 is still out there, resulting in long-term chronic illness for a significant share of people infected.

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Long COVID stemmed from mild cases of COVID-19 in most people

Published January 5, 2023

Published by: Ars Technica / The Conversation
Published on: January 5, 2023
By Sarah Wulf Hanson, Theo Vos

Even mild COVID-19 cases can have major and long-lasting effects on people’s health. That is one of the key findings from our recent multicountry study on long COVID-19—or long COVID—recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

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Ten COVID Facts Health Officials Dangerously Downplay

Published December 21, 2022

Published by: The Tyee
Published on: December 21, 2022
By Andrew Nikiforuk

Do not listen to powers that be who pretend that getting infected with COVID multiple times is now no big deal. They’re asking you to lower your guard for a nasty virus that can invade the brain, disregulate the immune system and damage the vascular system.

This strategy has led to predictable results — more direct deaths, more excess deaths, more disease and some 1.4 million Canadians reporting some form of long COVID over the last two years.

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“I don’t feel protected”: How a lack of COVID-19 protections is impacting mental health

Published December 15, 2022

Published by: The Georgia Straight
Published on: December 15, 2022
By V.S. Wells

People who are COVID-aware or at high risk discuss the mental health burden of staying safe.

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How long COVID ruined my life, from crushing fatigue to brain fog

Published November 16, 2022

Published by: Sky News
Published on: November 16, 2022
By Rowland Manthorpe

The change struck like a bolt of lightning from a clear blue sky. I’d been under the weather for a couple of weeks – nothing major, just a persistent cough, but for some reason I couldn’t seem to shift it. I took a day off work and carried on. Until 19 March, when I woke up and everything was different.

I was tired – overwhelmingly, crushingly tired, as if I’d been up for days, when in fact I’d slept all night – and I couldn’t think straight. When I tried to text my boss to tell him I wasn’t going to be able to make it into work, it took me more than an hour to string a sentence together.

Eventually, I got out a short apologetic message. Then I went back to bed, where I stayed for three days straight. It should have been scary, but I was too tired to be scared. The need for rest overwhelmed every thought or feeling.

—Rowland Manthorpe

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Long COVID is ‘not rare’ and can develop after mild illness, says Montreal specialist

Published November 8, 2022

Published by: CTV News
Published on: November 8, 2022

The Quebec government is setting up 15 clinics across the province to treat people with long COVID and Lyme disease. The first one to open in Montreal is located at the Jewish General Hospital.

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Jewish General Hospital opens long-COVID and Lyme disease clinic

Published November 1, 2022

Published by: Montreal Gazette
Published on: November 1, 2022

The CIUSSS West-Central Montreal regional health authority announced the opening of a clinic for patients with persistent symptoms of COVID-19 and Lyme disease at the Jewish General Hospital on Monday.

“Although most of the people who get COVID-19 recover within a few weeks, some — even those who had mild versions of the disease — might have symptoms that last a long time afterward,” Dr. Karl Weiss, chief of the Jewish General Hospital’s division of infectious diseases, noted in a statement. “These symptoms can be disabling, making it difficult to perform daily activities or to return to work or school. They may vary in intensity from day to day, and over time.

“Research and knowledge about treating this illness known as long-COVID syndrome is emerging and rapidly evolving. Our goal in establishing the referral centre is to provide patients with leading-edge care, while improving our understanding of the disease.”

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Une nouvelle clinique visant la COVID longue et la maladie de Lyme chronique à Montréal

Published November 1, 2022

Published by: Le Devoir
Published on: November 1, 2022
By Pauline Gravel

A clinic dedicated to people with long COVID or persistent symptoms of Lyme disease has just opened at the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal. This reference centre, which will combine clinical and research on these two syndromes still poorly understood, is one of the 15 clinics announced last May by the Ministry of Health and Social Services (MSSS).

“Although we do not yet have a very good understanding of the pathophysiology of these two diseases, we know that both of them sometimes cause long-term sequelae that persist even though the infection seems to have disappeared from the organism,” explains Dr Leighanne Parkes, microbiolgist-infectiologist at this new clinic.

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One of Long COVID’s Worst Symptoms Is Also Its Most Misunderstood

Published September 12, 2022

Published by: The Atlantic
Published on: September 12, 2022
By Ed Yong

Brain fog isn’t like a hangover or depression. It’s a disorder of executive function that makes basic cognitive tasks absurdly hard.

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El camino largo: Cuando los síntomas de la COVID-19 no desaparecen.

Published August 1, 2022

Published by: NIH MedlinePlus Revista
Published on: August 1, 2022

Although most people who have COVID-19 recover within a few weeks, some struggle with heart symptoms and problems such as brain fog, fatigue, headaches, dizziness, and difficulty breathing, even months after the initial infection goes away.

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