COVID May Cause Deadly Type 1 Diabetes

By NCD on Mon, 10/19/2020 - 5:09pm |

Mario Buelna, a healthy 28-year-old father, caught a fever and started having trouble breathing in June. He soon tested positive for COVID-19. Weeks later, after what had seemed like a recovery, he felt weak and started vomiting. At 3 a.m. on Aug. 1, he passed out on the floor of his home in Mesa, Arizona. ... diagnosis – type 1 diabetes – stunned and frightened him. He had no history of the disease. .. “COVID could be causing diabetes from scratch,” said Dr. Francesco Rubino, a diabetes researcher and chair of metabolic and bariatric surgery at King’s College London. ...

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‘Brain fog’ is the latest COVID-19 symptom doctors are worried about https://t.co/gy6IsdRCKZ via @DeseretNews
— Herb Scribner (@HerbScribner) October 20, 2020

by artappraiser on Tue, 10/20/2020 - 4:51am

The smoking thing again-found retweeted today by epidemiologist Prof. Balloux Dir. of U College London Genetics Institute (even tho his home page says he's taking a break)

New meta-analysis of 18 studies finds that smokers are *82% less likely* to be hospitalised with COVID-19 than nonsmokers. https://t.co/aKLh9iZszw
— Christopher Snowdon (@cjsnowdon) October 19, 2020

by artappraiser on Tue, 10/20/2020 - 5:56pm

Active smokers may be smoking ouside, alone more, less exposure time indoors....? If it's the smoke, then second hand smoke, family members, should also be positively affected? Tobacco companies offering research funding?

by NCD on Tue, 10/20/2020 - 6:17pm

Nicotine is a pesticide.

by EmmaZahn on Tue, 10/20/2020 - 8:10pm

“We just don’t know what’s happening in our bodies”: Covid-19 long-haulers are still suffering

The terrible uncertainty of symptoms that persist for months and months.

By Lois Parshley Oct 20 @ Vox.com

[....] With 8 million cases of Covid-19 now confirmed in the US, stories like Montano’s are becoming increasingly common. But you might not know it from listening to President Trump. In his first extended statement in October since his own diagnosis, he falsely implied that everyone infected with the coronavirus can expect a rapid and full recovery. “Now what happens is you get better,” he said. “That’s what happens, you get better.”

For many diagnosed with Covid-19, nothing could be further from the truth. Preliminary research suggests at least 10 percent of people — and possibly many more — may continue to have symptoms for at least two months after infection.

“When Trump says ‘don’t be afraid of it’ — I’ve been so angry in the last week, I’m just trying to calm down,” says Kate Meredith of Beverly, Massachusetts, who has been experiencing Covid-19 symptoms since mid-March. [....]

by artappraiser on Tue, 10/20/2020 - 9:38pm

Two studies report substantial improvements in survival rates for hospitalised #COVID19 patients between April and June in the UK and the US.https://t.co/efR3SQdhE9
— Prof Francois Balloux (@BallouxFrancois) October 21, 2020

by artappraiser on Tue, 10/20/2020 - 10:43pm

This is my first byline in two years. I'm so thrilled to finally be well enough to do some writing again. @brianvastag, @jenbrea and I offer advice to covid long-haulers (and their drs and researchers) based on our experience with ME: https://t.co/xQe2bynLyE
— Julie Rehmeyer (@julierehmeyer) October 24, 2020

by artappraiser on Sat, 10/24/2020 - 4:21pm

^ WaPo has made this article FREE ACCESS TO ALL.

Going to add this paragraph excerpt for keyword search capability

We see this in patients with an array of unrelated pathogens: 90 percent of those with Ebola; 11 percent of those with Ross River virus, Q fever or Epstein-Barr virus; and 40 percent of those with severe acute respiratory syndrome (which, like covid-19, is caused by a coronavirus). Why, then, would covid-19 not be the same?

Doctor: ‘Long-haul’ covid-19 complications are real. I faced similar problems after surviving Ebola.

by artappraiser on Sat, 10/24/2020 - 4:26pm

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