Category: public health
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This was a large study of US veterans that found that the risk of having a heart attack, stroke or several other cardiovascular events was higher for those who had COVID-19 the year prior compared to those who weren’t infected.
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As we deal with the fourth wave of COVID-19 caused by the Omicron variant, we are learning that the pandemic dramatically disrupted routine health screenings for cancer and other chronic diseases.
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Harry developed his debilitating conditions shortly after his third shot and attributed his woes to the vaccine. That is a temporal correlation—the debilitation happened shortly after the vaccine. But, is there anything that proves the vaccine caused Harry’s debilitation?
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Surviving COVID-19 is one thing, recovering is another.
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There are two reasons why we vaccinate anyone. The first reason is to protect the vax recipient from the disease; this is an individual-level benefit of the vaccine. The second is to protect the larger population by trying to retard disease spread; this is a population-level benefit of vaccines that is better known as herd…
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About the only thing we can say with any certitude at this time is that long COVID exists but is not easy to describe. The only constant between different long COVID patients with different symptoms is that the conditions is a collection of varied symptoms that persist long after the acute disease subsides
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