What is Covid?

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How does Covid19 spread?

Covid is airborne, mostly spread through aerosols.

“But We Were Outside” (Outdoor Transmission)

Yes, Covid does spread outdoors. Listen here to Dr. Theresa Chapple explain our (mis)understanding of the ability of Covid19 to transmit outdoors/people’s ability to evade the virus outdoors on The Death Panel.

Estimated Airborne Decay of SARS-CoV-2 | Homeland Security

Vanessa Campo-Ruiz, MD PhD on Twitter: "This video from RIKEN Japan shows why whenever we are indoors and in proximity to others, we should wear a #FFP2respiratormask or superior. We are still amidst a #COVID pandemic and the viral variants keep on infecting people& triggering #longcovid. 😷 pic.twitter.com/demgm3Jjeg / Twitter"

Case Undercounts

Professional estimates

Some people have been Walgreens positivity

Wastewater

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Reinfection

Each covid infection is cumulative. What that means is that every time you get sick

[Preprint study featured in Topol’s substack ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FfLLFqgUYAAis5G?format=jpg&name=medium)

Preprint study featured in Topol’s substack

Covid is a vascular disease

COVID infects the lining of your blood vessels. That's how it can damage any part of your body and why people have so many different types of complications” - LauraleeDukesh1 summarizing Nature study on endothelial damage

Graphic showing that infection with SARS-CoV-2 can cause injury to many parts of the body, including lungs, liver, kidneys, heart, reproductive tract, clots, artery damage by endothelial dysfunction.

Graphic showing that infection with SARS-CoV-2 can cause injury to many parts of the body, including lungs, liver, kidneys, heart, reproductive tract, clots, artery damage by endothelial dysfunction.

Long Covid

Long Covid - Practical Guide

Long Covid is a term coined by patients themselves to describe the lasting effects of covid in the months to years post acute infection. It is the most common adverse result from a Covid.

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Long Covid?

It’s helpful to note that a medically rare event is defined as a disease or condition that effects 1 in every 200,000 people.

1 in 5 Adults*

CDC data from June 22, 2022

25.24% Children

(meaning children have roughly equivalent rates of Long Covid as adults)

According to a meta-analysis in Nature

*1 in 10 is another, more conservative estimate from an article in Nature. Both 1 in 5 and 1 in 10 are used by credible organizations and researchers as an accepted estimate of prevalence.

‘NEW Practice Pointer and #BMJInfographic on treating patients with long covid in primary care’ from BMJ

‘NEW Practice Pointer and #BMJInfographic on treating patients with long covid in primary care’ from BMJ

What is Long Covid?

“The United Kingdom National Institute ofr Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has defined various sympatomatic phases of COVID-19. These include:

Acute COVID-19 which includes signs and symptoms up to 4 weeks following onset of illness

Ongoing symptomatic COVID-19 for signs and ysmptoms of Covid-19 from 4-12 weeks after the onset of illness

Post-COVID-19 syndrome for signs and symptoms that develop during or after an infection consistent with COVID-19, continue for > 12 weeks and are not explained by an alternative diagnosis

Long-COVID that includes both ongoing sympotmatic (from 4 to 12 weeks) and post-COVID-19 syndrome (12 weeks or more).”

UK NICE Covid categorizations taken from lit review of NLM article

Covid and the Brain

Covid’s Effect on the Brain

Covid and the Heart

Covid’s Effect on the Heart and Circulation