People With Severe COVID-19 Have More Long-Term Effects, Study Finds : Coronavirus Updates : NPR
Six months later, those who’d had COVID-19 were found to be at higher risk of new onset heart disease, diabetes, mental health disorders including anxiety and depression, substance use disorders, kidney disease and other problems.
We show that beyond the first 30 days of illness, people with COVID-19 exhibit higher risk of death and health resource utilization.
High-dimensional characterization of post-acute sequalae of COVID-19 | Nature
We know a lot about Covid-19. Experts have many more questions
STAT was curious which questions topped scientists’ lists. So, we asked a bunch. More than two dozen virologists, epidemiologists, immunologists, and evolutionary biologists shared with us their top question.
I’m enjoying Peter Frampton’s new album, “Peter Frampton Forgets the Words” so much.🎶 Just a bunch of guitar rock covers, but it sounds like he’s having a good time.
Met with a few friends and did a socially distanced Shape Note sing outdoors next to a beautiful lake on a nice New England spring day. I’ve missed these sings.
New Rhiannon Giddens album! Wow! 🎶 <music.apple.com/us/album/…>
Really interesting article from Microsoft about Work in 2021, with tons of data and good charts
I just missed two days of closing my Exercise ring on my Apple Watch, after not missing a single day this year. It’s because of the COVID vaccine #2. I was down for the count and couldn’t manage even a walk around the block. Did a workout today, yay!
We use an application called Yellowdig for online discussion forums in my class 🏫. I really like it. It has a bit of an algorithm so that the most “interesting” posts are automatically at the top. It manages automated grading quite well. And it looks good.
Oops, I let myself get behind on course grading. 🏫 Trying to get entirely caught up today. May or may not make it. Let’s see, there was a new client, a snowstorm with power outage, and a COVID vaccine that put me in bed for a day.
Finished reading: An Age of License by Lucy Knisley 📚
Finished reading: Displacement by Lucy Knisley 📚
Currently reading: 50 Degrees Below by Kim Stanley Robinson 📚
Second COVID shot has me in bed for the day — heart racing whenever I get up — but I’m confident it will be over by tomorrow. I feel lucky to have access to the vaccine.
April in New Hampshire
Finished reading: The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel 📚
I just taught a 3-hour face-to-face class (with good social distancing). The first one I’ve done since November. I am utterly exhausted. It’s interesting to note this reaction. These days, teaching on Zoom doesn’t wear me out. I’ll have to work on being w/humans again.
Copy Google Doc. Rename. Sharing – Anyone with the link can Edit. Copy Link. Paste in Bit.Ly and give it a friendly name. Repeat 6 more times for the 7 Breakout groups in tonight’s webinar. Repeat for each breakout in each webinar. I wonder if I can automate this?
Currently reading: Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon 📚
I’ve realized that I can’t consider that I have completed my Daily Shutdown — MacSparky routine if I don’t actually use my paper notebook and write down the big goals for the next day. It’s not enough to look at my online project management system and calendar. If I don’t write it down, then when I come into the office, I’m confused and murky about what to do.
Finished reading: The Danzig Trilogy: The Tin Drum, Cat and Mouse, Dog Years by Gunter Grass 📚Started reading it in February, finished in April. I could only handle 10-20 pages at a time of these 1000 pages. But absolutely worth reading.
Currently reading: The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel 📚
Finished reading: Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell 📚Well-written but traumatic to read: child abuse, unfaithful marriage, people unable to speak to each other. I was tense the whole time I was reading it.
Covid-19 hyperinflammation and post-Covid-19 illness may be rooted in mast cell activation syndrome
Another mystery about the Covid-19 pandemic is why the infection is mildly symptomatic or even asymptomatic in the majority of those who are infected but is severely symptomatic, often life-threatening, in a sizeable minority. In other words, what causes the immune system to so catastrophically suddenly overreact in certain Covid-19 patients while remaining properly regulated in the majority?
Gabe Weatherhead has the best “I’ve just revived a dead blog” post ever:
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