COVID-19

Links

Current Stats by Location

• COVIDcast Dashboard (Delphi Group at Carnegie Mellon University)
• CDC:
  • COVID-19 Integrated County View: Community Levels - tends to present a somewhat rosy view of the situation
  • COVID-19 Integrated County View: Community Transmission - used by healthcare workers to get a more realistic view
• Location-specific sites:
  • US/NC:
    • COVID-19 Wastewater Monitoring Dashboard

Articles

• 2022-09-13 Chicago Magazine The Long Haul: studying Long COVID
• 2022-09 The Atlantic: What Makes Brain Fog So Unforgiving by Ed Yong

News

• 2022-09-30 COVID may have pushed a leading seasonal flu strain to extinction
• 2022-07-18 Why the Omicron offshoot BA.5 is a big deal
• 2022-07-01 The Secrets of Covid 'Brain Fog' Are Starting to Lift (archive.ph)
• 2022-05-05 Omicron as severe as other COVID variants -large U.S. study
• 2022-04-25 Tracking the coronavirus around the U.S.: See how your state is doing
• US/NC:
  • 2022-09-01 As COVID outlook improves across North Carolina, Omicron-specific boosters expected to offer ‘critical’ protections

Science

• 2022-06-25 Mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic, impact of childhood trauma in psychiatric disorders, and predictable biomarkers for bipolar disorder (h/t)

Reference

• Wikipedia
• Issuepedia

News

• 2022/11/07 [L..T] What If COVID Reinfections Wear Down Our Immunity? «What could put the brakes on this ever-evolving virus, which can kill, damage organs and linger for months? [/] The answer from many scientists has been T cells – our bodies' line of immune defence after antibodies. T cells can spot and attack viruses and even remember previous invaders. As virologist Vincent Racaniello titled one of his articles: "T cells will save us from COVID-19." [/] But what if COVID wears down T cells in people who get it, and does so increasingly with each reinfection?»

Humor