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Adults Air cleaners Air quality BA.2.75 BA.4 BA.5 Breathing protection Children Ffp2 KN95 Long Covid Masks N95 Omicron Protection Respiratory Schools The Virus Transmission Transmission and mitigation

How to improve air quality

Anyone read up on Covid and transmission/mitigation. knows that the SARS-Cov-2 virus likes to get airborne. 90%+ of transmission is airborne. This makes air quality important when it comes to protect people indoors.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/video/how-to-improve-indoor-air-quality/

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Adults Cardiovascular conditions Heart disease Long Covid Micro Clots Symptoms The Virus Treatment Vascular damage and desease

Long Covid & micro-clots?

Some research indicates that micro-clots have a big part in forming Long Covid.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02286-7

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Adults BA.2.75 BA.4 BA.5 Children DNA Genetics Omicron PCR tests Tests The Virus Transmission Transmission and mitigation

New strains not showing up in PCR-tests

Later variants have mutated enough to not show up on single gene PCR-tests. For testing to function satisfactory PCR-tests now need two gene detection.

https://www.news-medical.net/amp/news/20211115/Standard-PCR-tests-do-not-pick-up-new-Covid-strains-warns-expert.aspx

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Children Long Covid Masks Protection Schools Transmission Transmission and mitigation

BMJ on not protecting children

British Medical Journal shares the professional opinion on not protecting children in schools etc, and their judgement on the British lack of protection is harsh. UK has a similar approach as Sweden on protection in schools etc.

https://www.bmj.com/content/378/bmj-2022-071234?fbclid=IwAR1obndIjNF4Sxo6N8PQtQM10kee36N_F0PUfG3r8X-3Hb1Axyc_uZsxvIU

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Adults Children Long Covid Long Covid Test Tests

Blood test for Long Covid approved in Europe

Now medical staff can use a blood test to decide wether a patient has Long Covid or not. Accuracy 90%.

https://www.medscape.co.uk/viewarticle/long-covid-blood-test-receives-european-approval-2022a10022cg

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Adults Children mRNA Vaccines Protection Vaccines

Updated mRNA vaccines: same protection as original version

The updated vaccines from Pfizer – Biotech and Moderna unfortunately doesn’t add any additional real world benefits over original versions.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02806-5

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Adults Cardiovascular conditions Children Heart disease Symptoms

The links on Covid and heart + vascular disease

Here are links to a pretty much all knowledge on heart and vascular problems developed from Covid infection. New links will be added as new knowledge is presented.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/even-mild-covid-can-increase-the-risk-of-heart-problems/

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2789793

https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2022/covid-and-the-heart-it-spares-no-one

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00403-0

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/03/05/1084413347/for-some-patients-cardiovascular-problems-persist-long-after-covid

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/23011-covid-heart-damage

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02074-3

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-01689-3

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/04/24/strokes-coronavirus-young-patients/

https://www.health.harvard.edu/heart-health/covid-19-diagnosis-raises-risk-of-heart-attack-stroke

https://healthcare.utah.edu/healthfeed/postings/2022/01/covid19-increasing-stroke-risks.php

https://www.ft.com/content/26e0731f-15c4-4f5a-b2dc-fd8591a02aec

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/06/200604095600.htm

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/06/200604095600.htm

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DNA Genetics Protection Symptoms The Virus Transmission

How your DNA might affect how ill Covid makes you

As often, what your parents gave you in terms of DNA can affect how your life turns out. In this case it is how ill you get from a Covid infection.

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Breathing protection Ffp2 KN95 Masks N95 Transmission

The “magic” of N95 & Ffp2 masks

Some people doesn’t believe in masks. Maybe because they don’t understand how they work. This article explains this pretty well.

https://www.wired.com/story/the-physics-of-the-n95-face-mask/

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Children Respiratory Symptoms

New Symptoms In Kids

New worrying symptoms have been discovered in kids in Hong Kong. It seems to be linked to BA.5 variant, or at least Omicron.

https://telanganatoday.com/new-symptoms-found-in-covid-infected-children?utm_source=referral&utm_medium=FB&utm_campaign=social_share&fbclid=IwAR3khJnd8FWrHsIaIdS9na3AmH-nTo2njkp4KSG00VctkpDLOBIgZz_Muno