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.
Author: Peter Lindberg
Peter Lindberg is a commercial photographer & videographer, once educated to become an electronics engineer. Always been a science buff and interested in medicine and technology. Main hobbies are cars/racing and music. Lives in the western Sweden countryside farmland locally called "Schlätta".
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.
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
The updated vaccines from Pfizer – Biotech and Moderna unfortunately doesn’t add any additional real world benefits over original versions.
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://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
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.
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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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.
As the SARS-Cov-2 virus is capable to cross the blood/brain barrier it is easy to understand that the virus will also affect the brain. So what does it do? We don’t know all about that yet, but enough to understand that it is serious. Also; how do we treat it?
Covid infection increases the risks for many illnesses. Among those heart and circulatory disease.