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2020-08-12 01531-tod-032724 Russian Sage

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New studies estimate long-COVID rates, identify risk factors | CIDRAP

New survey data from the landmark Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) reveal that 34% of postmenopausal women infected with COVID-19 had symptoms lasting at least 8 weeks, while a separate 2-year telemedicine study shows that 84% and 61% of all infected patients still had symptoms 1 and 2 years later, respectively.

Fatigue, malaise, brain fog common

For the WHI study, a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center–led research team surveyed 37,280 women aged 50 to 79 years at 40 US clinical centers about long-COVID symptoms and their duration from August to December 2021. They used machine learning and logistic regression models to gauge the strength of symptoms’ association with long COVID. The results were published today in the Annals of Epidemiology.

“Long-term health, psychosocial and demographic data are needed to fully understand long COVID risk factors in the elderly and to design and implement effective prevention,” the study authors wrote.

Of 37,280 survey respondents, 3.3% reported testing positive for COVID-19 (average age, 84 years), and 34% said they still had neurologic, cardiopulmonary, musculoskeletal symptoms, as well as fatigue and malaise. Nearly all respondents (91%) were White, and no differences between race and long-COVID status were observed.

Source: New studies estimate long-COVID rates, identify risk factors | CIDRAP

Songs I Like (55) | beetleypete

Joe Jackson is a classically-trained English musician who writes his own songs, but he would be the first to say that his looks somewhat stalled his career once video became so important. Not a conventional-looking ‘pop star’, he had to make a career from music and songs alone, for those that appreciated his talent. He rarely had any huge hits, and some of his albums failed to chart.

He later changed styles, embracing Swing and Jazz on some recordings, followed by a move to New York City in 1984. Now 70 years old, he currently resides in Berlin, Germany, working on various projects including symphonies and film soundtracks.

Source: Songs I Like (55) | beetleypete

Project 2025 mainly led by ex-Trump officials, leaked videos reveal | Project 2025 | The Guardian

Newly leaked training videos confirm how the staffing initiative of Project 2025, the controversial rightwing plan for the next Republican presidency, is gearing up for a major effort to replace non-partisan civil servants with conservative loyalists, and is being led by many former Trump administration officials.

The videos, created for Project 2025’s Presidential Administration Academy and published over the weekend by ProPublica and Documented, expose part of the Heritage Foundation thinktank’s plan to recruit and train political appointees on behalf of a future conservative administration.

A major aim of Project 2025 – running alongside its controversial policy proposals – is to replace thousands of government employees, most of whom work in career positions for administrations on both sides of the political aisle, with partisan Republican loyalists.

Source: Project 2025 mainly led by ex-Trump officials, leaked videos reveal | Project 2025 | The Guardian

दोस्त / Friends  – Kaushal Kishore

 

खुशी होती है हमें जब नए दोस्त आते हैं,

जबकि पुराने धीरे-धीरे गायब हो जाते हैं…

लेकिन जब नए दोस्त दर्द देने लगते हैं,  

तो हमें फिर पुराने दोस्त ही याद आते हैं…

🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂

When new friends come, bring us cheer,  

While the old ones gradually disappear…

But when the new ones start causing pain,  

It’s the old friends we remember again…

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–Kaushal Kishore  

Source: दोस्त / Friends  – Kaushal Kishore