ScienceNews: Long COVID finally gets a universal definition. The new description includes more than 200 symptoms and doesn’t put limits on when they start.

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Fortune: «COVID can seriously damage your vision, even if you didn’t have symptoms. SARS-CoV-2 does so by breaching the blood-retinal barrier, layers of cells that shield the retina, the part of your eye that senses light, from microbial pathogens.» 👇
 
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The Conversation: 'People with diabetes were about twice as likely to get seriously sick with COVID than people without diabetes. Evidence also showed that people with diabetes were more likely to die from COVID than people without diabetes.'👇
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NY Times: 'One of the U.S. premier medical advisory organizations has weighed in on #longCOVID with a 265-page report that recognizes the seriousness and persistence of the condition for millions of Americans.'👇
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RNZ: 'New Zealand is experiencing its highest peak in COVID cases since Dec 2022. Last week, the country's health ministry reported 6146 new cases of the virus and 19 further deaths.' 👇
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NY Times: 'As new variants of the coronavirus continue to gain traction, doctors and researchers are bracing for a potential rise in cases this summer. KP.2, one of these variants, now accounts for 28.5 percent of cases.'👇
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NPR: “As much as we would all love to ignore COVID, a new set of variants that scientists call “FLiRT” is here to remind us that the virus is still with us.”👇
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Fortune: 'Three years after their initial bouts with COVID, patients who’d once been hospitalized with the virus remained at “significantly elevated” risk of death, according to a paper published in Nature.' 👇
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The Boston Globe: “COVID isn’t done with us yet. Wastewater surveillance is showing signs that COVID infections are creeping up again. And recent analysis suggests that rise may be driven in part by a new type of variant called “FLiRT.”👇
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WP: 'By now, it’s as familiar as sunscreen hitting the shelves: Americans are headed into another summer with new coronavirus variants and a likely uptick in cases.' 👇
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LA Times: “California may be headed to an earlier-than-normal start to the summer COVID season, with coronavirus concentrations in sewage rising. The trend comes as the FLiRT family of coronavirus subvariants made significant gains nationally.”👇
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CNBC: “New strains of COVID are spreading globally, raising concerns among health professionals about a possible summer spike in cases, four-and-a-half years since the onset of the pandemic.”👇
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Daily Mirror: 'Rise in new COVID FLiRT variant around the world sparks fears of summer surge in cases. The coronavirus continues to mutate from its earlier strains with a rise in variants dubbed FLiRT by scientists in the US and Europe.'👇
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Forbes: 'KP.2 variant's dramatic rise signals that KP.2 has properties that promote viral transmission and has experts discussing whether another COVID surge is on the horizon.' 👇
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Deseret News: “COVID levels have been lower than usual, but a new set of variants could make summer unpredictable when it comes to the novel coronavirus.”👇
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FT: “New COVID variants are spreading around the world and stoking fears of a summer surge in cases in the US, in the latest sign of the infectious disease’s ability to mutate and potentially threaten collective immunity.”👇
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Bloomberg: “Singapore’s government is closely tracking a new wave of COVID infections in the island-nation after the estimated count of weekly cases nearly doubled in the week ended May 11.”👇
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The Seattle Times: “Just when it seemed that 4 years since the pandemic had been long enough to be rid of the COVID virus, a new variant ‘FLiRT’ has shown up just in time for summer. Now, some are considering whether masking up may be a safe option .”👇
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Bloomberg: “COVID remained a bigger killer than the flu last winter, despite hopes the pandemic virus would eventually blend into the background with other respiratory germs that cause seasonal epidemics, a US study showed.”👇
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Neuroscience News: “Researchers discovered that SARS-CoV-2 can penetrate the blood-retinal barrier, potentially causing long-term eye damage. The study found that the virus induces a hyperinflammatory response and cell death in the retina.”👇
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