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Heart-disease risk soars after COVID — even with a mild case

Massive study shows a long-term, substantial rise in risk of cardiovascular disease, including heart attack and stroke, after a SARS-CoV-2 infection.
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What’s more, the risk was elevated even for those who were under 65 years of age and lacked risk factors, such as obesity or diabetes.
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“It doesn’t matter if you are young or old, it doesn’t matter if you smoked, or you didn’t,” says study co-author Ziyad Al-Aly at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, and the chief of research and development for the Veterans Affairs (VA) St. Louis Health Care System. “The risk was there.”
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I am actually surprised by these findings that cardiovascular complications of COVID can last so long,” Hossein Ardehali, a cardiologist at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois, wrote in an e-mail to Nature. Because severe disease increased the risk of complications much more than mild disease, Ardehali wrote, “it is important that those who are not vaccinated get their vaccine immediately”.
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Backed By Science: Here’s How We Can Eliminate COVID-19 - Health Policy Watch

As the WHO Executive Board resumes talks this week on a much-discussed Pandemic Accord, and other preparedness measures, three noted infectious disease
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COVID-19 cannot be eradicated, but we can stop sustained community transmission. This status is known as “elimination”. In this situation outbreaks may still occur, but they do not become overwhelming. We have achieved this with measles. We have no chance of even making progress toward this goal with COVID-19 without concerted and globally coordinated action. That action needs to achieve a low rate of transmission (Reff < 1) simultaneously across the world.
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We may not even have all the right tools just yet although some are on the way. Easy to administer tools (such as nasal sprays) as well as transmission blocking vaccines which are on the horizon and pan-coronavirus vaccines that are active against current and future variants and are currently in pre-clinical evaluation would greatly improve the feasibility of progress towards elimination. Many minds and skillsets will need to come together to consider the biology, epidemiology and technological solutions.
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The Medical Board of Australia directive, which is published on the AHPRA website, is based on anonymous claims that Berger violated the Medical Board of Australia’s “code of conduct” on social media and behaved “unprofessionally” towards colleagues.

Berger has been falsely accused by internet trolls, right-wing commentators and others of undermining public health messaging about COVID-19 on social media because he has exposed government lies and corporate media falsehoods about COVID-19. It is believed that AHPRA has recently issued similar disciplinary measures against other medical practitioners.

The compulsory “program of education” must be approved by the Medical Board of Australia and AHPRA, paid for by Berger, and completed within six months. It is to be accompanied by reports to AHPRA by senior medical officials where he has worked during this period.

The ominous disciplinary process requires Berger to produce a “reflective practice report [emphasis added], in relation to behaving professionally and courteously to colleagues and other practitioners, including when using social media, in accordance with Good medical practice: a code of conduct for doctors in Australia.”

The “report” must show that “the Practitioner [Berger] has reflected on the issues that gave rise to this condition [of not behaving professionally and courteously to colleagues and other practitioners]… and how the Practitioner has incorporated the lessons learnt in the education into the Practitioner’s practice.”

The allegations against Berger are flat out lies and have nothing to do with “unprofessional” or “discourteous” behaviour. Their purpose is to intimidate or gag Berger and other registered medical practitioners and stop them speaking out about those responsible for the health catastrophe engulfing the country, and the profit-driven motivations that have produced this disaster.

The timing of AHPRA’s repressive actions against Berger is no accident. The measures were activated as coronavirus infections and deaths in Australia climbed to record levels.

The country’s per capita infection rate is currently among the highest in the world at over 30,000 cases per day, taking the total death toll to just over 10,000 deaths, three-quarters of them this year. Hospital and ambulance services are at total breaking point.

What is crystal clear to doctors and medical scientists, health workers and broad layers of the population is that the health catastrophe ripping through Australia is a direct result of the “let it rip” policies adopted in December and the systematic and ongoing removal of basic COVID-19 safety procedures.
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The new Albanese Labor government and all the state and territory governments who have made clear there will be no lockdowns, are dismantling the remaining rudimentary public health measures to stop the spread of the virus.
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Overseas travellers arriving in Australia will no longer need to be vaccinated against COVID-19 and mask-wearing mandates in airport terminals were scrapped last month across Australia. The Medical Board of Australia and AHPRA has said nothing about these murderous decisions, which will dramatically increase infection and death rates.
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It is not possible in this article to detail all of Berger’s scientifically based refutations of false claims by governments, senior health officials and right-wing media commentators. Among some of the claims by government and senior health authority were that “children did not get COVID-19,” the virus is “not airborne,” “schools are safe,” “vaccine only policies” would stop the coronavirus, the highly contagious Omicron was “mild,” and that the pandemic would become “endemic.” All of these were refuted and warned about by Berger, other principled epidemiologists
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Indie_SAGE had an episode on long Covid in kids, joined by guests Peter Hotez and Danilo Buonsenso:

 
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