The 11 COVID symptoms you need to know as Pirola (BA.2.86) strain sweeps through UK.
🔹 Continuous cough
🔹 High temperature, fever or chills
🔹Loss of, or change in, your normal sense of taste or smell
🔹 Shortness of breath
🔹 Unexplained tiredness, lack of energy
🔹 Muscle aches or pains that are not due to exercise
🔹 Not wanting to eat or not feeling hungry
🔹 Headache that's unusual or longer lasting than usual
🔹 Sore throat, stuffy or runny nose
🔹 Diarrhoea
🔹 Feeling sick or being sick
#COVID19 #Pirola #BA286 @9154863e
Source: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/health/11-covid-symptoms-you-need-31111136
Research may explain why men are more likely to experience severe cases of COVID-19.
"Results paint a clearer picture of how the extra copy of the ACE2 gene and higher estrogen levels in females work together to protect them from experiencing more severe COVID-19."
#COVID19 @9154863e
Source: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-10-men-severe-cases-covid-.html
Hundreds Test Positive for COVID at Disney World Resort.
"Guests are flocking to social media to warn others to ensure proper safety measures are practiced if they plan to visit the parks anytime soon."
"The Most Magical Place on Earth" 🤦♂️
#COVID19 #DisneyWorldResort @9154863e
Source: https://insidethemagic.net/2023/09/disney-world-covid-guests-positive-emd1/
New study will examine irritable bowel syndrome as long COVID symptom.
Researchers will use a $3.2 million grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases to study gastrointestinal symptoms as a condition of long COVID.
#COVID19 #LongCOVID #IBS @9154863e
Source: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1003337
COVID and Heart Problems - Doctors Explain Who's Most at Risk.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as many as 41% of people who get sick from the virus end up with long COVID, which can include respiratory, neurological, cardiovascular, and other symptoms that persist for weeks, months, and years.
Research shows that people who have more severe cases of COVID are at an increased risk for heart problems. But, doctors say anyone who’s had a COVID infection is at risk for a heart issue.
#COVID19 #Heart #cardiovascular @9154863e
Source: https://www.menshealth.com/health/a45324136/covid-heart-health/
🇨🇦 Canada: 'COVID was never gone': As cases rise in B.C., so do worries about normalizing the coronavirus.
"I think many had hoped that this was it for COVID," said Dr. Brian Conway, an infectious diseases specialist and medical director of the Vancouver Infectious Diseases Centre.
"And probably we didn't make it clear enough that COVID was never gone and none of us who work in the field had an expectation that COVID would be gone. So, it's here, it never left."
#COVID19 #Canada #COVIDisNotOver @9154863e
Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/covid-surge-normalizing-virus-1.6977974?cmp=rss
Here’s how much coronavirus people infected with COVID-19 may exhale
"Based on the new data, the team estimates that a high shedder could potentially exhale enough virus to infect someone in a closed space in about 20 seconds, making even elevator rides risky. With an average shedder, infection could take a little under 4 minutes."
#COVID19 #COVIDisAirborne @9154863e
Source: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/coronavirus-infected-covid-19-exhale
Petrified Adele makes huge change to Vegas shows: 'I'm hanging on for dear f**king life'
"The award-winning singer, 35, became worried when her friends and crew started "dropping like flies". She has now decided to ditch mingling with her fans over her fears of catching coronavirus."
#COVID19 #Adele @9154863e
Source: https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/petrified-adele-makes-huge-change-30948899
🇯🇵 Japan: Experts warn of simultaneous COVID and flu outbreak.
"Experts warned that simultaneous outbreaks of COVID-19 and influenza are occurring in Tokyo schools, disrupting many schools and forcing classes to be canceled."
#COVID19 #Japan #Tokyo @9154863e
Source: https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15006357
The Deadliest Events in US History:
1. COVID-19: 1,000,000+ plus
2. The US Civil War: 750,000
3. HIV/AIDS: 700,000
4. 1918 Flu: 675,000
5. WWII: 405,400
"It's mild - learn to live with it" what a joke!
#COVIDisNotOver #COVIDisAirborne #COVIDisNotFlu @9154863e
Source: https://www.history.com/news/deadliest-events-united-states
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