Symptoms post Covid recovery may impact daily life: Doctors
Sun, Apr 18 2021 07:09:23 PM
New Delhi, Apr 18 (IANS): Are you a Covid-19 survivor, but still feel fatigued and not having fully recovered? You may be experiencing what is known as Long Covid . The symptoms may not be life-threatening, but can persist for months and impact daily life, experts say.
While most patients who were affected with SARS-CoV the virus behind the deadly coronavirus and recovered, may do fine, but some are likely to face symptoms, including fatigue, shortness of breath, brain fog, sleep disorders, fevers, gastrointestinal symptoms, anxiety, and depression, according to the US National Institutes of Health.
Experimental antiviral drug effective against Covid: Study
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New York, April 18 : An experimental oral antiviral drug has shown potential in prevention and treatment of SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing Covid-19 infections, say researchers.
The antiviral MK-4482 significantly decreased levels of virus and disease damage in the lungs of hamsters treated for SARS-CoV-2 infection, according to a new study from the US National Institutes of Health scientists. MK-4482 is currently undergoing human clinical trials.
In the study, published in the journal Nature Communications, the scientists found MK-4482 treatment effective when provided up to 12 hours before or 12 hours after infecting the hamsters with SARS-CoV-2.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar joined
Dr. Kizzmekia S. Corbett for “A Conversation Between Legends,” and spoke about the importance of the COVID-19 vaccine.
The basketball legend and Dr. Corbett, the scientific lead of the Vaccine Research Center’s coronavirus team at the U.S. National Institutes of Health, explained why they are encouraging people of color to get vaccinated, according to a news release from the Ad Council and the COVID Collaborative.
“From the beginning, I saw that the virus was a major danger to communities of color,” he said during the special half-hour virtual event. “Being from the Black community, I wanted to make sure that we were made aware that the vaccine can go a long way to eliminating the threat that it poses in communities of color. That’s why I tried to spread the word as soon as I could do a PSA advocating that the vaccines are safe and effective. It’s a responsibility I have and part of the way I give back.”
The war on drugs in the United States has been a failure that has ruined lives, filled prisons and cost a fortune. It started during the Nixon administration with the idea that, because drugs are bad for people, they should be difficult to obtain. As a result, it became a war on supply.
As first lady during the crack epidemic, Nancy Reagan tried to change this approach in the 1980s. But her “Just Say No” campaign to reduce demand received limited support.
Over the objections of the supply-focused bureaucracy, she told a United Nations audience on Oct. 25, 1988: “If we cannot stem the American demand for drugs, then there will be little hope of preventing foreign drug producers from fulfilling that demand. We will not get anywhere if we place a heavier burden of action on foreign governments than on America’s own mayors, judges and legislators. You see, the cocaine cartel does not begin in Medellín, Colombia. It begins in the streets of New York, Miami, Los Angeles and ev