Your 2024 Guide to Covid Symptoms and Treatment

[Muse]

This is in today's New York Times. This link will get you beyond the paywall for the next 14 days, i.e. until Mar. 23, 2024:

Your 2024 Guide to Covid Symptoms and Treatment

Rest, fluids and medications are your friends.

www.nytimes.com

The comments by readers are especially interesting. I suggest you order them by Reader Picks and don't ignore the replies to those.

 

[Muse]

Long covid is a major concern. Watch this and you'll have no doubts about that. This is deep, knowledgeable, and includes info on how you can act to minimize the chances of your suffering long covid. I highly recommend watching this in its entirety:

 

[pete6032]

We are at the point now where people are no longer testing when they feel sick. Had many conversations in the past two months where people told me they were out sick or had a cold and I asked if it was covid and they said they didn't know.

 

[Dr. Detroit]

CDC has new guidelines which were released on March 1: https://www.cdc.gov/ncird/whats-new/updated-respiratory-virus-guidance.html

New guideline bring COVID precautions in line with those of other respiratory viruses, like the common flu.

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[Pohemi]

Long covid is a major concern.

It's kind of amazing how it can affect any system or organ in the body.

I'd say this looks hopeful, but g'luck with it being widely-used or available.

Long-COVID defeated by psychedelics? Case study details unusual recovery

A 41-year-old woman with Long-COVID reportedly experienced significant symptom relief after using psilocybin and MDMA, but the effectiveness and safety of these psychedelics for Long-COVID remain uncertain and require further research.

www.psypost.org

 

[Muse]

It's kind of amazing how it can affect any system or organ in the body.

I'd say this looks hopeful, but g'luck with it being widely-used or available.

Long-COVID defeated by psychedelics? Case study details unusual recovery

A 41-year-old woman with Long-COVID reportedly experienced significant symptom relief after using psilocybin and MDMA, but the effectiveness and safety of these psychedelics for Long-COVID remain uncertain and require further research.

www.psypost.org

Long covid is even implicated in Alzheimer's. AFAIK, never "caught it," but inevitably I've taken in some somewhere some time. Have had all 8 vaccinations available. I went for a hike today, then into local indy supermarket and forgot to mask up. Saw a masked woman, pulled out and donned my 3M N95.

Treatment there, but searching on the name of the study, came up with these, closer to the bone:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ccr3.8791

Long-COVID Symptoms Improved after MDMA and Psilocybin Therapy: a case report

IntroductionCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a highly contagious respiratory illness caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The virus was first identified in Wuhan, China in December 2019 and has since spread

www.authorea.com

 

[Muse]

We are at the point now where people are no longer testing when they feel sick. Had many conversations in the past two months where people told me they were out sick or had a cold and I asked if it was covid and they said they didn't know.

I am adding covid-test-kit to my travel kit.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

Long covid is a major concern. Watch this and you'll have no doubts about that. This is deep, knowledgeable, and includes info on how you can act to minimize the chances of your suffering long covid. I highly recommend watching this in its entirety:

Long COVID is terrifying. One of my favorite youtubers, physics girl, got it, and has basically been bedridden for years. She was in her early 30s and looked pretty damn healthy to me too before getting it. Here's a fun pre-COVID video from her:

Whereas here is a recent post from her on eclipse day last month:

Dianna Cowern on Instagram: "(Levi typing) Dianna - "I know I need to be resting more...but...there's an eclipse!" We got to help Dianna see the eclipse today. Yes, she had to explain to us how to do it as we cut holes in paper and shined it on the

31K likes, 573 comments - thephysicsgirl on April 8, 2024: "(Levi typing) Dianna - "I know I need to be resting more...but...there's an eclipse!" We got to help Dianna see the eclipse today. Yes,...".

www.instagram.com

The alzheimers fears are real too. I find myself forgetting a lot of shit I wouldn't have 5 years ago and I wonder if it was from the time(s) I have had COVID.

 

[Torn Mind]

We are at the point now where people are no longer testing when they feel sick. Had many conversations in the past two months where people told me they were out sick or had a cold and I asked if it was covid and they said they didn't know.

They're lucky. COVID hits me in the nerves.