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Posts tagged with 'covid-19'

Long COVID: major findings, mechanisms and recommendations

2nd February 2023

Sobering recent article - Long COVID: major findings, mechanisms and recommendations. Its abstract reads: "Long COVID is an often debilitating illness that occurs in at least 10% of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infections. More than 200 symptoms have been identified with impacts on multiple organ systems. At …

COVID-19 threat: a dozen useful coping skills

28th March 2020

"Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognised moral qualities of men" (and women) Confucius "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than one's fear" James Hollingworth 1.) Values: How we want to respond to a crisis, like the …

COVID-19: some useful websites

21st March 2020

"Everything you say in advance of a pandemic seems alarmist. Anything you've done after it starts is inadequate." Michael Leavitt (then US Health Secretary discussing H5N1 avian flu in 2007). "There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one …