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Coronavirus: Wuhan study finds nearly half of recovered patients still had symptoms a year later

• Twenty per cent continued to experience the most common symptoms of fatigue or muscle weakness after 12 months, researchers say

• They called for larger studies to understand the long-term consequences of the disease and for more support for survivors

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3146530/coronavirus-wuhan-study-finds-nearly-half-recovered-patients

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Researchers have identified the 3 stages of pandemic emotions

According to an analysis of tweets, the pandemic has thrown our emotions into a cycle of avoidance, fear, and acceptance.

In 1990 during the AIDS epidemic, psychologist Phillip Strong penned an essay on a new model for “Epidemic Psychology.” He outlined a descriptive framework of what he believed happened to the human psyche during mass disease spread. During the Black Plague and the AIDS crisis, he posited, there were concurrent psychosocial epidemics of fear, panic, suspicion, and stigma. The method of transmission for this collective distrust and uncertainty was communication itself. “The human possession of language means that the fear of such disease can be rapidly, even instantly transmitted (as through television) across millions of people and from one society to another,” he wrote.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90659372/pandemic-emotions-research-twitter/

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WHO renames COVID variants.

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UF expert: COVID-19 may become endemic

by Briana Nespral

Friday, February 19th 2021

GAINESVILLE, Fla. —

We have been living with COVID-19 for nearly a year, but now researchers are saying we may always be living with it.

Health officials are saying this pandemic could become endemic.

"This means essentially that that particular pathogen never really truly disappears from the population," said UF professor, Dr. Marco Salemi.

Dr. Salemi said that could be for a number of reasons, including because the virus has spread and infected so many people.

"There will always be a low level, sometimes a very low level of viral strains circulating the population, going from a person to another," said Salemi.

Dr. Salemi said this virus is similar to influenza, where we might constantly be seeing new mutations of the virus, like the current UK variant. But the predictability of when the virus will come up is still unknown.

https://mycbs4.com/news/local/uf-expert-covid-19-may-become-endemic/

4 reasons we’re seeing these worrying coronavirus variants now

Covid-19 is evolving. Why now?

• By Brian Resnick

• on January 27, 2021 12:10 pm

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/22247525/covid-19-variants-uk-south-africa-brazil-b117-why-now

COVID-19: Why Indonesia is vaccinating its working population first, not elderly

An armed police officer stands guard next to a truck containing Sinovac's vaccine for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) as it arrives at the cold room of Indonesia's local health department in Palembang

04 Jan 2021 04:46PM(Updated: 04 Jan 2021 04:48PM)

JAKARTA: As Indonesia prepares to begin mass inoculations against COVID-19, its plan to prioritise working age adults over the elderly, aiming to reach herd immunity fast and revive the economy, will be closely watched by other countries.

Several countries such as the United States and Britain that have already begun vaccinations are giving priority to elderly people who are more vulnerable to the respiratory disease.

The following are experts' views on merits and risks of the Indonesian approach, under which working age adults will be vaccinated after frontline health workers and public servants.

WHY 18-59 YEAR-OLDS FIRST?

Indonesia, which plans to begin mass inoculations with a vaccine developed by China's Sinovac Biotech, says it does not have enough data yet of the vaccine's efficacy on elderly people, as clinical trials underway in the country involves people aged 18 to 59.

"We're not bucking the trend," said Siti Nadia Tarmizi, a senior health ministry official, adding authorities would await recommendations from the country's drug regulators to decide on vaccination plans for the elderly.

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/covid-19-indonesia-vaccination-working-population-not-elderly-13890160

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Indonesia to Start Vaccinations on Jan. 13 With Jokowi First

Arys Aditya

January 5, 2021, 2:18 AM ESTUpdated on January 5, 2021, 3:10 AM EST

Jokowi and army representatives will be first to get the shots

Indonesia has received Covid-19 vaccine shipment from Sinovac

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-05/indonesia-s-jokowi-to-get-covid-19-vaccination-on-jan-13

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With limited surveillance of Covid-19 variant, it’s déjà vu all over again

By HELEN BRANSWELL @HelenBranswell

DECEMBER 31, 2020

As health officials in the United States announced a second and possibly a third person infected with a new, more transmissible strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, infectious diseases experts are feeling a sense of déjà vu all over again.

A little less than a year ago, the early response to the coronavirus crisis was stifled by an inability to scale up testing to detect the virus and curb its spread. Now, once again, it’s unclear how prevalent the new strain, which first surfaced in the U.K., might be in the U.S. Already a possible and a probable case have been detected in Colorado and one case has been reported in California. But it’s likely the variant’s spread hasn’t stopped there.

“It feels a lot like that time between Jan. 19 or so when we had that first case in the Seattle area and six weeks later, when all of a sudden, it looks like we’ve got community transmission in California and Seattle and who knows where else,” said Michael Worobey, a professor of evolutionary biology at the University of Arizona. “It does have that feeling.”

https://www.statnews.com/2020/12/31/with-limited-surveillance-of-covid-19-variant-its-deja-vu-all-over-again/

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