"Researchers find fewer than third of patients show much improvement 12 months after discharge"
"Fewer than one in three patients who have ongoing Covid symptoms after being hospitalised with the disease say they feel fully recovered a year later
"As the pandemic has unfolded, a growing body of research has revealed that Covid not only causes health problems in the short-term, but also has long-term effects.
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"Little or no improvement was seen for areas including organ function, physical function and cognitive impairment – or “brain fog” – with about one in 10 participants having a significant degree of the latter 12 months after discharge.
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"Over the summer, corporate executives across a range of U.S. industries scrapped their plans to bring workers back to offices in the fall.... Now a growing number of companies are again pushing pause as January approaches and COVID-19 infections surge.
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"This week, technology companies, banking institutions, ride-sharing corporations and plenty of enterprises in between announced they will yet again delay the elusive return to office. Corporations that already have butts in seats are sending workers home.
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"The study found the higher risk of death holds true even for people younger than 65. Their mortality rate increased by 233% compared to people under 65 who had never tested positive for COVID-19, the researchers found.
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“This study provides evidence that the increased risk of death from COVID-19 is not limited to the initial episode of COVID-19, but a severe episode of COVID-19 carries with it a substantially increased risk of death in the following 12 months,” the researchers wrote.
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"You probably thought that I was finishing up. Or took a long vacation to drink mojitos. No such luck. Last year, when I invited you, my good hosts, to meet my blessed variants, I smiled broadly at your puzzlement and shock.
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"So here I am again. Your favorite evolutionary anarchist. Changed, and ever changing.
"And now a “variant of concern” with your new Transformer toy-like name Omicron, with, count them, 50 mutations and possibilities you cannot yet fathom.
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"The 40 Tokyo residents identified as having close contact are being required to quarantine at facilities designated by the the capital's metropolitan government instead of their homes to ensure anti-virus measures, Governor Yuriko Koike told reporters.
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"Matsuno said the government will maintain strict border controls and will step up its capacity to conduct genome analyses of the new variant.
"Japan announced on Monday that it will ban all foreign visitors beginning Tuesday as an emergency precaution against the variant,..
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