The SARS-Cov-2 virus causes respiratory symptoms that range from unnoticeable to fatal. After the virus
is cleared from a person’s system and is undetectable in a nasal swab test, there are continuing symptoms of fatigue and weakness. That’s bad enough, but it is not the worst possible outcome. Damage to the heart could be a much more serious long-term problem. Continue reading
Covid-19 first arose in Wuhan, China when it jumped from an animal carrier to the first human subject. It was highly infectious and humans, encountering it for the first time, had no immunity against it. Many of the people carrying the infection had no symptoms of disease, causing it to spread silently to large groups of people, who ultimately, thanks to frequent worldwide air travel, spread the disease around the world. Continue reading
If you have been around older people, perhaps your parents or grandparents, you may have noticed that as they got older, it took them a little longer to dredge up the precise word they needed to express a thought, or to remember the name of a person, a place, or perhaps the title of a book that they wanted to recommend to you. Even in the absence of any of the recognized dementias, older people gradually lose some of the cognitive ability that they had at younger ages. Continue reading
The governments of most of the world’s countries, as well as the World Health Organization (WHO) have given people advice on how to avoid infection by Covid-19. These measures include:
Covid-19 is not the only pandemic ravaging the world’s population right now. Diabetes is another one—one that we have been dealing with for a long time. There seems to be a connection between the two, and that connection may be deeper than is currently thought. Continue reading