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  • Long Covid in Aotearoa NZ: Risk assessment and preventive action urgently needed

    … Commonly experienced symptoms such as fatigue and cognitive dysfunction have a high impact on quality of life. … healthcare workers, and prison workers. The frequency of (often undiagnosed) cognitive impairment after a mild infection …
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  • Long COVID: a crucial reason for vax, mask, and distance

    … organ damage on MRI 13 , abnormal brain metabolism 14 and cognitive impairment 15 , thrombo-embolism 16 , and questions about … diagnosis. It usually presents with clusters of symptoms, often overlapping, which can fluctuate and change over time …
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  • Longer-term harm from Covid-19 in children: The evidence suggests greater efforts are needed to protect children in Aotearoa NZ from infection

    … ; the most common features are fatigue, breathlessness, cognitive dysfunction, and loss of taste or smell, with … damage in children that may lead to long-term impairment include: Brain and nervous system: A wide spectrum … immune origin. It is a lifelong condition, and onset is often associated with a previous infectious disease episode. …
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  • Potential for an avian influenza pandemic: Time for NZ to ramp up preparedness

    … Summary Influenza A(H5N1) virus, a major cause of highly pathogenic avian … Vietnam. This fatality risk may be overestimated because mild and asymptomatic infections in humans are less likely to … systemic disease, particularly in gallinaceous poultry. 63 After virus replication occurs in the host cells, the …
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  • Update on Long-COVID

    … Long-COVID, captures perfectly the persistence of symptoms after the acute infection with SARS-CoV-2 has subsided, there … were: fatigue (77.7%) post-exertional malaise (72.2%), and cognitive dysfunction (including “brain fog”) (55.4%). These … reported symptoms. MRI scans revealed mild organ impairment in the heart (26%), lungs (11%), kidneys (4%), …
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  • How best to classify and count NZ’s border control failures in the COVID-19 pandemic?

    … In taking a systems approach to pandemic control, it is helpful to … quarantine (MIQ) facilities have worked particularly hard (often despite suboptimal conditions [4] [5]) and the issues … infected another person (potentially on a charter flight after leaving the facility) [26]. A household contact was …
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  • The case for denicotinising tobacco in Aotearoa NZ remains strong: response to online critique

    … This blog responds to a recent online critique of a study that modelled how key … of mandated denicotinisation led by NW was performed after publication of the discussion document. This work was … on quitting because participants motivated to quit are often excluded (as in the above example), study participants …
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  • The need for a robust scientific definition for the elimination of COVID-19 from New Zealand

    … at the country-level. In this blog we present the case for a scientific definition of elimination to help guide our … language, the words “elimination” and “eradication” are often used interchangeably, but a distinction is made in the … revoked. But the elimination status could then be regained after a period of time and on-going surveillance activities …
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  • Covid-19 vaccines still protect us: How do we get the best out of them?

    … Combining vaccination with other measures as part of a comprehensive prevention strategy for respiratory … Third Booster+ is defined as any booster dose received after a person's second booster. Benefits of vaccination are … the relevant pathogen is limited so subsequent disease is mild) or sterilising immunity (the pathogen is eliminated …
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  • Long COVID: Century-old Lessons We Still Have Not Learned

    … total mortality by perhaps 10-30%, but that the impact was often limited because interventions were introduced late and … bodily pains and/or symptoms of depression or anxiety; ii) cognitive problems such as forgetfulness or difficulty in … disturbance, loss of senses of smell and taste, vision impairment, palpitations, and hair loss. Because we do not …
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