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The author, Derick T Wade, is a consultant in neurological rehabilitation at Oxford University Hospitals and visiting professor at Oxford Brookes. He’s written books on stroke recovery, MS service provision/ managing chronic disability, measurement in neurological rehabilitation, and rehab of...

Moved from the Covid biology thread The Lancet has made one of the biggest retractions in modern history. How could this happen?

That’s interesting, what antibody test did you get? Abbott or Roche, maybe? Venous blood sample, or finger prick? Did you order online and mail in your blood sample? Long postage delays could affect viability of sample, perhaps. From the validation studies it appears these tests are >99%...

Amen to that. I'm definitely one with a background of chronic nasal symptoms and related medical history, preceding my ME/CFS. I had allergies and rhinitis from childhood and was prescribed nasal steroid spray and Fucidin cream (an antibiotic cream) from age 14 into my early 20s. I was...

To be clear, what I think would be ideal is a prospective study that starts tracking various health parameters (eg, immune function, various biomedical data points, 2-day CPET, psychological profile, medical history, Sars-Cov-2 status, etc.) in a large population of people before they contract...

New Scientist: What four coronaviruses from history can tell us about covid-19 The rest is behind a paywall...

Someone on the Zero Hedge financial blog, going by the name Tyler Durden, has collated a number of Reddit threads reporting ongoing long-term symptoms following Covid-19. https://www.zerohedge.com/health/young-covid-positive-redditors-describe-agony-symptoms-lasting-nearly-two-months-after

Yes, I've noticed the low recovery figures in some of the reporting generally, not just UK, and wondered how this is defined and measured. It seems to be a very low proportion of cases that are reported as 'recovered'.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/05/severe-covid-19-illness-in-young-down-to-genes-or-viral-load-scientists-say?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other When I read this I just thought about the Royal Free Hospital ME epidemic, and wondered if the high number of medical staff falling sick and many of...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/27/vital-drug-people-lupus-coronavirus-covid-19-link-hydroxychloroquine?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

So, I suppose the thinking is that, if you don't meet these criteria, you're not vulnerable to Covid-19 itself. That seems a bit of a limited way of thinking about it - what about people vulnerable to the effects of the lockdown regime?

By the way, just want to add that hydroxychloroquine is a significantly less toxic drug than chloroquine, and so would seem to be a better treatment prospect, assuming comparable efficacy.

Hope he feels better soon.

Hi, Hip. Thanks for your clear explanation, as always. I've just done this calculation myself using today's data (25th March), and notice that the interval for deaths to double from 233 (on the 22nd) to 465 (on 25th) was 3 days. So inputting that data I get a figure of 2,362,052 people...

He talks fast, I bet he does everything fast. He reminds me of 'Mr Wolfe' out of Pulp Fiction!

Did he say ‘hydroxyquinoline’? Did he mean ‘hydroxychloroquin’? Sleep deprived?

Hi Sarah. I don't have any evidence for that statement it was just a feeling. I don't know the first thing about Ross River virus so let's exclude that, but with EBV and Q-fever, these are well know to cause prolonged post-infectious fatigue, and in my mind I was hoping the health outcomes of...

Yes... I figure the greater the distance between me and the bat the better! But, in all seriousness, I’m not expecting to be able to avoid contracting Sars-Cov-2 for all that long (even with good infection control practices), as I always seem to get everything going round anyway.

Dr Mark Guthridge tweeted this study: Hickie et al, 2006 "Post-infective and chronic fatigue syndromes precipitated by viral and non-viral pathogens: prospective cohort study" The infections they studied were EBV, Q-fever and the mosquito born infection Ross River Virus, all of which, I...

Very interesting - optimistic, but difficult to scale up for the masses. However, I reckon certain individuals may already have got their personal supply of 'antiserum' locked down... More info in STAT News: How blood plasma from recovered patients could help treat the new coronavirus