Well-known, famous people with Covid-19 and Long Covid

Joe Rogan was tested positive and was fairly symptomatic. Got a bunch of meds (prednison, Ivermectin, monoclonal antibodies).

This didn't age well with previous statements of his (when you're young and healthy it's going to be mild) and he's very previleged to have access to these meds. Wish him the best of course.
 
That story about Martha Hancock seems to be resulting in a lot of media attention, even now, a number of months later. I wonder if it will have the effect of bringing useful attention to the reaction of spouses when someone gets Long Covid/ ME/CFS.
 
Canucks: Brandon Sutter experiencing long-haul COVID symptoms
https://theprovince.com/sports/hock...-sutter-experiencing-long-haul-covid-symptoms

It's honestly hard to describe just how much peak conditioning pro hockey demands. It demands all three of strength, endurance and resistance, at the same time, in bursts and in long shifts. They definitely do not skip leg day.

Sutter was among 25 Canucks players and coaches who contracted COVID in April in what was the largest outbreak in the NHL last season. Every player on the team’s opening-night roster has been vaccinated, it was confirmed on Monday.

“He was pretty down and out, feeling pretty sick,” his father Brent Sutter told Sportsnet.ca in April . “He’s got symptoms — body aches, headaches, chills — just like you have the flu. I guess each guy is different in terms of how it affects you … For younger people to get this sick, it’s scary.”

Sutter, who is said to be feeling fatigued since August , has missed all of training camp and the pre-season.

He signed a 1-year, $1.125-million contract with the Canucks this past off-season.​

But muh secondary benefits.
 
Only locally well-known people in this case but delta is seriously making the rounds here (we are at an all-time high of cases and recently we have been in the very top countries in terms of deaths per capita, sometimes occupying the number one spot).

So today, a famous rock singer has died of covid. Imagine that Mick Jagger has died of covid, he was basically the local equivalent (and also the same age). He was a big deal here, the Ministry of Human Resources is going to arrange and pay for his funeral out of respect. (Some Germans might have heard one of his band's songs as Scorpions covered it, also Kanye West sampled the same song.)
He was unvaccinated and trusted his immune system, he wasn't worried about covid.

Also a former Olympic gold medalist (in rings) has been put on a ventilator today, another really famous person here. He is 51, unvaccinated and he is actually a known covid denier, frequently posting really dumb covid conspiracy theories in social media.

I'm not sure if it's the same elsewhere but here you have to be extremely lucky to survive once on a ventilator. I'm not saying it never happens but your chances are really really low, it is practically a death sentence where a few people are lucky enough to cheat death.

Not a celebrity but another covid story that happened today: a guy I know who is in his 40s and in very good (above average) shape just shared it on FB that he had left the hospital after getting covid. I think he received oxygen but wasn't on a ventilator. He had two vaccines but back in March, so a long time ago.

So anyway, we are a small country and this is a lot of covid news for one day, things are really going downhill currently.

Edit: added wikipedia links to these people.
 
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I don't think this has been mentioned but, sadly, actress Dawn Wells of "Gilligan's Island" fame died of Covid-19 almost a year ago on 12/30/20. She was 82.

She had been living on her own, but came down with Covid-19 shortly after she moved into an assisted living facility.

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Billie Eilish.

"I didn't die, and I wasn't gonna die, but that does not take away from how miserable it was. It was terrible," Eilish said. "I still have side effects. I was sick for, like, two months almost."

The seven-time Grammy Award winner credited the vaccine as the reason she's now "fine," adding, "I think if I weren't vaccinated, I would have, like, died, because it was bad … When I say it was bad, I more just mean that it felt horrible. But really, in the scheme of COVID, it was not bad. You know what I mean? When you're sick, you feel f---ing horrible."
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From People magazine
 
Rowland Manthorpe, technology correspondent for Sky News. 8 months in to long COVID.

My main symptoms are fatigue and brain fog. Medically I’m in perfect health – none of the tests show anything – but I have *much* less energy. If I push myself too hard then I just collapse. It’s like someone has reached inside and turned me off. It's scary
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But I don’t want to sugarcoat it: this experience has been hellish, not just for me, but also for my partner, who has shouldered an enormous burden with the aforementioned two-year-old
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Interestingly Piers Morgan replied with the following unelaborated comment:

Piers Morgan on Twitter said:
DM me… I had same for 5 months but new meds seem to be cracking it.
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Piers Morgan has probably been trying lots of meds. The one he happened to be taking when he improved is now being given the credit. If the med really has "cracked it", I look forward to finding out what this cure for ME is and when the randomised controlled trials are to start.

Sorry if I'm doing Piers Morgan a great injustice here. I'm sure he wouldn't just say stuff.
 
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Also a former Olympic gold medalist (in rings) has been put on a ventilator today, another really famous person here. He is 51, unvaccinated and he is actually a known covid denier, frequently posting really dumb covid conspiracy theories in social media.

I'm not sure if it's the same elsewhere but here you have to be extremely lucky to survive once on a ventilator. I'm not saying it never happens but your chances are really really low, it is practically a death sentence where a few people are lucky enough to cheat death.
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Well, he has passed today. (After more than a month on the ventilator.)

As I said, unfortunately not many people come back from the ventilators here.
 
Mick Hucknall. Article in ... I'm sorry ... The Sun.

SIMPLY Red frontman Mick Hucknall has revealed he’s suffering from Long Covid.

The singer was forced to cancel several shows last month after he contracted the virus and says he’s still experiencing symptoms now, including a racing heart and sleepless nights.
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Mick 61, said: “I’ve got long Covid. I go to bed and wake up in the night with my heart going ‘ba-boom, ba-boom, ba-boom.’

“I just have to grab two or three hours sleep when I can.”

Heart palpitations and insomnia are two of the most common symptoms of Long Covid, which can last for weeks or months after the coronavirus infection has gone.
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But otherwise, the Holding Back The Years singer seemed in great health as he performed to a packed crowd at London’s O2 Arena on Wednesday night.
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