When your Covid symptoms won't take a break, you might just be a 'long hauler'

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⇒ Issue #110 (In numerology, 110 implies a useful outlet for your creativity and talents.)
⇒ Confirmed Covid cases in Canada as of 09/17: 141,852*

⇒ Confirmed Covid fatalities in Canada as of 09/17: 9,244*

⇒ Worldwide Covid cases as of 09/17: 29,897,412*
⇒ Worldwide Covid fatalities as of 09/17: 941,363*

September 17, 2020—Welcome to the Thursday edition of the Daily CurveFlattener; it's assistant editor, Kylie Rebernik here, reporting to you from Oakville Ont.

A recent study out of the U.K. has reported that patients diagnosed with Covid-19 have the potential to become what is being described as "long haulers.".According to a Global News report, the term refers to a patient who has recovered from Covid-19 but is experiencing chronic Covid-19 symptoms months after being diagnosed. There is a caveat in the study. As Dr. Gerald Evans, chair of infectious diseases division at Queen's University explains, "The [U.K.] study points out that these people were reporting subjective symptoms. In other words, I ask you how you feel, you tell me how you feel." 

The study in the U.K. is not the only research to have looked at chronic or persistent Covid-19 symptoms after a positive diagnosis. In July, a study was published in JAMA  that found that in 87.4 per cent of patients who have recovered from Covid-19 reported the persistence of at least one symptom. 

COVID CHRONICLE 09/17/2020

• A new clinical trial will investigate an "antiviral antibody cocktail"  specifically designed to fight Covid-19. The Phase III trial, called the RECOVERY trial, is looking to include 2000 random patients. Researchers are working out of Oxford University. 

• Young, healthy Canadians are spreading Covid-19 in Ontario, according to health experts. It is not just party-goers who are affected. An article on the CBC web site highlights how a wedding event in Markham, Ont., led to 20 new cases of Covid-19 and how a 10-person cottage gettogether resulted in 40 new cases. 
• According to a new study published in JAMA (Sept. 16, 2020), people who wear eyeglasses daily are less likely to contract Covid-19. The study included 276 patients who were hospitalized for Covid-19 in Suizhou, China, of these 276 patients investigators found that only 5.8 per cent wore glasses.

WHAT CHRONICLE IS WORKING ON TODAY

I am working on the upcoming virtual Skin Spectrum Summit and we are please to announce that this Group Learning program has been reviewed by the College of Family Physicians of Canada and is awaiting final certification by the College’s Ontario Chapter.

RIGHT NOW WE ARE WATCHING...

Escapist television. I am in the middle of an "NCIS: Los Angeles" marathon. I added a CBS All Access subscription to my Apple TV package and plan to watch the reboot of "Hawaii 5.0" next. 

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