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Long COVID patients say doctors are ignoring their symptoms |
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Two years into the pandemic and long COVID is still an incredibly misunderstood and underresearched problem, leaving many patients feeling invalidated, ignored, and dismissed by the medical professionals they so desperately seek answers from. Sydney, 22, was told to "suck it up" by a nurse. A cardiologist told George, 37, that he was "imagining things" after rushing to the hospital two years after his initial infection with what he thought was a heart attack. Doctors told 38-year-old Andrea to "not think illness thoughts" when trying to exercise through her severe fatigue. Long COVID — when symptoms or new health conditions occur months or longer after the initial infection, even if it was mild — can happen in both adults and children. Symptoms can affect nearly any organ system, including the heart, lungs, kidneys, brain, eyes, or skin, and they can vary widely and include fatigue, headaches, insomnia, heart palpitations, brain fog, muscle pain, and more. It's estimated to affect up to 30% of the millions of people who've contracted the coronavirus. "It made me feel at times like I was losing my grip on reality or that I was going insane," Grant Hamel, a 33-year-old Ohio resident who's been experiencing long COVID symptoms since June 2020. "I would leave these appointments and sit in my car and cry because it felt hopeless that my symptoms would ever go away or that anyone would ever be able to help me." |
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STAYING ON TOP OF THIS Civilian evacuations in Mariupol begin |
- Civilians began evacuating the Mariupol steel plant on Sunday, after weeks of bombing and blockades by Russian troops. "I was so worried the bunker would cave in," Natalia Usmanova, 37, told the BBC. "We didn't see the sun for so long."
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that more than 100 civilians were expected to make it to the Ukrainian-controlled city of Zaporizhzhia. As many as 100,000 people may still be in Mariupol, the AP reports.
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Naomi Judd, the Grammy-winning country music star and the mother of Wynonna and Ashley Judd, has died at the age of 76. Her death was announced a day before the Judds — comprising of the mother-daughter duo Naomi and Wynonna — were to be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. How Netflix failed, then fired, staff it hired just months ago. Behind the story of Tudum's sudden collapse are bigger issues both within Netflix and the streaming industry more broadly.
Hope Solo announced she's entering rehab, weeks after she was arrested on suspicion of driving while impaired, resisting a public officer, and misdemeanor child abuse. Solo said she had asked the National Soccer Hall of Fame to postpone her induction to next year and that she was voluntarily entering an in-patient alcohol treatment program.
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ASSISTED ESCAPE OR KIDNAPPING A capital murder suspect and a corrections officer went missing after allegedly heading to a court appointment that didn't exist |
Lauderdale County Sheriff's Office via AP, Lauderdale County Sheriff's Office / Via Facebook: permalink.php |
An Alabama corrections officer and an inmate who is facing capital murder charges went missing on Friday after the two allegedly left the jail to go to court for a mental health evaluation that was never scheduled. The inmate, Casey Cole White, and Lauderdale County Sheriff's Assistant Director of Corrections Vicki White left the jail at about 9:41 a.m. local time, but never showed up at the courthouse and did not return to the detention center, Sheriff Rick Singleton told reporters on Friday. Authorities said it is not yet clear whether Vicki White, who is not related to Casey White, was helping him escape or whether she was kidnapped.
Casey White was being held on capital murder charges in connection with the 2015 death of 58-year-old Connie Ridgeway, according to WHNT. The sheriff said Vicki White had worked for the department for 25 years and was considered "an exemplary employee," adding that she had been voted as supervisor of the year and corrections employee of the year multiple times.
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PLEASE STOP CALLING IT "NERD PROM" The White House Correspondents' dinner nearly made my head explode |
President Joe Biden shakes hands with comedian Trevor Noah during the White House Correspondents' Dinner. Nicholas Kamm / AFP via Getty Images |
Normally I wouldn't bother writing an article about something like the White House Correspondents' Dinner, writes Lissandra Villa. Because unless you live here, why would you care? But the large, indoor event at the Washington Hilton was back for the first time since 2019 on Saturday night, even though members of the administration, including Vice President Kamala Harris, tested positive for COVID in recent days. And so there I was, the day's White House pool reporter in a packed room of hundreds of unmasked journalists, celebrities, politicians, and President Joe Biden and Dr. Jill Biden. For a city that prides itself on having the most rational and analytical minds in the country, this weekend it suffered a collective case of cognitive dissonance, and you really have to question the wisdom of proceeding with the event. Nearly everyone was boozing it up and taking photos of Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson, acting like it was a totally normal night. "It is my great honor to be speaking tonight at the nation's most distinguished superspreader event," joked Trevor Noah, who headlined the dinner. "Do you read any of your own newspapers?" |
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