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Men are almost 50% more likely to die of covid* than women. Better start that hormone therapy.

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but it's not entirely unforseeable, given how idiotically people behave or rather how susceptible we are to selective, biased and purposely misleading medical information.
 
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Does anyone know why ? I mean I kind of understand that heart problems are more common in older people, and COVID-19 is worse for older people, so that'd explain the age differences. But the sex differences ?
I've heard heart disease is sometimes overlooked in women, so could these numbers show not the real risk but the underdiagnosing for women ? Or that's for other heart diseases and not myocarditis?
I know a woman over 50 who is going to get a moderna booster tomorrow. She got 2 doses of Pfizer before with mild secondary effects. The week after the second dose she felt weaker at sport (leisure) but otherwise fine.
The question is : does 3rd dose Moderna in this study mean the counted people all got 3 dosis of Moderna or do they also count 2 pfizer + 1/2 Moderna ? Maybe they looked at the UK and they haven't mixed brands there ?
The difference between men and women regarding myocarditis appears to be linked to testosterone levels, which increases inflammation and scarring in the heart. While estrogen (female sex hormone) appears to have a protective effect.
I would assume that's the reason why mostly younger men are affected by the vaccine compared to older men due to Covid.

Men are more affected then women: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19710029/
In patients with clinically acute myocarditis, myocardial fibrosis was more frequent in men and in patients younger than 40 years. Injury sustained in younger patients appears to be more regional and more severe, as indicated by a higher incidence of irreversible injury.

Women are also affected by Cardiovascular diseases (CVD): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC3318944/
Sex hormones play a major role in the pathogenesis of CVD, as reflected by a higher incidence and severity of CVD in men than women across all age groups. Estrogens are protective for heart physiology and prevent or delay CVD. Evidence that the incidence of CVD increases in women as estrogen declines with age and menopause, further supports a protective role for estrogens in the heart. Sex differences in the incidence of CVD are also influenced by gender differences in cardiovascular risk factors and presentation of disease. Although CVD occurs more frequently in men, it is also the leading cause of death in women, just as it is for men. For this reason it is critical that researchers and clinicians gain a better understanding of the factors that contribute to CVD in both men and women.
Sex differences exist in normal heart physiology and function. For example, men have larger hearts (left ventricular mass), cardiac contractility is greater in healthy women than age-matched men, myocardial mass is better preserved in women as they age, cardiac apoptosis is threefold higher in men compared with women as they age, women have smaller coronary vessels than men and pre-menopausal women have lower blood pressure but a faster resting heart rate than men. Many other sex-specific differences exist in the hearts of apparently normal men and women according to microarray and proteomic analyses. For example, in the aging female heart, hypertrophy, apoptosis and fibrosis are less pronounced than in the aging male heart. These underlying sex differences in cardiac function directly influence the immune response to infection and injury in the heart.
 
Getting Subway sandwiches delivered during Omicron, yea or nay? I got a $25 Subway gift card for Christmas, so I went ahead and used it. How long does Omicron survive on room temperature food?
 
Getting Subway sandwiches delivered during Omicron, yea or nay? I got a $25 Subway gift card for Christmas, so I went ahead and used it. How long does Omicron survive on room temperature food?
Well you could theoretically get it from all kind of sources but food hasn't been highlighted as main way for Covid to spread.

Survice and how long Covid can survive on it:
Plastic: The virus can survive between 3 and 7 days on plastic.
Cardboard: The virus can survive up to 24 hours on cardboard.
Glass: The virus can survive up to 4 days on glass.
Cloth: The virus can survive up to 2 days on cloth.
Source: https://www.healthline.com/health/how-long-does-coronavirus-last-on-surfaces

Just see it as the lock on your front door. It's probably not safe at all, a skilled person can probably open it in less then a minute. But how often did that happen? Probably (hopefully) never.
So if you are going to see what could potentially be an attack surface for Covid and you look at tap-water for example, you might be getting scared for no reason.
 
The difference between men and women regarding myocarditis appears to be linked to testosterone levels, which increases inflammation and scarring in the heart. While estrogen (female sex hormone) appears to have a protective effect.
I would assume that's the reason why mostly younger men are affected by the vaccine compared to older men due to Covid.
Wow. Thank you very much for such a complete answer. This forum is blessing me with information today.
My "love" was for the great explanation, not for heart diseases, or secondary adverse effects, of course.
Just in case someone else happens to understand "estrogen" but not "apoptosis", apoptosis seems to mean programmed cell death.
 
Survice and how long Covid can survive on it:
Plastic: The virus can survive between 3 and 7 days on plastic.
Cardboard: The virus can survive up to 24 hours on cardboard.
Glass: The virus can survive up to 4 days on glass.
Cloth: The virus can survive up to 2 days on cloth.
Source: https://www.healthline.com/health/how-long-does-coronavirus-last-on-surfaces
Coronaviruses aren't all covid-19, and usually if someone refers to coronavirus they mean more the common cold than covid-19. But yeah, all the food I order from the supermarket I leave for 2 days before touching (and wash my hands after putting it away after it's delivered). I'm probably being overcautious but rather safe than sorry.
 
Coronaviruses aren't all covid-19, and usually if someone refers to coronavirus they mean more the common cold than covid-19. But yeah, all the food I order from the supermarket I leave for 2 days before touching (and wash my hands after putting it away after it's delivered). I'm probably being overcautious but rather safe than sorry.
Looks like the article is mixing multiple names, this is from the first line of the article: "In late 2019, a new coronavirus began circulating in humans. This virus, called SARS-CoV-2, causes the illness known COVID-19.".
They do mean covid-19, which I personally abbreviate to just 'covid'.
 

"Hey, people are noticing that our candles don't smell. What do I do?"
"Put out a press release blaming it on COVID. Works every time."
I read somewhere that omicron, unlike the other covid variants, didn't have the loss of smell as often:
"What's also 'slightly different' with Omicron is that users are reporting loss of smell or taste less often, said Prof Spector.
Data out of South Africa pointed to this trend and data generated by the ZOE app confirms that it does occur but it's less common, he reported."
Source: https://www.express.co.uk/life-styl...nt-symptoms-less-loss-of-smell-or-taste-delta
 
I read somewhere that omicron, unlike the other covid variants, didn't have the loss of smell as often:
"What's also 'slightly different' with Omicron is that users are reporting loss of smell or taste less often, said Prof Spector.
Data out of South Africa pointed to this trend and data generated by the ZOE app confirms that it does occur but it's less common, he reported."
Source: https://www.express.co.uk/life-styl...nt-symptoms-less-loss-of-smell-or-taste-delta
But a running nose is a symptom of Omicron. Do people smell right when they have a running nose ? Or is it just me that lose smell whenever I get a cold or allergy ?
 
Yes, I'd expect loss of smell to be in effect while you can't easily breathe through your nose, stands to reason. But with previous covid-19 epidemics the loss of smell was among the first symptoms you notice before other symptoms knock you out, as well as a significant occurrance in long covid diagnoses. If this doesn't happen with Omicron so often that's great news, the only trouble is I don't really trust the express as a source of news myself, but I haven't really kept up with it's publishing and I should probably note that Richard Desmond hasn't owned the title since 2018 (it's currently published by Trinity Mirror group, which isn't a particular vote for its veracity, but at least they aren't pornographers).
 
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Yes, I'd expect loss of smell to be in effect while you can't easily breathe through your nose, stands to reason. But with previous covid-19 epidemics the loss of smell was among the first symptoms you notice before other symptoms knock you out, as well as a significant occurrance in long covid diagnoses. If this doesn't happen with Omicron so often that's great news, the only trouble is I don't really trust the express as a source of news myself, but I haven't really kept up with it's publiushing and I should probably note that Richard Desmond hasn't owned the title since 2018 (it's currently published by Trinity Mirror group, which isn't a particular vote for its veracity, but at least they aren't pornographers).
It was just the first hit on google, but many other sources reported on it:
I was aware of it due to complaints about the UK government not updating their Covid symptoms page as it still reported only the original covid symptoms.

Reduction of smell I think usually is due to having a stuffed nose, with covid you can have a total loss of smell.
 
It was just the first hit on google, but many other sources reported on it:
Okay, that provides a little more balance. Consider how many words in that NY times article are spent convincing us that Omicron Covid-19 is still an extremely dangerous virus. The Yale article is old news in the timeline of the Omicron epidemic, so I'll trust more recently published news (including that express story).
 
Okay, that provides a little more balance. Consider how many words in that NY times article are spent convincing us that Omicron Covid-19 is still an extremely dangerous virus. The Yale article is old news in the timeline of the Omicron epidemic, so I'll trust more recently published news (including that express story).
Bounced at the NYT paywall. But anyway, I can understand that they consider Omicron dangerous. I mean if I had to choose a variant to suffer myself, I'd probably chose Omicron over Delta. But if I had to choose an outbreak in my society, I'd prefer Delta than Omicron.
Not only because the little existing immunity is from Delta. Also because Omicron may end up killing more people and overloading health systems faster, through much more numerous infections, even if most infections are milder. Less % of a bigger number can very easiliy be a bigger number. And the NYT audience (the USA) is possibly so individualistic that societal effects need explaining.Societies also suffer from lack of workforce while patients isolate or recover from mild cases.
 
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Oh man, according to the CDC, this week's Omicron proportion projection is actually less than last week's projection. Of course, last week's projection was revised downward, from 73% to 22%. This week we stand at 58%, but there's no telling how that will be revised.
 
58% of what exactly?
I would guess all positive cases.
58% of all positive cases would be omicron. The projections are high because omicron is predicted to spread faster, but JDTAY is reporting that's less the case I assume.
In the UK you can see omicron is replacing delta rapidly (90.4% of all positive cases at the moment).

(D'oh, late :p)
 
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