I Caught Covid: What Happened and What I Learned Luci Gabel—On Leadership, Life, Health and Happiness

There are so many confusing messages about COVID today. Has it become as benign as a cold? Is it just like the flu? Are you completely safe if you're fit and healthy?

I'll tell you about the experience I had with it in December. And I'll share the most recent research I've found about it.

Below is a list of references to the studies I mentioned in this episode, in the order I speak about them.

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Covid and blood:

Valentine Léopold, et al:
Platelets of COVID-19 patients display mitochondrial dysfunction, oxidative
stress, and energy metabolism failure compatible with cell death, Research and
Practice in Thrombosis and Haemostasis,Volume 7, Issue 7,2023,102213,ISSN
2475-0379, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rpth.2023.102213


Cardiovascular issues after exposure:

Nat Med. 2022; 28(3): 583–590. Published online 2022 Feb 7. doi: 10.1038/s41591-022-01689-3

 

Xie Y, Xu E, Bowe B,
Al-Aly Z. Long-term cardiovascular outcomes of COVID-19. Nat Med. 2022
Mar;28(3):583-590. doi: 10.1038/s41591-022-01689-3. Epub 2022 Feb 7. PMID:
35132265; PMCID: PMC8938267

 

Long Covid in
full spectrum of illness severity:

Li, J., Zhou, Y., Ma, J. et al. The long-term health
outcomes, pathophysiological mechanisms and multidisciplinary management of
long COVID. Sig Transduct Target
Ther8, 416
(2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41392-023-01640-z

 

Nine countries meta-analysis:

Journal of infection, Persistance
of post-covid symptoms in general population two years after SARS CoV-2
infection: A systematic review and meta-analysis. De-las-Peñas, et al. December
13, 2023 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinf.2023.12.004

 

CDC Research:  

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db480.htm#section_2

 

Athletes and Myocarditis:

Modica G, Bianco M, Sollazzo F, Di Murro E,
Monti R, Cammarano M, Morra L, Nifosì FM, Gervasi SF, Manes Gravina E, Zeppilli
P, Palmieri V. Myocarditis in Athletes Recovering from COVID-19: A Systematic
Review and Meta-Analysis. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Apr
2;19(7):4279. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19074279. PMID: 35409960; PMCID: PMC8998516.



Eighteen universities:

Massey, D., Saydah, S., Adamson, B. et al. Prevalence
of covid-19 and long covid in collegiate student athletes from spring 2020 to
fall 2021: a retrospective survey. BMC Infect Dis 23,
876 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-023-08801-z

 

Males, long COVID and exercise:

Appelman, B., Charlton, B.T., Goulding,
R.P. et al. Muscle abnormalities worsen after post-exertional
malaise in long COVID. Nat Commun 15, 17 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-44432-3
Physical activity was associated with a shorter length of symptoms:

Feter N, Caputo EL, Delpino FM, Leite JS, da Silva LS, de Almeida Paz I,
Santos Rocha JQ, Vieira YP, Schröeder N, da Silva CN, Baptista Gonçalves JC, da
Costa Pereira H, Barbosa TA, Cassuriaga J, da Silva MC, Reichert FF, Rombaldi
AJ. Physical activity and long COVID: findings from the Prospective Study About
Mental and Physical Health in Adults cohort. Public Health. 2023
Jul;220:148-154. doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2023.05.011. Epub 2023 Jun 13. PMID:
37320945; PMCID: PMC10263464.

 

Paxlovid:

NHS UK, https://www.nhs.uk/medicines/paxlovid/about-paxlovid

Smith DJ, Lambrou A, Patel P. SARS-CoV-2 Rebound With and
Without Use of COVID-19 Oral Antivirals. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep
2023;72:1357–1364. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm7251a1

 

Harrington PR, Cong J, Troy SB, et al. Evaluation of SARS-CoV-2 RNA
Rebound After Nirmatrelvir/Ritonavir Treatment in Randomized, Double-Blind,
Placebo-Controlled Trials — United States and International Sites, 2021–2022.
MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2023;72:1365–1370. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm7251a2.

Extras:

GWCIM Virtual Long Covid Open House, YouTube, https://youtu.be