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Making Real Friends In The Post Covid Era

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Making Real Friends In The Post Covid Era “How do you form deep friendships in your later years? You don’t have time on your side, and it can be difficult to meet people. Let me know when you find the answer, Elsa.” – Margaret on Losing Friends & Lack Of Trust I said I’d follow up on this. I waited to see if

Elsa Elsa 462 2024-05-12

How Therapy Can Help During Life-Changing Events Like COVID

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How Therapy Can Help During Life-Changing Events Like COVID Research shows that forms of talk therapy like cognitive-behavioral therapy or dialectical behavioral therapy helped people better cope with anxiety during COVID. Here’s what to know and how it can help you today.

WebMD 420 2024-04-07

What Happens if You Get Both COVID and Flu (or RSV) at Once?

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What Happens if You Get Both COVID and Flu (or RSV) at Once? One Johns Hopkins doctor says the patients he sees with multiple infections with respiratory viruses are “by far our sickest patients.” Good news, though: There are vaccines and drugs to treat most of them.

WebMD 1.0k 2024-02-24

Questions for Your PCP About Having COVID in 2023

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Questions for Your PCP About Having COVID in 2023 Q: I’ve just learned I have COVID. Should I— A: Wait. Are you over seventy, and/or are you functioning without an immune system, and/or did you actually listen when we told you to get a booster? Q: Uh, no, no, and yes. A: Ah, you’re one of the boring COVID cases then. Go ahead. Ask your questions. Q: Basically, is there anything I need to do now…

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Human Immunity Pushing Back on COVID As New Variant Arises

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Human Immunity Pushing Back on COVID As New Variant Arises The coronavirus is constantly mutating to survive the growing antibody pushback it encounters as our bodies learn how to fight it. COVID’s newest variant is an offshoot of BA.2.86 called JN.1.

WebMD 1.2k 2024-01-25

LPT – Stop thinking of life before COVID as the good old days

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LPT – Stop thinking of life before COVID as the good old days So much about life changed abruptly in March 2020. I’ve spent most of the last few years feeling like I was living in something resembling wartime. That every day was just about hunkering down, making it until tomorrow, surviving the war. The other week I realized that wasn’t the case. We’re not “at war.” That life could be fun and there was a …

Life Pro Tips 1.1k 2024-01-24

Clinics Peddle Unproven Stem Cell Treatment for Long COVID

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Clinics Peddle Unproven Stem Cell Treatment for Long COVID Researchers identified 38 direct-to-consumer businesses selling purported stem cell therapies to prevent and treat the virus – 36 of which also claim to treat post-COVID syndrome.

WebMD 470 2024-01-22

LPT If you were on unemployment during covid, and got denied at any point check your old login.

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LPT If you were on unemployment during covid, and got denied at any point check your old login. My case might have been the exception, but thousands of dollars from an appeal have been sitting there waiting for years. I hadn’t received email or mail regarding it, wrote it off as a lost cause. Recently was logged in and noticed an action item asking me to confirm my bank account. After confirmation there was a deposit in my account the nex…

Life Pro Tips 456 2024-01-06

Is the Novavax COVID Vaccine Actually ‘Better’?

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Is the Novavax COVID Vaccine Actually ‘Better’? Lots of people are hearing about Novavax, the fourth COVID vaccine option in the U.S., for the first time, but it’s been authorized for use as a primary vaccine series since early 2022. Previously, it was only available for those who hadn’t received a mRNA vaccine—an alternative for those who either couldn’t or… Read more…

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One Month Later: Where Are the Pediatric COVID Vaccines?

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One Month Later: Where Are the Pediatric COVID Vaccines? Since the the CDC recommended the COVID vaccine on Sept. 12, legions of parents are still searching for doses, especially for their youngest children, and are growing increasingly frustrated.

WebMD 766 2023-12-18