Summer Bonus: More than 100 reasons why people of all ages should avoid getting Covid

Welcome to the fourth and final Summer 2026 Bonus Issue for the Covid-Is-Not-Over newsletter!

These bonus issues are basically collections of links that I haven’t been able to use for the regular newsletter. This bonus issue is all about how Covid is still a threat to the health and well-being of everyone, including children..

I’ll resume regular newslettering maybe next week or the week after. Will there be an AI related extra bonus issue? Maybe, maybe not. I haven’t decided yet. If so, it might overlap with the return of regular posting.

The whole purpose of these bonus issues is to get something out that I hope you will all find useful but that I don’t have to work too hard on. What with it being summer and all, that seems like the best idea.

The previous bonus issues for summer 2026 are:

• Shout it from the highest mountain: Long Covid is real! (Low traffic dog days of summer post! Needs extra love!)

• The ongoing Covid pandemic is transforming everything all around us and nobody is noticing

• Covid is airborne! Clean the air! Wear a mask! Test the wastewater!

With that, I’ll just stop typing.

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Top Articles Everyone Should Read on Covid

• What COVID-19 Does to the Body (10th Edition, February 2026) / Pandemic Accountability Index

• What Do We Know About Long COVID? A Compilation of Medical Research (125+ Studies) / Pandemic Accountability Index

• ANSWERED: Is COVID-19 Harmful to Children? A Compilation of Peer-Reviewed Medical Research / Pandemic Accountability Index

• ANSWERED: Does COVID-19 Impact the Immune System? A Compilation of Medical Research (45+ Studies) / Pandemic Accountability Index

• ANSWERED: Does COVID-19 Harm the Brain? / Pandemic Accountability Index

• WHN joins in the chorus: Medical masks are not PPE / World Health Network

• Yes, We Continue Wearing Masks—Here’s Why: Common Questions Answered / World Health Network

• Seven Things to Know About Long COVID by Marisa Swanson / World Health Network

• Long COVID in Context: Prevalence, Search Interest, and Funding / World Health Network

• Spectrum of COVID-19: From Asymptomatic Organ Damage to Long COVID Syndrome by Andrew Ewing, Špela Šalamon, et al. / World Health Network

• Simple things you can do to avoid COVID by Lucky Tran / Aranet

• Immunity Debt: The Conspiracy Theory Elevated to Popular Pseudoscience That Is Making Children Sick / LIL_Science

• You Have To Live Your Life & more Responses to Common COVID Minimizing Phrases

• Covid-19: Will It Mutate To Nothingness? by Rawat Deonandan

• The Science of How COVID Spreads by Abby / One Life Lived Well

• How respiratory viruses transmit: Why some viruses spread easily and others don’t, and what it means for prevention by Gage Moreno

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Covid Is Still Bad for You (Since December 2025)

1. Multicentre retrospective detection of nailfold videocapillaroscopy abnormalities in long covid patients | RMD Open

2. Study finds that despite broad COVID vaccine availability, COVID still deadlier than flu in hospitalized patients | CIDRAP

3. Prevalence and trajectories of post-COVID-19 neuromuscular conditions: A systematic-review and meta-analysis - Journal of the Neurological Sciences

4. The COVID generation: the neurodevelopmental consequences of in-utero COVID-19 exposure - ScienceDirect

5. Post-COVID impairment of memory T cell responses to community-acquired pathogens can be rectified by activating cellular metabolism | bioRxiv

6. COVID Continues to Take a Toll, Especially Among Older Adults, Study Suggests | MedPage Today

7. COVID continues to exact heavy toll on older US adults, study suggests | CIDRAP

8. COVID-19 and Alzheimer’s Disease: What’s the Connection?

9. Prospective associations of long COVID with sleep health nearly 3 years after SARS-CoV-2 infection: a statewide representative cohort study

10. Pregnant Women With COVID-19 Have Increased Risk for Complications - Optometry Advisor

11. Cardiovascular Event Risk Heightened After Hospitalization for COVID-19 - Infectious Disease Advisor

12. Association between COVID-19 and New-Onset Autoimmune Diseases: Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of 97 Million Individuals - PubMed

13. Persistent attenuation of lymphocyte subsets after mass SARS-CoV-2 infection - ScienceDirect

14. COVID-19 severity is linked to changes in mitochondrial DNA methylation

15. You are probably getting brain damage from all those COVID infections.

16. The silent epidemic within the pandemic: pathophysiology and prediction of post-COVID-19 diabetes | Journal of Translational Medicine

17. Alzheimer’s disease, delirium may be risk factors for COVID infection requiring hospitalization | CIDRAP

18. ‘Zombie’ Remnants of COVID-19 Hunt In Packs And Kill Our Immune Cells : ScienceAlert

19. Long-Term Olfactory Dysfunction in COVID-19 Patients: A Systematic Review | Cureus

20. Impaired brain intrinsic connectivity in long COVID during cognitive exertion revealed by independent component analysis | Scientific Reports

21. Long COVID Linked to Alzheimer’s Disease Mechanisms

22. COVID infection may impair male fertility, but vaccination shows no effect, review suggests | CIDRAP

23. COVID survivors may be at higher risk for obstructive sleep apnea for up to 4.5 years post-infection

24. COVID Tied to New Sleep Apnea Diagnosis Up to More Than 4 Years Later | MedPage Today

25. Over 43% of health care professionals suffered insomnia during and after COVID-19, study reveals

26. The COVID generation: the neurodevelopmental consequences of in-utero COVID-19 exposure - ScienceDirect

27. Long-term brain effects of COVID-19 vs. flu: Study reveals key differences

28. COVID-19 infection predicts higher risk of kidney disease, study finds | Penn State University

29. How Covid Quietly Rewires the Brain

30. COVID-19 ARDS survivors face lasting disability and high late mortality, researchers report

31. Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Splanchnic Thrombosis Mortality: A United States National Analysis (2018-2023) | Cureus

32. ‘Mini hearts’ show COVID-19 virus directly infects heart tissue

33. Report: COVID survivors at nearly 5 times the risk for kidney failure | CIDRAP

34. Post-COVID-19 Cardiovascular Complications: An Updated Systematic Review

35. Scientists Discover Why Some COVID Survivors Still Can’t Taste Food Years Later

36. Persistent attenuation of lymphocyte subsets after mass SARS-CoV-2 infection - ScienceDirect

37. Respiratory viral infections prime accelerated lung cancer growth: Cell

38. Post-COVID Liver Complications Revealed - EMJ

39. Prevalence and trajectories of post-COVID-19 neuromuscular conditions: A systematic-review and meta-analysis - ScienceDirect

40. Severe COVID or flu may raise lung cancer risk years later | ScienceDaily

41. COVID-19-Associated Cardiovascular Complications: A Narrative Literature Review | Cureus

42. Electrodiagnostic Findings in COVID-19 ICU Survivors | Cureus

43. SARS-CoV-2 and the Pandemic Surge in Invasive Group A Streptococcal Disease | medRxiv

44. Kids’ cognitive skills declined during COVID-19 pandemic, studies show | CIDRAP

45. Why COVID and flu hit older lungs harder: Aging tissue may bring on immune dysregulation

46. Brain structural and functional damage network localization of COVID-19 survivors

47. Long COVID is associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease

48. ANSWERED: Does COVID-19 Impact Sexual Health?

49. Covid Virus May Spread More Widely by Turning Lung Cells Into Targets, Study Finds

50. Post-acute organ complications within one year following COVID-19 hospitalization and related socioeconomic inequalities | Nature Communications

51. COVID-19 in mink farm reveals early lung damage

52. New Information Regarding the Relationship Between COVID-19 and Breast Cancer Recurrence

53. COVID-19 may increase lung cancer risk through inflammatory pathways in lungs Labmate Online

54. COVID-19 and severe heart attack increase mortality by 25% after one year, more than double pre-pandemic rates | EurekAlert!

55. COVID-19 at Time of Heart Attack Linked to Higher Mortality Risk | MedPage Today

56. Combination of COVID, severe heart attack confers 25% greater risk of death, data suggest | CIDRAP

57. Many older adults who died of COVID weren’t close to death before infection, study suggests | CIDRAP

58. Long-term cardiovascular impact of COVID-19 among hospitalised and non-hospitalised populations: a narrative synthesis review

59. Acute SARS-CoV-2 infection and self-reported post-acute cognitive dysfunctions from the Danish EFTER-COVID survey | Communications Medicine

60. Cross-resistance patterns in SARS-CoV-2 against 3CL protease inhibitors | Nature Communications

61. Healthcare-associated COVID-19 in Ontario, Canada: case classification and relative mortality | BMC Infectious Diseases | Springer Nature Link

62. COVID Linked to Lasting Eye Problems

63. COVID-19’s Long-Tail Effects on Kidney Health: A Q&A With Dr Bellovich

64. Healthy hearts prior to pandemic reduced severe COVID-19 risk

65. Characterizing acute and persistent symptoms of COVID-19 among adults and children in rural Zambia, 2020–2022 | PLOS Global Public Health

66. COVID-19-Induced GI Vascular Abnormalities: Beyond Fatigue and Lungs | Cureus

67. COVID History May Prompt New Allergies

68. Severe COVID-19 reveals distinct immune patterns tied to metabolism, not just antiviral response

69. Elderly people and those with underlying health problems, such as immunodeficiency, diabetes and kidney disorders, are more likely to develop severe symptoms from COVID-19. - Japan Today

70. What COVID is teaching doctors about the relationship between viruses and cancer - Los Angeles Times

71. Persistent increased risk of renal replacement therapy following COVID-19: a 2-year follow-up study in Japan using propensity score matching and inverse probability censoring weighting | BMJ Open

72. Study links COVID-19 to higher sleep apnea risk years after infection

73. Post-COVID-19 Immune Dysregulation and Autoimmune Sequelae - ScienceDirect

74. Study links severe COVID to higher TB risk, and vaccination appears to blunt the link

75. Long-term ocular symptoms following COVID-19 linked to immune dysregulation, dysautonomia and peripheral neuropathy | Nature Communications

76. Hidden pathway drives COVID-19 infection, triggers damaging inflammation in the lungs

77. Eye problems after COVID-19 can now be explained | EurekAlert!

78. Persistent vision problems after COVID linked to ongoing inflammation, nerve damage | CIDRAP

79. How COVID-19 can impact dopamine levels in the brain – CP24

80. Study reveals why key antiviral defenses failed in some severe COVID-19 patients | Press Releases | wboc.com

81. Long-term ocular symptoms following COVID-19 linked to immune dysregulation, dysautonomia and peripheral neuropathy | Nature Communications

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Covid Is Still Bad for Children Too (Since December 2025)

1. The COVID generation: the neurodevelopmental consequences of in-utero COVID-19 exposure - ScienceDirect

2. Social Determinants Drive Paediatric Long COVID Risk - EMJ

3. Economic hardship, adverse social conditions may put kids at higher risk for long COVID | CIDRAP

4. Kids with sleep apnea may face higher risks of flu, COVID | CIDRAP

5. Higher pre-COVID BMI tied to greater risk of post-infection heart, GI problems in youth

6. Kay Rhee, MD, discusses adverse social determinants linked to higher odds of pediatric long COVID

7. Babies with COVID-19 develop more serious disease than those with RSV, US data reveal

8. Tess Finch-Lees: Forever-Covid hurts young people’s health – and their futures | Irish Independent

9. COVID-19 in Pregnancy: Maternal, Neonatal, and Racial Disparities in a Local Cohort | Cureus

10. School Difficulties and Long COVID in Children and Adolescents - ScienceDirect

11. COVID-19 Linked to Changes in Fetal Growth Measurements

12. Study links long COVID in kids to worse grades, attention, and social life | CIDRAP

13. Interdisciplinary Pediatric Long-COVID Care: A Descriptive Study of Interventions and Health-Related Quality of Life | Open Forum Infectious Diseases | Oxford Academic

14. Scientists find that human embryos are vulnerable to COVID

15. Reinfection Raises Long COVID Risk in Children and Adolescents - News Center

16. Some children still experiencing long COVID symptoms more than 3 years after infection, new UK study finds

17. Minority children have higher odds of severe post-COVID complications, study suggests | CIDRAP

18. New research reveals COVID-19’s long-term impact on kids - Children’s National

19. SARS-CoV-2 reinfection: a possible contributing factor to long COVID in children and adolescents

20. Characteristics, all-cause healthcare resource utilisation, and costs among high-risk adults with long COVID during Omicron predominance, 2022–2023: a retrospective cohort study using UK primary care data | BMC Health Services Research | Springer Nature Link

21. Antibody repertoire associated with clinically diverse presentations of pediatric SARS-CoV-2 infection | Scientific Reports

22. Kids Born in COVID Lockdown May Have Diminished Executive Function | MedPage Today

23. Endovascular profiles linked to neutrophil activation in children and young adults with long COVID | Pediatric Research

Kid-Related Transmission Too

• Primer — COVID Safety For Schools

• The relative contribution of close-proximity contacts, shared classroom exposure and indoor air quality to respiratory virus transmission in schools | Nature Communications

• The School Engine Behind Flu and COVID — and Why Clean Air for Kids Is the Missing Public Health Tool

• Children’s Birthday Gatherings and SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Grandparents | Infectious Diseases | JAMA Network Open

• Contagious cuteness: Children’s birthday parties spread COVID-19 to grandparents during pandemic | CIDRAP

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