Augie Ray
@augieray@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

The man who opened fire on the CDC and killed a police officer blamed the #COVID19 vaccine for making him depressed and suicidal. MANY studies that tell us it is infections, not the vaccine, that cause this:

"Depression, serious mental illness, general anxiety, PRSD, addiction, self-harm, and suicide were elevated during weeks 1 through 4 after COVID-19 diagnosis compared with before or without COVID-19. Incidence was lower in people who were vaccinated." 8/2024 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/2822342

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Augie Ray
@augieray@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

"Subjects with COVID-19 had twice the odds of suicidal ideation (AOR = 2.00, p < 0.01) and more than twice the odds of self-harm (AOR = 2.05, p < 0.01) and poisoning (AOR = 2.21, p < 0.01) compared to those without COVID-19." 6/2024 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07853890.2025.2516698#abstract

"Liability to COVID-19 (especially critical or severe illness requiring hospitalization) may be causally linked to ADHD, BD (bipolar disorder), PTSD, SCZ (schizophrenia) and ST (suicidal thought)." 6/2023 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.29.21259609v2

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Augie Ray
@augieray@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

"Elevated HRs (hazrd ratios) were observed for almost all subcategories of mental disorders and suicidal behaviors, with variations based on sex, severity of SARS-CoV-2 infection, and viral variants." 12/2024 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0890856724002636

"Persons with long COVID were also significantly more likely to report experiencing psychosis, suicidal ideation, suicide plans, and suicide attempts within the last year." 9/2024 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40615-024-02170-2

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Augie Ray
@augieray@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

"Children faced increased risks for anxiety, OCD, ADHD, autism, and other conditions, while youths exhibited elevated risks for anxiety, suicidality, depression, and related symptoms." 7/2024 https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-5621095/v1

"Veterans who had a positive SARS-CoV-2 PCR test had a higher risk of suicide attempt and self-directed violence that were greatest within the first 30 days and present for at least one year following." 12/2022 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.23.22283902v1

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Augie Ray
@augieray@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

"A high prevalence of depressive, anxious, and stressed symptoms has been observed among patients with LC (Long COVID) in northern Barcelona." 7/2025 https://bjgpopen.org/content/early/2025/07/15/BJGPO.2024.0098

"One-fourth of individual with long-COVID experience mental health symptoms, including depression, anxiety, and stress, which remain prevalent even two years post-infection despite a slight decreasing trend." 1/2025 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0312351

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Augie Ray
@augieray@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

"Among patients with PCC, 14.0% had anxiety (HADS-Anxiety ≥11), and 18.6% had depression (HADS-Depression ≥11), with four times higher proportions than those without PCC." 7/2025 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39924249/

"A total of 210 patients agreed to participate, of which 157 (75%) reported at least one symptom at the 3–6 months visit; mostly asthenia, dyspnoea, psychiatric disorders such as anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and cognitive disorders. " 2/2025 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11815462/

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