The next wave of the pandemic: Long Covid
Category: Health, Science & Technology
Via: hallux • 4 years ago • 3 commentsBy: Caitlin Owens - Axios
It does not appear to matter what kind of healthcare you have, the system will be stressed and possibly to the breaking point.
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Two studies released last week emphasized how common it is for COVID survivors to require care months after their infection.
One study, published Thursday in Nature , found that, between one and six months post-infection, people whose coronavirus cases didn't require hospitalization had a 60% higher risk of death than people who hadn't been infected with the virus, per the New York Times .
These non-hospitalized COVID patients also had a 20% greater chance of needing outpatient medical care over those six months post-infection. Their symptoms spanned across organ systems and also included mental health issues.
Some could become chronic health conditions requiring lifelong treatment.
“We found it all,” Ziyad Al-Aly, chief of the research and development service at the VA St. Louis Health Care System and an author of the study, t old the NYT. “What was shocking about this when you put it all together was like ‘Oh my God,’ you see the scale."
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... but then speaking on a telephone seems to be far more dangerous than actually carrying a gun.
So they still don't know how bad any long term effects can be.
One of our neighbors contacted COVID in May of 2020. A week in the hospital but she still doesn't have the energy to walk around the block and her husband told me she gets ''brain fog'' from time to time.