Vulnerable Americans live in the shadow of COVID-19 as most move on
“Tossing aside the threat of long COVID is hard to imagine for Yale immunologist Akiko Iwasaki..scientists still don’t know how pieces of the virus can stick around in the blood”
Doctors struggling to treat long Covid patients in India. Here's why
Harvard Medical School study published in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases estimated that the following percentages of people have long Covid:
31% of moderately or severely infected individuals in North America
44% in Europe
51% in Asia
Did I not get the memo?
“Why do emergency department reports and hospital discharge summaries not mention that my patient tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 (or had “a really bad cold” or “the worst flu ever”) 1 month before they presented to hospital with weakness, falls, confusion, dyspnea, heart failure, acute kidney injury, or non–ST-elevation myocardial infarction? Doesn’t that seem relevant? It does to me.”pos
Just to be clear, the WHO thinks we’re heading for a mass disabling event.
Just to be clear, the WHO thinks we’re heading for a mass disabling event.
“An estimated one in 10 infections results in post-Covid conditions suggesting that hundreds of millions of people will need longer term care”