‘Shrinking my world really small’: How New Yorkers are coping with long COVID - Gothamist
An estimated 500,000 New Yorkers suffer from COVID’s lingering effects, with 1 in 5 saying the condition significantly limits their activities.
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Long COVID Showed Me the Bottom of American Health Care
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“even mild or asymptomatic COVID infections can lead to a wide range of silent long term heath impacts — compromising our immune, vascular, circulatory, renal, metabolic, gastrointestinal systems and even cognitive function.”
even mild or asymptomatic COVID infections can lead to a wide range of silent long term heath impacts — compromising our immune, vascular, circulatory, renal, metabolic, gastrointestinal systems and even cognitive function.
The Pandemic Never Ended
“I never imagined I’d come to rely on 15 to 20 medications per day just to feel somewhat normal. I still have to ration my steps. I still feel physically ill the day after I do too much, walk uphill, exercise, or dance at a wedding. And now, I am still plagued with the fear of an ongoing pandemic while many have the luxury of pretending it’s over.”
Five years later, Long COVID patients still battle life-altering impacts
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”