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Celerity

(42,663 posts)
Mon Sep 19, 2022, 07:53 PM Sep 2022

Dreaded Side Effect Rears Its Ugly Head in Latest COVID Variant

Scientists agree that we’re not doing enough to address a “silent” COVID crisis that seems to be spiraling out of control.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/scientists-warn-of-spike-in-long-covid-cases-across-the-united-states



All over the world, the rates of death and hospitalization from COVID keep dropping. But our successful mitigation of the worst outcomes of the 33-month-old pandemic belie a growing crisis.

More and more people are surviving COVID and staying out of the hospital, but more and more people are also living with long-term symptoms of COVID. Fatigue. Heart problems. Stomach problems. Lung problems. Confusion. Symptoms that can last for months or even a year or more after the infection clears.

As many as 21 percent of Americans who caught the SARS-CoV-2 virus this summer ended up suffering from long COVID starting four weeks after infection, according to a new study from City University of New York. That’s up from 19 percent in figures the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported in June.

Compare those numbers to the recent rates of death and hospitalization from COVID in the U.S.—three percent and .3 percent, respectively. Long COVID is by far the likeliest serious outcome from any novel-coronavirus infection. And possibly getting likelier.

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Dreaded Side Effect Rears Its Ugly Head in Latest COVID Variant (Original Post) Celerity Sep 2022 OP
Spiraling out of control? Zeitghost Sep 2022 #1
Hundreds of people are still dying every day and as more people end up with long covid -- even those WhiskeyGrinder Sep 2022 #3
And yet things continue to improve. Zeitghost Sep 2022 #12
A little misleading Timewas Sep 2022 #4
Not really Zeitghost Sep 2022 #11
I read Timewas Sep 2022 #13
What's out of control is "Long Covid" womanofthehills Sep 2022 #5
long Covid Celerity Sep 2022 #16
Oh, they must not have heard that the covid pandemic has been declared over. Giddyup! WhiskeyGrinder Sep 2022 #2
Post removed Post removed Sep 2022 #6
The pandemic is over, but Covid will be here forever. tritsofme Sep 2022 #7
Yes Rebl2 Sep 2022 #8
The pandemic is not over, according to the experts. n/t Ms. Toad Sep 2022 #14
I've seen such a proliferation of that neon green and purple hair lately Maru Kitteh Sep 2022 #10
A friend's granddaughter has long haulers RainCaster Sep 2022 #9
I am part of that increasing group of people with long COVID - Ms. Toad Sep 2022 #15

WhiskeyGrinder

(22,145 posts)
3. Hundreds of people are still dying every day and as more people end up with long covid -- even those
Mon Sep 19, 2022, 08:00 PM
Sep 2022

who have been up-to-date on their vaccinations -- we're moving through a massive but very slow moving disabling event that we'll be dealing with for decades.

Zeitghost

(3,796 posts)
12. And yet things continue to improve.
Tue Sep 20, 2022, 12:07 AM
Sep 2022

Spiraling out of control implies things are getting worse, would you not agree?

Timewas

(2,174 posts)
4. A little misleading
Mon Sep 19, 2022, 08:14 PM
Sep 2022

With the home tests and mild cases a pretty large portion are not being reported and therefore skew the statistics.. I know of quite a few, in fact 12 at one place that never made it to the records many more I am sure

Zeitghost

(3,796 posts)
11. Not really
Tue Sep 20, 2022, 12:03 AM
Sep 2022

Deaths are flat as well and under reporting has been an issue for quite awhile. We have not had a spike develop since Omicron last Nov. So when people use phrases like Covid is spiraling out of control, they are being purposely misleading and trying to instill fear. COVID is still a serious problem, but compared to 2020-2021, things are much much better.

Timewas

(2,174 posts)
13. I read
Tue Sep 20, 2022, 12:13 AM
Sep 2022

Something like 400 deaths a day, third most common cause. calling it by another name doesn't not change any of that and saying the "pandemic" is over is a slightly misleading attempt to make some feel good but also gives them permission to relax there safety standards some... Better to let it ride as was for a while longer... No real rush to declare it over except for political reasons as far as I can see...

I do hope it helps maintain control of both houses but makes me a little leery ...

womanofthehills

(8,579 posts)
5. What's out of control is "Long Covid"
Mon Sep 19, 2022, 08:15 PM
Sep 2022

Thousands are posting on Internet forums of their long Covid symptoms. Many are bed ridden. Many say it’s similar to ME/CFS.

A new USC study finds that 23% of people infected with COVID will become “long haulers,” and identifies predictors of who is likely to develop the sometimes-debilitating symptoms that can last for months.

The research, which appears in Scientific Reports, is unique because it accounts for preexisting symptoms such as fatigue and sneezing that are common to other conditions and may be mistaken for COVID symptoms.
. https://news.usc.edu/201045/who-will-get-long-covid/

Response to Celerity (Original post)

Maru Kitteh

(28,303 posts)
10. I've seen such a proliferation of that neon green and purple hair lately
Mon Sep 19, 2022, 10:37 PM
Sep 2022

Has anyone else noticed this?


Maybe it’s Halloween . . . . .

Either that or some bridges washed out somewhere.



RainCaster

(10,681 posts)
9. A friend's granddaughter has long haulers
Mon Sep 19, 2022, 10:24 PM
Sep 2022

She's in a burn ward now having lost 80% of her skin to a medicine allergy. She remains in my prayers.

Ms. Toad

(33,915 posts)
15. I am part of that increasing group of people with long COVID -
Tue Sep 20, 2022, 12:27 AM
Sep 2022

Fortunately, I think it was limited to pancreatitis and a temporary (I hope) reduction in how quickly my gall bladder empties bile. I'm due to have a blood test to ensure the immune deficiencies have cleared up - and within the next mont, I expect to be cleared as to the pancreas and gall bladder.

Those conditions, which required hospitalization four weeks after an extremely mild case of COVID in late June/early July.

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