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Scientists agree that were 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. Thats 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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Zeitghost
(3,796 posts)The numbers have been flat for months.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,145 posts)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)Spiraling out of control implies things are getting worse, would you not agree?
Timewas
(2,174 posts)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)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.
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)Thousands are posting on Internet forums of their long Covid symptoms. Many are bed ridden. Many say its similar to ME/CFS.
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.
Celerity
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tritsofme
(17,323 posts)they have been saying this for monthsthat it is here to stay.
Ms. Toad
(33,915 posts)Maru Kitteh
(28,303 posts)Has anyone else noticed this?
Maybe its Halloween . . . . .
Either that or some bridges washed out somewhere.
RainCaster
(10,681 posts)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)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.