Long COVID affects one in 10, risk is the same with EACH episode no matter its severity

[SorellaLaBefana]

There is a lot of new information in this Australian article linked from Nature briefing. Oz apparently now has a "relaxed attitude towards COVID-19"

It is estimated more than 10 per cent of those who catch COVID-19 will experience chronic health issues, with women aged between 30 and 55 particularly at risk...

...the report was “jaw-dropping” and should prompt a rethink of Australia’s relaxed attitude towards COVID-19.
Each time a person is reinfected with the virus, they have the same likelihood of catching long COVID...

An analysis by the US Department of Veterans Affairs of 150,000 people showed they had an increased risk of cardiovascular diseases such as heart failure and stroke just one year after catching COVID-19, regardless of how severe the initial infection was...

“Long COVID is not some vague mysterious thing that you can palm off as psychosomatic, though many do. It is a very clear clinical illness with a biochemical and cellular underpinning,”

https://www.theage.com.au/national/we-re-all-vulnerable-one-in-10-people-will-end-up-with-long-covid-new-study-says-20230115-p5ccn5.html?utm_source=Nature+Briefing&utm_campaign=fe0a00b2fb-briefing-dy-20230117&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c9dfd39373-fe0a00b2fb-43544217

[Warpy]

1. The gift that keeps on giving

An absent or perverted sense of smell is going to be a real liability in areas where the food supply is not safe, meaning crowded cities in both Africa and Asia. People are just not going to be able to detect tainted food by its odor and food borne illness and death are going to start to increase.

My own sense of smell disappeared for weeks in 2020 and is still a little hit or miss, although I count myself lucky that I'm not constantly smelling shit or garbage. It's accurate, just blunted most of the time. Other problems have disappeared, like the outrageous typos I was making that I couldn't see unless I left a post languishing for half an hour or so before I reread it for errors. Nowadays my Typoese is back to what it always was, fangled tingers.

Covid does seem to be slowly attenuating, becoming more contagious but with less serious illness. Eventually it will most likely become a sixth common cold coronavirus. I wish we could speed up the process, but that seems to be as much of a challenge as eliminating it altogether, not going to happen. In the meantime, there will most likely be a new shot every couple of years to cover new variants and wise people will keep up with them.