Long term covid not that uncommon with mild cases - WSJ

[Brett]

Nope. All for-profit media is the same as is every career politician and program administrator (Fauci). Your wrong, again.

I would never have guessed you're a big fan of public radio and PBS

 

["Roger"]

Washington Post article on children with mild cases of covid but long term symptoms.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/03/18/virus-longhaul-coronavirus-children/

Given that it is an article about covid, I don't think that it is behind a firewall, but if so, here is the key set of stats.

For 12- to 16-year-olds, 15 percent had at least one lingering symptom.​

​

In adults, it ranged from 18 percent in people 70 and older to nearly 27 percent in people 35 to 49.​

 

[geekette]

Nope. All for-profit media is the same as is every career politician and program administrator (Fauci). Your wrong, again.

Wow. What a massively large brush you paint with. Identical motivations across the board? okie dokie. Indeed, you certainly do believe what you want to believe and throw in Fauci and call him program administrator. just ... wow.

 

["Roger"]

If you Google today you will find a number of news reports on a study by Northwestern University on the long term effects of covid. (I am on the road and can't presently copy a web address from my phone. Perhaps someone will help me out.)

About 100 patients were in the study. The typical patient was female, about 45 years old. Initially, they only had mild symptoms. In fact, about half the people in the study
had symptoms but initiallyy tested negative for covid ( from the NYT article.) Currently about 85 percent of the people in the study had four or more neurological symptoms.

 

[bluehende]

If you Google today you will find a number of news reports on a study by Northwestern University on the long term effects of covid. (I am on the road and can't presently copy a web address from my phone. Perhaps someone will help me out.)

About 100 patients were in the study. The typical patient was female, about 45 years old. Initially, they only had mild symptoms. In fact, about half the people in the study
had symptoms but initiallyy tested negative for covid ( from the NYT article.) Currently about 85 percent of the people in the study had four or more neurological symptoms.

Northwestern Medicine Newsroom

Newsroom Northwestern Medicine

www.nm.org

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/acn3.51350

 

["Roger"]

Lancet Psychiatry reports that one in three covid survivors has long term psychiatric problems.

Covid survivors at increased risk of developing psychiatric problems, study finds

One in three people who recover from coronavirus develop neurological or psychiatric condition within six months, research finds

news.yahoo.com

While much rarer, some of the people surveyed experienced serious neurological conditions.

...the incidence of neurological conditions appeared lower, with 0.6 per cent having a brain haemorrhage, 2.1 per cent ischaemic stroke and 0.7 per cent dementia. (Yikes!)

(I keep posting in this thread, but I think it is important to counter the claim that you only have a percent chance of dying from covid if you contract it, mostly if you are elderly, so it is not a big problem to worry about. Dying is NOT the only bad outcome from Covid. Even with regard to dying and the elderly, I found an early post in connection with Sweden that it is just a bunch of old people dying and they were going to die anyway, particularly offensive.)

 

[bluehende]

the study

6-month neurological and psychiatric outcomes in 236 379 survivors of COVID-19: a retrospective cohort study using electronic health records

Our study provides evidence for substantial neurological and psychiatric morbidity in the 6 months after COVID-19 infection. Risks were greatest in, but not limited to, patients who had severe COVID-19. This information could help in service planning and identification of research priorities...

www.thelancet.com

 

[exco]

It is very difficult to convince people. Here is the post from me in late Feb. 2021. It seems no one changes his/her view.

Some studies showing that as many as one-third of patients with COVID-19 may experience long-term lingering symptoms after not dying | Timeshare Users Group Online Discussion Forums (tugbbs.com)

 

[exco]

Experts alarmed by number of COVID survivors with brain disorders
"One in three COVID-19 survivors suffer from a neurological or mental disorder within six months of infection, according to a University of Oxford-led study looking mostly at American patients."

Experts alarmed by number of COVID survivors with brain disorders

Among patients treated in the ICU, 7% suffered a stroke and nearly 2% were diagnosed with dementia. Researchers also found 17% of patients developed anxiety and 14% experienced mood disorders.

www.yahoo.com

COVID-19 and mental health concerns, anxiety and mood disorders common after infection

COVID-19 and mental health concerns, anxiety and mood disorders common after infection

Survivors of COVID-19 appear to be at increased risk of anxiety and mood disorders. That's according to a study that found a possible link between COVID-19 infections and then a diagnosis of mental health and neurological disorders. Nadia Romero has a closer look in today's health minute.

news.yahoo.com

 

[PigsDad]

<deleted>
not worth it

 

["Roger"]

Another article warning about long term covid.

Beating the coronavirus didn’t spare him from possible ‘COVID psychosis.’ His wife warns it’s not as rare as people think.

Experts are seeing more reports of COVID-19 survivors developing psychotic symptoms, even when they have no prior history of mental illness.

www.usatoday.com

Those who keep saying the chances of dying are minimal should not be ignoring the long term (life time?) effects of having covid. This is not a danger for the old, almost ready to die people (although I myself find those references offensive).

 

[bluehende]

While we are adding possible risks to having covid.

Two Pandemics Clash as Doctors Find That Covid Spurs Diabetes

When Ziyad Al-Aly’s research team told him how often diabetes appeared to strike Covid-19 survivors, he thought the data must be wrong, so he asked his five colleagues to crunch the numbers again.

www.bloomberg.com

Al-Aly and colleagues were the first to measure the effect in the U.S. based on evidence from the national health-care databases of the Department of Veterans Affairs. They found that Covid survivors were about 39% more likely to have a new diabetes diagnosis in the six months after infection than non-infected users of the VA health system. The risk works out to about 6.5 additional diabetes cases for every 1,000 Covid patients who don’t end up in the hospital. For those who do, the probability jumps to 37 per 1,000 -- and it’s even higher for patients who required intensive care.

 

[exco]

Another article warning about long term covid.

Beating the coronavirus didn’t spare him from possible ‘COVID psychosis.’ His wife warns it’s not as rare as people think.

Experts are seeing more reports of COVID-19 survivors developing psychotic symptoms, even when they have no prior history of mental illness.

www.usatoday.com

Those who keep saying the chances of dying are minimal should not be ignoring the long term (life time?) effects of having covid. This is not a danger for the old, almost ready to die people (although I myself find those references offensive).

I have been hoping these long term COVID articles could make people to be more cautious. The pandemic is like a wildfire. Once it is going, it is hard to put down.
No one has problems or complaints about how to prevent a wildfire. Why some people could not wear a mask indoors or stay 6 ft. away (e.g. social distancing), and prevent the spread of the coronavirus?

For people living with severe chronic disease/pain, or serious brain/mental disorder, it's not a quality of life to live. Also, about any other diseases, death is a number that is easier to be captured, and does not accurately represent sufferings.

So should governments/foundations only base on the death number to prioritize the funding and decide what to do?

 

[LMD]

SIL (50 y/o fit, healthy women) had very little symptoms during the initial onset of COVID now month later she has several issues related to Epstein Barr which was reactivated thanks to the virus. It’s so bad she has had to take a leave of absence from her job.