While COVID-19 affects the respiratory system — shortness of breath, low blood oxygen, pneumonia and acute respiratory distress syndrome in severe cases — mounting evidence shows it can impact a number of different organs, in some cases leaving behind undetectable damage or persistent problems that can turn severe weeks later.
Some of these people are known as “long-haulers” — otherwise healthy people who just can’t seem to get better. Others may be experiencing post-intensive care syndrome, a constellation of symptoms that can haunt survivors of critical illness.
“It is becoming very clear now, across the world, people who get infected with COVID can have protracted and nagging symptoms for weeks and even months afterwards,” said Dr. Joe Kanter, the interim assistant secretary of the Louisiana Office of Public Health. “Long after the infectious period has ended and, for people who were hospitalized, long after severe illness resolves.”
Most people recover from COVID-19 after a few days or weeks. But early studies suggest 10% have lasting symptoms. A study of 143 hospitalized patients in Italy found about half had fatigue and trouble breathing two months after leaving the hospital.
Young, healthy people can suffer for far longer than even a bad flu, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study found. One in five adults between the ages of 18 and 34 said they didn’t feel back to normal two or three weeks after their diagnosis.
The politicalmedicine people need lined up against a wall...
Thanks to COVID few people living now will live to be 90 years old. /sarc
This “pandemic” is going to be filed under the “madness of crowds” and as the greatest political and economic power grab in the whole history of man.
Well that should have been a red flag right there. He apparently didn't even try to get the cocktail recommended by President Trump. Wouldn't want President Trump to be able to proclaim a victory, now would we.
HerrDoktor FauxiMengele funded the China virus.
Have a friend that has it, over 30 days with ‘low grade fever’. He believes he got it standing in line at a Home Depot for an hour. Which brings me to my point - I believe ‘exposure rate’ is more important than wearing a mask. If you need to spend more than 5 minutes in a store, finish your shopping and come back later - works for me.
Screw this stupid virus. At this point it’s all bullcrap
Go away
Wow we still have people here posting fear articles. They should at least leave a comment when they do.
Cuz nobody believes a word that comes out of any official’s mouth anymore.
It took me 5 weeks to feel strong again from a stomach virus. Maybe we should stay in forever because stomach viruses happen all the time.
When did that become so many cowards in the free world?
Laz posted this eye-opener in April about the multiple ways this bug can kill you.
A few months after I read this article, I searched for one of the doctors and found this doozy about possible long-term effects for patients after they’ve survived the coronavirus. Doctors know now that the disease attacks many systems within the body — from the lungs and heart to the liver and kidneys, says Yale cardiologist Dr. Harlan Krumholz.
Of course, there has been a LOT of hysteria and unnecessary overkill in the response. And yes, the long-run expected case fatality rate of 0.4% is very low, though it is 3x higher than the 0.1% influenza CFR. Vaporizing the service sector wasn't smart.
But I also don't believe this was just a simple flu-like bug, and this was no boating accident.
There’s always an exception isn’t there. Same thing with lottery tickets. If you but them you have a chance to win millions. COVID is like that. Most players are asymptomatic. Some players win a mild fever and a cough. The top prize is a trip to the hospital to be put on a ventilator and possibly die. The people who tell these one-off stories as cautionary tales are hyping extremely rare circumstances as high probability. Sure there’s a chance that for some people with no -Trump-like immune systems will have more issues than people like me. Donald Trump and Chuck Norris.
Sounds like the one year I was sick for 6 months after the flu, I had light case of pneumonia but it was like I was well except for my lungs.
Didn’t clear till I burnt it out with a burning hot diet of spicy food for 3 weeks that would make me sweat a pool of water each time.
Was inspired by Chinese and Thai beliefs in treating lung issues with spicy food.
Just to raise a potential idea. There were a number of articles a few months back about how so many of the sicker virus patients concurrently had Epstein Barr Virus. The articles mentioned they weren’t sure whether the conovirus reactivated EBV or it was indication EBV was possibly part of the mix if this was an engineered virus. I had a reactivation of EBV a few years back after a series of long acting intra articular steroid injections caused some sort of immune system event. Sickest I have ever been for months and I was left with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome which has left me with so many of the symptoms described as part of the coronavirus. I can no longer work it has affected every aspect of my life. The authors of the articles proposed that many of the serious patients would end up with CFS too. Hope not but I wonder if this is the case from this article.
So, it turns out the Wuhan virus behaves like any other virus. I had “Glandular Fever” as a teenager and fifty years on the effects are still with me.
Related study:
Multi-organ impairment in low-risk individuals with long COVID
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.14.20212555v1.full.pdf
This is a bullet list in the article:
“A growing body of research is showing that patients may have cardiac effects, even if they were not sick enough to be hospitalized.
About half of patients admitted to the hospital for COVID-19 had kidney damage, according to a study of 4,000 patients from Mount Sinai Hospital System in New York. Of those, 82% had no prior history of kidney problems.
CT scans of the inside of patients’ lungs show that even asymptomatic people can have lung damage, according to the peer-reviewed journal Nature Medicine.”