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https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/10/covid-symptoms-medium-term-post-infection-complications/671684/>
"I am still afraid of catching COVID. As a young, healthy, bivalently boosted
physician, I no longer worry that I’ll end up strapped to a ventilator, but it
does seem plausible that even a mild case of the disease could shorten my life,
or leave me with chronic fatigue, breathing trouble, and brain fog. Roughly one
in 10 Americans appears to share my concern, including plenty of doctors. “We
know many devastating symptoms can persist for months,” the physician Ezekiel
Emanuel wrote this past May in The Washington Post. “Like everyone, I want this
pandemic nightmare to be over. But I also desperately fear living a debilitated
life of mental muddle or torpor.”
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Recently, I’ve begun to think that our worries might be better placed. As the
pandemic drags on, data have emerged to clarify the dangers posed by COVID
across the weeks, months, and years that follow an infection. Taken together,
their implications are surprising. Some people’s lives are devastated by long
COVID; they’re trapped with perplexing symptoms that seem to persist
indefinitely. For the majority of vaccinated people, however, the worst
complications will not surface in the early phase of disease, when you’re first
feeling feverish and stuffy, nor can the gravest risks be said to be “long
term.” Rather, they emerge during the middle phase of post-infection, a stretch
that lasts for about 12 weeks after you get sick. This period of time is so
menacing, in fact, that it really ought to have its own, familiar name: medium
COVID."
Via Violet Blue’s
Pandemic Roundup: October 13, 2022
https://www.patreon.com/posts/pandemic-roundup-73246405
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
