Why Covid-19 Is Here to Stay, and Why You Shouldn't Worry About It

Re:Why Covid-19 Is Here to Stay, and Why You Shouldn't Worry... by taylorlapeyre on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @02:44PM (#28213365)

This doesn't mention long covid, which is still a huge open question with worrying results: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5...

> People who had recovered from COVID-19, including those no longer reporting symptoms, exhibited significant cognitive deficits versus controls when controlling for age, gender, education level, income, racial-ethnic group, pre-existing medical disorders, tiredness, depression and anxiety. The deficits were of substantial effect size for people who had been hospitalised (N = 192), but also for non-hospitalised cases who had biological confirmation of COVID-19 infection (N = 326). Analysing markers of premorbid intelligence did not support these differences being present prior to infection. Finer grained analysis of performance across sub-tests supported the hypothesis that COVID-19 has a multi-domain impact on human cognition.

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Re:Why Covid-19 Is Here to Stay, and Why You Shouldn't Worry... by nradov on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @03:22PM (#28213772)

What do you think we would find if we repeated the same research for patients who had been infected with influenza, RSV, coxsackievirus, mononucleosis, HCoV-OC43, etc.?

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Re:Why Covid-19 Is Here to Stay, and Why You Shouldn't Worry... by stolenmerch on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @03:43PM (#28213988)

This isn't totally surprising and has been studied previously with other respiratory illnesses. [1] There is also a correlation with severity of symptoms as shown in this paper and other cited sources. I'm not going to speculate too much, but one would hope that as severe cases decline, so too should these cases of "long covid".

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31718695/

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Re:Why Covid-19 Is Here to Stay, and Why You Shouldn't Worry... by JohnTHaller on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @04:06PM (#28214238)

I have two friends under 40 on beta blockers due to long haul Covid-19 symptoms. Another friend who had a stroke after infection. Lots of other less serious long terms affects among friends and family. My sense of smell is still broken a year and a half after recovery.

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Re:Why Covid-19 Is Here to Stay, and Why You Shouldn't Worry... by derbOac on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @03:44PM (#28214000)

I agree it's not getting nearly as much attention as it should in policy discussions (which the linked piece essentially is). Too much is focused on infection per se, hospitalization, and death, as if those are the only three outcomes to care about.

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Re:Why Covid-19 Is Here to Stay, and Why You Shouldn't Worry... by mrfusion on Thursday August 19, 2021 @12:40PM (#28236032)

Do we know if this is different than people hospitalized with other viruses? It’s just common sense that if you get a serious illness there can be long term effects.

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Re:Why Covid-19 Is Here to Stay, and Why You Shouldn't Worry... by _Algernon_ on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @03:42PM (#28213983)

Are there any studies yet that say something about the risks of long covid when vaccinated?

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Re:Why Covid-19 Is Here to Stay, and Why You Shouldn't Worry... by tim333 on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @10:55AM (#28221872)

Not much but one in Israel followed 1,497 fully vaccinated health care workers. 39 got covid, 7 had symptoms 6 weeks in.

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Re:Why Covid-19 Is Here to Stay, and Why You Shouldn't Worry... by tailius on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @03:32PM (#28213875)

Florida took the approach of "people will get it. (shrugs)" and look what happened. LC has been associated with permanent organ damage. I think that's a reason to worry because of the disability adjusted life years (DALY) involved.

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