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re: OMICRON: Scientists Probe Link Between HIV & Variants
Long TERM COVID Could Turn Out to Be a Bigger Problem in THE WORLD Than Excess Deaths
For most people, Covid-19 is a brief and mild disease but some are left struggling with symptoms including lasting fatigue, persistent pain and breathlessness for months.
Leading British experts warn that the virus behaves like an auto-immune disease in some sufferers
BBC / The Telegraph UK, 11 OCT 2020.
The effects of “long Covid” could turn out to be a bigger public health problem than excess deaths, many of Britain’s leading experts has warned.
Prof Tim Spector, the scientist behind Britain’s symptom-tracking app, warned that the virus behaves like an auto-immune disease in some sufferers, affecting multiple parts of the body.
Those suffering with so-called “long Covid” have reported breathlessness, chronic fatigue and brain fog - months after initially falling ill with the virus
Lung Damage
Some 30 per cent of survivors of SARS and MERS experienced persistent physiological impairment and changes suggesting damage and scarring to the lungs. The new NHS guidance warns that such lung disease is also likely to be an important consequence of Covid-19. So far, there have been around 300,000 people in the UK who have tested positive for Covid, which could suggest around 100,000 could suffer lung damage However, limited testing means these numbers are likely to significantly underestimate the scale of disease. Research by King's College London suggests around 3.5 million people have now been infected with Covid-19.
An Array of Long-Term complications
Post-intensive care syndrome is used by medics to describe a combination of persistent physical, cognitive and psychological impairments. NHS England warns that this is present in 56 per cent of ICU patients at 12 months following prolonged ventilation. Around 13,000 Covid patients have so far been treated in ICUs, more than half of whom were ventilated.
Weakness
In general, between 25 and 50 per cent of those discharged from intensive care units are left with “intensive care acquired weakness”. But the guidance warns of anecdotal evidence the figure may be still higher among Covid patients.
NO UK SCIENTISTS NOR SPECIALIST DOCTORS IN ANY OTHER Country in THE WORLD recommend the meds given to US President Trump
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