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'Microbiologist Siouxsie Wiles and cellular immunologist Anna Brooks say we
still need to be serious about Covid, and now they're most worried about the
long-term health of younger people.
Joining Matt McLean on
Breakfast today, Wiles and Brooks spoke about how the
danger Covid poses is changing.
Although New Zealand is emerging from it's third major wave, the baseline
number of infections remains high - 13,880 cases were reported last week, and
experts have grave concerns about the country not taking infection seriously.
"Whether you've had it before or not," Brooks said it's absolutely serious.
"Every time we get infected we have those risks of long-term impacts, so we
always need to be mindful."
"When the pandemic started, what we saw were the really initial impacts of a
disease for which we had no vaccine and no treatments," Wiles explained. "We
know that is more dangerous for people that are older and people who are
immunocompromised."
With vaccines and antivirals, those people are better protected. But just
getting Covid "increases your risk of all sorts of things - heart attacks,
strokes, you name it, it seems to impact," said Wiles.
"Now, I’m worried about everyone going 'oh it's fine because i'm not likely to
die - I'm young'. You are the ones we're really worried about now because your
life expectancy is now lower because of all these other long term impacts."
"It’s the younger demographic" Wiles said is most at risk, "the 30s to 50s.
That's huge, that's our workforce… there’s no one untouched by this."'
Via Violet Blue’s
Pandemic Roundup: February 2, 2023
https://www.patreon.com/posts/pandemic-roundup-78114114
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
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https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
