https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2024/02/06/Why-So-Quiet-Long-COVID/
"Ziyad Al-Aly, one of North America’s top COVID researchers, recently shared a
critical message with the U.S. Senate.
“If we learn one thing from this pandemic, we must recognize that ‘pandemics
disable people’ — that is acute infections can lead to chronic disabling
disease.”
The epidemiologist knows what he is talking about, and his testimony to the
U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labour and Pensions last month
about the long COVID emergency deserves a broad audience.
He reminded the politicians that long COVID can affect the young and old. It
doesn’t care what colour you are. It can follow severe as well as mild disease,
and usually involves multiple organs.
It can disrupt the gut, fog and age the brain with Parkinson’s-like impact,
disable the kidneys, damage the heart and cause chaos in the immune system. The
post-viral condition has more than 200 symptoms. There is no treatment yet.
One of the afflicted eloquently described long COVID this way: “It is a
constant deluge of pain that slowly strips you of everything you used to be by
taking away everything you used to do — daily exercise, going out more nights
than not, seeing friends, attending concerts.”
Al-Aly told the senators, “We don’t go through an earthquake without dealing
with its aftermath. We cannot live through the biggest pandemic of our lives
without dealing with the aftermath. That aftermath is long COVID. We must
address the challenge of long COVID.”"
Via Violet Blue’s
Pandemic Roundup: February 8, 2024
https://www.patreon.com/posts/pandemic-roundup-98087707
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
