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alien_from_Europa t1_ixy4f70 wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in S.Korea's new COVID-19 cases in 50,000 range amid winter resurgence worries by 4inalfantasy

>reporting on cases and keep to death rates?

What's more interesting to me is the number of active Long Covid patients. The data isn't updated nearly as often as general cases or Covid-related deaths. And the numbers, just in the U.S. alone, are scary high:

>Overall, 1 in 13 adults in the U.S. (7.5%) have “long COVID” symptoms, defined as symptoms lasting three or more months after first contracting the virus, and that they didn’t have prior to their COVID-19 infection.

>Older adults are less likely to have long COVID than younger adults.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2022/20220622.htm

It's not talked about nearly enough. For those that don't know about it:

>Long COVID has been described as having the potential to affect nearly every organ system, causing further conditions (sequelae) including respiratory system disorders, nervous system and neurocognitive disorders, mental health disorders, metabolic disorders, cardiovascular disorders, gastrointestinal disorders, musculoskeletal pain, and anemia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_COVID

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[deleted] t1_ixzd0bh wrote

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alien_from_Europa t1_ixzhwzi wrote

>Do I have long covid?

No. The symptoms are only counted after getting a bad case of Covid. Nothing before Covid is counted. Even so, there needs to be a correlation to the virus.

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