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Yes, I had both long flu and long pneumonia. In both cases it took me about 2 months to fully recover after being officially cured. It annoys me a little that p
by isolli 6y ago
Yes, I had both long flu and long pneumonia. In both cases it took me about 2 months to fully recover after being officially cured. It annoys me a little that people are only now discovering that respiratory illnesses can have long-term effect. How many people know that pneumonia can increase the risk of heart attack?
Personal experience aside, it will be important to put specific numbers on the phenomenon and establish a baseline for comparison to other illnesses. So this announcement of a research effort is good news. I just hope they will put the numbers in context.
- websites2323 6y ago>How many people know that pneumonia can increase the risk of heart attack? To amplify your point, I didn't know this until my father died last month from a series of heart attacks brought on by pneumonia, which itself was caused by COVID. Side note: the cause of death is listed as a heart attack. How many deaths are we not counting because COVID was not the direct cause?
- isolli 6y agoI'm sorry to hear that :(
- stjohnswarts 6y agoI would guess anything that affects your oxygen and damages the lungs (potentially permanently) which produce your oxygen can have long term effects. Some of the patients who have died from covid have lungs that look so horrible they barely look like lungs any longer other than the shape.