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Influenza can trigger numerous issues. My mother ended up on anti-seizure tablets after the last flu outbreak having spent five days in intensive care. The f
by neilwilson 5y ago
Influenza can trigger numerous issues.
My mother ended up on anti-seizure tablets after the last flu outbreak having spent five days in intensive care.
The flu brought on a fit and hypo-natremia. It took months before she could walk properly again.
Our success against infectious diseases has left a generation or two with insufficient fear of them.
I’ve seen people catch a bad cold on Wednesday and be dead from pneumonia on Sunday.
The impact from Covid isn’t new. It’s just a rediscovery of why we spent the twentieth century on an all out war against infectious diseases and septicaemia.
- VortexDream 5y agoMaybe. However, the rates at which I'm seeing long Covid seem entirely novel. Something like 30% of all cases in a recent study show signs of it, including mild cases. I admit there are overlaps in fatigue syndrome (and should've phrased my original comment differently), but AFAIK we've usually only seen that in severe infections with other diseases while we're seeing abnormally high rates of (to varying degrees) cognitive impairment even in mild or asymptomatic Covid infections.