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What are the stats on that, especially vs. other severe respiratory diseases? Asking because I've had "long covid" since long before there was a COVID, so eith

What are the stats on that, especially vs. other severe respiratory diseases? Asking because I've had "long covid" since long before there was a COVID, so either everyone's making a bigger deal out of it than necessary, or I'm actually much worse off relative to normal than I thought and I should really be questioning my doctors.

Closi 5y ago
> Asking because I've had "long covid" since long before there was a COVID Well that isn’t “Long Covid” then. Symptoms can come from a variety of causes, and just because you suffered some of the same symptoms unrelated to a Covid infection doesn’t mean that others won’t experience similar symptoms after Covid.
- nitrogen 5y ago
  So what are the percentages of people who will have long-term symptoms from Covid, how does that compare in severity and frequency to other respiratory diseases, and if it wasn't something people cared about before Covid, why do they care now?
  - Closi 5y ago
    > So what are the percentages of people who will have long-term symptoms from Covid Im from the UK, so for rates here see https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/bulletins/prevalenceofongoingsymptomsfollowingcoronaviruscovid19infectionintheuk/1april2021 https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthan... although I’m sure the USA will have their own stats. > how does that compare in severity and frequency to other respiratory diseases I’m not sure and that’s a very wide question, but the main difference is we have never had such a large amount of the population get a respiratory disease so quickly because of the transmissability. > if it wasn't something people cared about before Covid, why do they care now? Some people cared about it before Covid, and now more people care about it because it’s becoming more prevalent with the spread of Covid. I mean to ask the same question - why didn’t people really care about respiratory viruses until about 2 years ago?

Closi 5y ago

> Asking because I've had "long covid" since long before there was a COVID Well that isn’t “Long Covid” then. Symptoms can come from a variety of causes, and just because you suffered some of the same symptoms unrelated to a Covid infection doesn’t mean that others won’t experience similar symptoms after Covid.

nitrogen 5y ago
So what are the percentages of people who will have long-term symptoms from Covid, how does that compare in severity and frequency to other respiratory diseases, and if it wasn't something people cared about before Covid, why do they care now?
- Closi 5y ago
  > So what are the percentages of people who will have long-term symptoms from Covid Im from the UK, so for rates here see https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/bulletins/prevalenceofongoingsymptomsfollowingcoronaviruscovid19infectionintheuk/1april2021 https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthan... although I’m sure the USA will have their own stats. > how does that compare in severity and frequency to other respiratory diseases I’m not sure and that’s a very wide question, but the main difference is we have never had such a large amount of the population get a respiratory disease so quickly because of the transmissability. > if it wasn't something people cared about before Covid, why do they care now? Some people cared about it before Covid, and now more people care about it because it’s becoming more prevalent with the spread of Covid. I mean to ask the same question - why didn’t people really care about respiratory viruses until about 2 years ago?