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The WHO said about 1 in 10 infections produces Long Covid earlier this year. About 25% are severely ill with it. Since the beginning of the pandemic at least 50
by PaulKeeble 3y ago
The WHO said about 1 in 10 infections produces Long Covid earlier this year. About 25% are severely ill with it. Since the beginning of the pandemic at least 50 different studies of prevalence have been done and many show around 1 in 5 so this isn't a new finding just a particularly large study. Perhaps more concerning is the CDC and NIH studies looking at repeated infections showing that subsequent infections increase the risk, far from gaining immunity people seem to be damaged by every infection and their chance of Long Covid goes up with each infection.
Economically inactive people is growing fast in all of the western nations. Its a disease that is going to have a massive impact in the decades to come and we have no idea how many are unable to catch it. We have no treatments, no understanding of its process and there is little in the way of research funding going forward and most nations have done nothing at all.
- nly 3y agoOr maybe the health of the population in general just isn't very good for many reasons and it's all coming under the "long COVID" umbrella now.