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>>> an ongoing global pandemic vascular disease that is being systematically ignored by governments, Is that covid (vascular?) or something I have not heard of
by lifeisstillgood 1y ago
>>> an ongoing global pandemic vascular disease that is being systematically ignored by governments,
Is that covid (vascular?) or something I have not heard of ?
- throwway120385 1y agoCOVID is still out there and people still get sick with it and it's still having weird systemic effects in spite of our best efforts to ignore it.
- tartoran 1y agoI think COVID is now considered endemic globally, it's more manageable than it was when it first broke out but it still causes deaths and weird after effects, probably not as many as before but will probably stay with us for some time to come.
- cassepipe 1y agoShouldn't we keep up the vaccination campaigns then ?
- simonw 1y agoYes.
- JKCalhoun 1y agoGot mine recently.
- anonzzzies 1y agoYes
- oezi 1y agoFor elderly people we do, right?
- adastra22 1y agoEveryone should be getting vaccinated.
- oezi 1y agoIn my country they don't recommend additional vaccinations if you already have been vaccinated or been infected (unless risk factor or age).
- marcosdumay 1y agoYes, and it may not be the ideal policy. It may be better to do what we do with the flu, reevaluate the vaccine from time to time, and give the new version to everybody. But also, around here covid seems to be a smaller problem than influenza, by a rate of 2 if you count only deaths. So it's understandable why people don't want to mess with it.
- adastra22 1y agoWhich is what is currently being done in many parts of the world.
- ninalanyon 1y agoWhere in the world do they give the flu vaccine to everyone?
- yencabulator 1y agoThe general public can walk into a grocery store pharmacy in the US, pay nothing (insurance covers it), and get a flu vaccine. So, USA.
- ninalanyon 1y agoWe do here, in Norway. At least for those especially at risk. Do they not do that where you are?
- aredox 1y ago[dead]
- duncancarroll 1y agoIt's Covid. As someone who only recently recovered from Long Covid after a long, arduous 2-year fight, I see his point.
- fragmede 1y agoHow did you do that?
- xg15 1y ago> (vascular?) Not an expert, but from what I understood, SARS-Cov-2 infects cells through the ACE2 receptor that is present in all kinds of different cells along the blood vessels. It's "just" particularly present in the cells inside the lungs, which is why so many Covid patient could not take up enough oxygen anymore. But that somewhat nebulous "long tail" of other Covid symptoms is caused by the virus infecting other cells inside the body. So I guess that technically makes it a vascular and not a respiratory disease.
- baq 1y agoIt’s been well established in 2020 already with Covid toes.
- TacticalCoder 1y ago[dead]
- kristianp 1y agoVascular, perhaps he means heart disease. It is the highest killer.
- anonzzzies 1y agoThat's not ignored, covid is.
- adastra22 1y agoHow is Covid being ignored?