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Longer-Lasting “Long Covid” Needs Nobility [1]
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Date: 2022-11-08
Long Covid must seem like solitary confinement with pain. Image by Engin Akyurt from Pixabay
A Scottish study of 96,238 cases shows Long Covid damage lasts longer than previously imagined—after a full year, almost half of covid victims have not fully recovered, and between eight and 11 percent have “not recovered at all” after 12 and even 18 months.
Of 31,486 people who had had symptomatic infections, 1,856 (6%) reported they had not recovered at all on their most recent follow-up questionnaire, and 13,350 (42%) had only partially recovered.
Among the 1,342 people whose infection required hospitalization, 16 percent (217) had not recovered at all, and 59 percent (797) had only partially recovered.
Of those who stayed out of the hospital, five percent had not recovered at all, and 42 percent had only partially recovered.
After a Year, One in 12 “Not Recovered At All”
In a sub-group of 3,744 participants who had symptomatic infections and who also completed questionnaires at both six and 12 months: At six months, 8% had not recovered at all, 47% had partially recovered, and 45% said they’d fully recovered.
Twelve-month results were almost identical to those six-month results. At a full year after having covid, 8% still had not recovered at all, 46% had only partially recovered, and 46% had fully recovered.
Over Half Still Hurting After 18 Months
In a smaller group of 197 covid victims surveyed at both 12 and 18 months: At 12 months, 11% said they’d not recovered at all; 51% said they’d partially recovered; and 39% reported full recovery.
The 18-month results were almost identical to those 12-month results: A year-and-a-half after getting covid, 11% had not recovered at all; 51% had only partially recovered; and 38% were fully recovered.
Devastating People’s Lives & Livelihoods
“The condition is devastating people’s lives and livelihoods,” stated Director General of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who called for world governments to devote “immediate and sustained action equivalent to its scale,” the New York Times reported.
U.S. government estimates have indicated that between 7.7 million and 23 million people in the United States could have Long Covid, according to The Times.
On Nov. 7, 2022, the U.S. CDC reports 97,604,763 confirmed covid cases nationally, and 8% to 11% of that would be 7,808,381 to 10,736,524 Americans with Long Covid lasting at least 12 months and even 18 months and more.
Twelve months sick, 18 months sick? That’s a lot of lost jobs, a lot of lost careers, a lot of evictions, massive misery for a mind-numbing number of Americans with deep depressions, wrecked relationships, and busted bank accounts. Through no fault of their own.
They are the limping wounded—casualties of the covid attack and the great liar. Most are older. Most are women. Most are middle- and lower-income.
Flesh and Bones, Love and Care
Most of them are probably mothers, women who have suffered through pregnancy, agonized in childbirth, and toiled for decades raising children.
They have given their flesh and bones, their love and care, and they deserve help in their time of need.
As do all of us, and that is what society is for, what civilization is for, what humanity holds dear in its finest hours.
We should have more of those hours, more of those weeks.
We should have months and years of nursing covid’s victims back to health, for we will all benefit from that, hold our heads up higher, and feel ourselves stronger, more noble, when these fine Americans rejoin us and lend their once-again capable hands to make a better tomorrow for all of us to enjoy.
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