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Graylight · 51-55, F
Nope. There's a new strain, XE, being watched right now.
But the continuing strains aren't really the issue. We're treating Covid like an acute attack that's conquered and forgotten, but it's turning out that this virus' most deadly effects may be felt long term. Not so much an illness and a disease in effect.
Humans are little more savvy than dogs when it comes to object permanence. If we can't see it, we assume it's not there. But it is. Right now, the estimated prevalence of long Covid across previously infected populations stands at 43%. That's a lot of burden on the healthcare system in the coming months and years. And all those "co-existing conditions" so many liked to blame deaths on? Covid is literally creating them as we speak.
[i]Global Prevalence of Post-Acute Sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC) or Long COVID: A Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review
Chen Chen, Spencer R. Haupert, Lauren Zimmermann, View ORCID ProfileXu Shi, View ORCID ProfileLars G. Fritsche, View ORCID ProfileBhramar Mukherjee
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.11.15.21266377[/i]
But the continuing strains aren't really the issue. We're treating Covid like an acute attack that's conquered and forgotten, but it's turning out that this virus' most deadly effects may be felt long term. Not so much an illness and a disease in effect.
Humans are little more savvy than dogs when it comes to object permanence. If we can't see it, we assume it's not there. But it is. Right now, the estimated prevalence of long Covid across previously infected populations stands at 43%. That's a lot of burden on the healthcare system in the coming months and years. And all those "co-existing conditions" so many liked to blame deaths on? Covid is literally creating them as we speak.
[i]Global Prevalence of Post-Acute Sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC) or Long COVID: A Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review
Chen Chen, Spencer R. Haupert, Lauren Zimmermann, View ORCID ProfileXu Shi, View ORCID ProfileLars G. Fritsche, View ORCID ProfileBhramar Mukherjee
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.11.15.21266377[/i]
