Are we ignoring the dangerous effects of Long Covid?
Rampant: the Covid-19 virus is once again on the loose across the UK because the Tories haven’t just lost control; they’ve deliberately thrown it away.
Apparently we should be concerned about excess mortality and declining life expectancy, in young people, that is attributable to Covid-19.
This is to do with Long Covid; apparently there may be a large number of youngsters disabled by Covid, or suffering vascular disease, or dying, in the months after suffering acute Covid.
Here’s epidemiologist Colin Furness:
Until Omicron, our frame was a respiratory virus that infected & killed rapidly.
Low population immunity and limited understanding of what the virus does to the body, meant that incidence rate, ICU capacity, and deaths told us when things were better or worse.
Not now.
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— Colin Furness MISt PhD MPH (@FurnessColin) December 17, 2023
By reporting deaths and hospitalizations data, COVID continues to get framed as a problem only for really vulnerable people. "Just like flu". :(
So, no masking, no precautions, low XBB vaccination, and no thoughts about COVID harms. Politicians may like this but I don't.
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— Colin Furness MISt PhD MPH (@FurnessColin) December 17, 2023
Who is going bother with indoor air quality when the media focuses on what COVID isn't doing, instead of talking about what it IS doing?
There is a lot of Long COVID research coming out. Don't let it gather dust on the shelf. This is too important to be incurious.
Please.
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— Colin Furness MISt PhD MPH (@FurnessColin) December 17, 2023
It’s an interesting question because This Writer doesn’t think it has been asked: what is Covid-19 doing to us now?
And will we be able to find out?
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It’s not ‘we are ignoring the dangerous effects of long covid’ but fact the fascist tories are ignoring this public health disaster because it isn’t in their interests to investigate ‘this hidden epidemic!’
Fascist tories have never put the health and well being of us ordinary citizens first because their sole focus has always been on ‘how we fascist tories can further exploit/dehumanise and blame those lazy plebs!’ So life expectancy is being reduced but hey it only affects certain groups of people – not the wealthy fascist tories!
Anyone suffering from long covid is according to the fascist tories – ‘a lazy scrounger who fakes their disabilities and must be forced to work for a pittance because this is how the fascist tories increase their wealth and power!
No reaction to my attempted comments. I’m disappointed in you, Mike.
I have a backlog of comments and am working back through them now. Complaining about me not seeing or responding to particular comments generally encourages me to put them at the bottom of the pile.