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.
2/6
— 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.
4/6
— 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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