Honestly my Hexbear people won't learn much from this, but this is a good resource to beat libs over the head with.

  • Long COVID is an often debilitating illness that occurs in at least 10% of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infections.

  • At least 65 million individuals worldwide are estimated to have long COVID,

  • ...[occurs in] 10–12% of vaccinated cases

Yes that's right, 10% of vaccinated cases

  • With significant proportions of individuals with long COVID unable to return to work, the scale of newly disabled individuals is contributing to labour shortages.

  • Six months after breakthrough infection, increased risks were observed for cardiovascular conditions, coagulation and haematological conditions, death, fatigue, neurological conditions and pulmonary conditions

  • A higher prevalence of long Covid has been reported in certain ethnicities, including people with Hispanic or Latino heritage. Socio-economic risk factors include lower income and an inability to adequately rest in the early weeks after developing COVID-19

Rich people don't have to give a fuck about COVID

  • Long COVID impacts children of all ages [with symptoms] 2 to 36 times more likely [with children who had COVID]

  • Studies looking at immune dysregulation in individuals with long COVID who had mild acute COVID-19 have found T cell alterations, including exhausted T cells [and other immune reductions]

  • A long-lasting reduction in vascular density, specifically affecting small capillaries, was found in patients with long COVID compared with controls, 18 months after infection.

  • Cardiac MRI studies revealed cardiac impairment in 78% of 100 individuals who had a prior COVID-19 episode

  • 70% of [long COVID] patients had damage to at least one organ and 29% had multi-organ damage... The organ damage experienced by patients with long COVID appears durable

  • ... fatigue was found in 32% and cognitive impairment was found in 22% of patients with COVID-19 at 12 weeks after infection. Cognitive impairments in long COVID are debilitating, at the same magnitude as intoxication at the :ukkk: drink driving limit or 10 years of cognitive ageing

  • Viral persistence in the penile tissue has been documented, as has an increased risk of erectile dysfunction, likely resulting from endothelial dysfunction. In one study, impairments to sperm count, semen volume, motility, sperm morphology and sperm concentration were reported in individuals

:alex-aware:

  • Several imaging studies that included non-hospitalized individuals with long COVID demonstrated pulmonary abnormalities including in air trapping and lung perfusion

  • Few people with long COVID demonstrate full recovery, with one study finding that 85% of patients who had symptoms 2 months after the initial infection reported symptoms 1 year after symptom onset

There's lots of good links to studies if you need to debate libs

    • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      There is still some other stuff that's separate from the gut bacteria, but it's more mild. The virus-riddled gut bacteria were 70% responsible for my long-COVID.

      Perhaps it also resides in other non-bacterial places, or perhaps the antibiotic just couldn't kill everything. After the 70% improvement from antibiotics, I saw incremental changes that just came with time. THIS WAS ONLY POSSIBLE BECAUSE I ISOLATED--if you go outside you will just breathe in more COVID and never recover.

      This October 3 years after March 2020 I recovered 120%, and stayed that way for 2 months, then got reinfected