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'Long Covid': Why are Some People not Recovering?

posted by Fnord666 on Monday October 12 2020, @02:59PM   Printer-friendly

takyon writes:

'Long Covid': Why are some people not recovering?

For most people, Covid-19 is a brief and mild disease but some are left struggling with symptoms including lasting fatigue, persistent pain and breathlessness for months.

The condition known as "long Covid" is having a debilitating effect on people's lives, and stories of being left exhausted after even a short walk are now common.

So far, the focus has been on saving lives during the pandemic, but there is now a growing recognition that people are facing long-term consequences of a Covid infection.

Yet even basic questions - such as why people get long Covid or whether everyone will fully recover - are riddled with uncertainty.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 12 2020, @04:25PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 12 2020, @04:25PM (#1063596)

    Of 50 patients treated with calcifediol, one required admission to the ICU (2%), while of 26 untreated patients, 13 required admission (50 %) p value X2 Fischer test p < 0.001. Univariate Risk Estimate Odds Ratio for ICU in patients with Calcifediol treatment versus without Calcifediol treatment: 0.02 (95 %CI 0.002−0.17). Multivariate Risk Estimate Odds Ratio for ICU in patients with Calcifediol treatment vs Without Calcifediol treatment ICU (adjusting by Hypertension and T2DM): 0.03 (95 %CI: 0.003-0.25). Of the patients treated with calcifediol, none died, and all were discharged, without complications. The 13 patients not treated with calcifediol, who were not admitted to the ICU, were discharged. Of the 13 patients admitted to the ICU, two died and the remaining 11 were discharged.

    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960076020302764 [sciencedirect.com]

    Here is another recent observational study confirming vitamin D deficiency is common in covid patients:
    https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.05.20206706v1 [medrxiv.org]

    There are dozens of papers on that you can easily search on pubmed.

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