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'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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'Long Covid': Why are Some People not Recovering?
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(Score: 2) by HiThere on Monday October 12 2020, @07:36PM (4 children)
It sounds like by "scientists" you mean economists rather than infectious disease specialists. This is defensible, but is also misleading.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 12 2020, @07:59PM
Doesnt look like an economist to me: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Nabarro [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 2) by slinches on Tuesday October 13 2020, @03:46PM (2 children)
Here's the covid-19 pandemic in a nutshell:
Infectious disease expert: We can stop this pandemic if humanity stopped interacting for a couple months. If we do nothing, millions will die.
Economics expert: We can't stop all interactions at once for that long. It would destabilize the economy, collapse the supply chains causing gross food and medical supply and power shortages. Millions will die.
Politicians: Okay, you do one and I'll do the other. That way we each have someone else to blame for the deaths.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Tuesday October 13 2020, @05:03PM (1 child)
There *are* ways to handle it without huge death rates. The countries that have been able to do this have a populace that trusts the government. The easy ways are rather totalitarian (see Vietnam). The more difficult ways still require that the populace be willing to trust the government (see Sweden). Note that Sweden has/had a significantly higher death rate than Vietnam, because of errors earlier in the process. (That's what you expect with a more difficult process.)
Or you can be lucky, and depend on excluding it, like New Zealand. But ALL the successful approaches require that those possibly infected not interact in dangerous ways with others. What's required is a populace that's willing to trust the government, and a government that deserves that trust.
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(Score: 2) by slinches on Tuesday October 13 2020, @05:53PM
You're right. Of course there are better ways to handle it that strike an appropriate balance between health and socio-economic impacts. It would have to evolve over time as new information is learned and could be communicated and would be far more effective if there was a mutual trust between the people and their government. It would also help if the people trusted each other and had a real common bond through their nationality, so that they see each other as neighbors trying to improve their community rather than enemies trying to destroy it.