Just as they continue to inform us daily about the acute infections of Covid-19, they also inform us about the maximum disease commonly known as “Long Covid”. Also known as “Long Covid”, “Chronic Covid” and “Covid Covid-19”, it was first known in the months following the first wave of the pandemic. Some other people who suffered acute Covid-19 infections as early as March 2020 had persistent problems of fatigue, memory problems, “brain fog”, “breathing”. odor or taste problems and problems for weeks or months after infection. Some of those other people, now more than two years after recovering from their illness, are still living with the effects of a long Covid.
Prolonged covid is now considered a disability under the ADA, or the Americans with Disabilities Act. If symptoms similar to those of prolonged covid have an effect on a user’s daily activities, they are entitled to the “same protections against discrimination as any other user with a disability under the ADA,” according to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights.
Just as other variants have been found with other symptoms and a likelihood of severe illness, we are slowly understanding the risk of prolonged covid based on the variants we have seen so far. A study published in the June 18, 2022 issue of The Lancet assessed the likelihood of a long Covid arising after infection with the delta variant SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) compared to the omicron variant. The work, which was carried out in the UK and supported by the UK Department of Health, used self-reported post-Covid-19 symptoms in which they developed Covid-19 infections, the omicron outbreak, between December 2021 and March 2022, compared to those who developed acute infections, the increase in the delta, between June 2021 and November 2021.
Long Covid is explained as “showing new or persistent symptoms four weeks or more after the onset of acute COVID-19” in this study and other studies and reports. All of the subjects tested had been vaccinated against Covid-19, and the average age of the subjects examined was 53 years old. There were just over 56,000 recorded as a result of omicron infections and just over four 1,000 recorded as a result of delta infections. It was assumed that the variants were omicron or delta according to the time of infection correlated with the prevalent variant in each given era of time.
Among subjects with omicron, 4. 5% described prolonged symptoms of covid, compared to 10. 8% in the delta variant group. The timing of the previous vaccination did not make those differences.
As we continue to be immersed in the sudden rise of omicron, now that subvariants continue to plague much of the world, it is most likely that for a long time Covid will spread more and more. While the overall percentage of long-threatening Covid is a decrease in omicron than in previous outbreaks, the absolute upper absolute number of other people suffering from omicron infections will soon result in a surely greater number of other people suffering from prolonged Covid in the months and even years to come.
The number of other people inflamed with omicron has already exceeded the number of other people inflamed with all the above variants. And while many are experiencing more benign evolutions of the disease, many others are suffering from severe illness and, sadly, many will continue to spread. a long Covid.
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