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Another problem with laissez-faire covid policy

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Another problem with laissez-faire covid policy

Post by TC Talks » Tue Mar 23, 2021 4:37 pm

In places like Florida you probably won't even be able to tell if someone has brain fog. But in the rest of the country some real problems are emerging months after a patient has recovered.

Doing anything you can to prevent infection still needs to be mandatory.
In the fall, after Samar Khan came down with a mild case of Covid-19, she expected to recover and return to her previous energetic life in Chicago. After all, she was just 25, and healthy.

But weeks later, she said, “this weird constellation of symptoms began to set in.”

She had blurred vision encircled with strange halos. She had ringing in her ears, and everything began to smell like cigarettes or Lysol. One leg started to tingle, and her hands would tremble while putting on eyeliner.

She also developed “really intense brain fog,” she said. Trying to concentrate on a call for her job in financial services, she felt as if she had just come out of anesthesia. And during a debate about politics with her husband, Zayd Hayani, “I didn’t remember what I was trying to say or what my stance was,” she said.

By the end of the year, Ms. Khan was referred to a special clinic for Covid-related neurological symptoms at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, which has been evaluating and counseling hundreds of people from across the country who are experiencing similar problems.

Now, the clinic, which sees about 60 new patients a month, in-person and via telemedicine, has published the first study focused on long-term neurological symptoms in people who were never physically sick enough from Covid-19 to need hospitalization, including Ms. Khan.

The study of 100 patients from 21 states, published on Tuesday in The Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, found that 85 percent of them experienced four or more neurological issues like brain fog, headaches, tingling, muscle pain and dizziness.

“We are seeing people who are really highly, highly functional individuals, used to multitasking all the time and being on top of their game, but, all of a sudden, it’s really a struggle for them,” said Dr. Igor J. Koralnik, the chief of neuro-infectious diseases and global neurology at Northwestern Medicine, who oversees the clinic and is the senior author of the study.

The report, in which the average patient age was 43, underscores the emerging understanding that for many people, long Covid can be worse than their initial bouts with the infection, with a stubborn and complex array of symptoms.

This month, a study that analyzed electronic medical records in California found that nearly a third of the people struggling with long Covid symptoms — like shortness of breath, cough and abdominal pain — did not have any signs of illness in the first 10 days after they tested positive for the coronavirus. Surveys by patient-led groups have also found that many Covid survivors with long-term symptoms were never hospitalized for the disease.

In the Northwestern study, many experienced symptoms that fluctuated or persisted for months. Most improved over time, but there was wide variation. “Some people after two months are 95 percent recovered, while some people after nine months are only 10 percent recovered,” said Dr. Koralnik. Five months after contracting the virus, patients estimated, they felt on average only 64 percent recovered.
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Re: Another problem with laissez-faire covid policy

Post by Deleted User 15520 » Tue Mar 23, 2021 10:43 pm

Indeed. The state of Florida is run by absolute mindless fools, whom are making this matter even worse. Oh but... " The Free market will solve" " Behold the invisible hand!" .



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Post by TC Talks » Wed Mar 24, 2021 7:45 am

I wouldn't probably mind if those wanting to be stupid signed a waiver to future services.


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Re: Another problem with laissez-faire covid policy

Post by MotorCityRadioFreak » Wed Mar 24, 2021 8:21 pm

The Republican platform: Biden dogs bad, stair trip funny, believe Q, and cancel culture is bad except for this shit we did in the 90s(Marilyn Manson, abortion boycotts). Did I forget anything?


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Re: Another problem with laissez-faire covid policy

Post by Bryce » Wed Mar 24, 2021 8:28 pm

TC Talks wrote:
Wed Mar 24, 2021 7:45 am
I wouldn't probably mind if those wanting to be stupid signed a waiver to future services.
If I can pay for "future services" what business is it of yours?

That's the real reason you Marxists want a single payer system. Control of the masses.


New York and Chicago were all in with respect to their sanctuary status — until they were hit with the challenge of actually providing sanctuary. In other words, typical liberal hypocrisy.

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Post by Deleted User 15520 » Wed Mar 24, 2021 11:41 pm

The world, you know... that thing outside of The North American continent, to be more exact, over half of The United States doesn't have a clue what goes on in Canada or Mexico. I prefer to use The Term "United States" as American is a continent. So, when I hear the right wing whores howl like a coyote in the night, about "Marxism" and " Communism" most have no clue what they speak of. In other industrialized nations, things such as healthcare are settle matters.

However, here in "Merica" we have our own version of COVID-19 and it's called neo liberalism. Worst then that is, there are people who believe old fools like this:




Pathetic feeble minded voters are reaping what they sow.



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Re: Another problem with laissez-faire covid policy

Post by Rate This » Thu Mar 25, 2021 11:44 am

Bryce wrote:
Wed Mar 24, 2021 8:28 pm
TC Talks wrote:
Wed Mar 24, 2021 7:45 am
I wouldn't probably mind if those wanting to be stupid signed a waiver to future services.
If I can pay for "future services" what business is it of yours?

That's the real reason you Marxists want a single payer system. Control of the masses.
Then pay out of your own pocket. We’ll work it like the Union busting system and call it right to idiocy. But don’t expect to be dying somewhere and get any sympathy after the fact. A single payer health care system is not Marxism. Watching you throw around communism/socialism/Marxism like an ignorant fool is really getting old.



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