Kosuke Yasukawa, a physician and assistant professor at the medical department of Georgetown University, who treats COVID-19 patients.
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Many people suffer greatly from a variety of symptoms for days and days. Some people suffer from side effects, such as malaise, shortness of breath and taste disorders, for months. Please don’t think of it as just a cold.
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HBJ
Exactly. What many of the apathetic people refuse to understand is that the potential long term effects of COVID on the body is very real. Not for everyone of course, some might be lucky and just experience mild cold-like symptoms - but others might not be so lucky.
This is why it's essential to wear a mask in public and get vaccinated. Consider protecting other people and not just oneself.
virusrex
So what? hemorrhagic fevers are neither pathognomonic of any single infection either and are known since prehistory, but that would not make them any less important if people with COVID had them.
Having a new pathogen producing huge amounts of people with this syndrome (with some very specific extra complications) is a huge public health problem and something science deniers are desperately trying to hide using false arguments as yours. People assuming this do not happen or that it is so rare that they would not have to worry about it are mistaken, so the warning is justified.
HBJ
Absolutely.
Far too many people these days are defaulting to denial of an issue because it's easier than educating themselves about something that is extremely complex. Denial, or apathy has become an option because the number of people taking this stance is large, thereby empowering more people to take the flippant approach and feel qualified to argue from that position.
This is not only COVID, but politics, race, sexuality, economics etc. Certain politicians, as well as certain media outlets, haven't helped by giving credence to the ignorant and uninformed, but it really is extremely frustrating when you keep seeing pseudoscience and straight up lies being bandied about backed only by the argument that 'many people are saying it, so there must be something to it'.
Wakarimasen
Thinking it is "not just a cold" is a dumb statement. However thinking it is like the bubonic plague and maximising every adverse data set with the results we have seen of unscientific response and massive social dislocation is also extreme and ridiculous.
Sven Asai
And he hasn’t even told about mid- and long-term effects and organ damages… Yes, it’s very cold for a very long time, when all earlier jump into coffins, compared with pre-pandemic situation and still longer life expectancy. But feel free to further underestimate and ‘live with the virus’. That’s impossible.
ShinkansenCaboose
All autoimmune syndromes do the same thing. Cold. breeeewww
ShinkansenCaboose
The long-hauler polio groups are still affected. That is the human condition.
spinningplates
LOL, May 2020 called...they want their news back!
Matt Hartwell
The long term effects on the brain are what worry me. The rest of it I think can be overcome in time.
bob
There is not a single medical study that supports this BS.
Not one.
Clear cases of psychosomatic responses.
spinningplates
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/coronavirus/covid-long-haulers-long-term-effects-of-covid19
Ya...I'll listen to these guys first...the rest of you just do...whatever.
Strangerland
But I can't imagine having to live the rest of my life with Long Covid. My physical health is one of my top three priorities (family, company, body), and has been since I was in my 20s. I wake up and start the day with a hard round of exercise 6 days a week. I can't imagine having to struggle to do that - it might send me into a depression,
vendingmachinemusic
Actually, there was a Japanese wannabe politician who used the phrase Corona is just a cold as his running slogan. 平塚正幸 is name. Was banned once on twitter for disinformation, made a new account and updated his profile pict.
So unfortunately, someone did and still says it was just a cold.
2020hindsights
bob
Actually there are a number. Just because you haven't found them doesn't mean they aren't out there.
bob
spinningplate - Read that one a while ago. There is not a single thread of evidence that "long - haul" is anything but pre-eisting physical problems and mental illness.
Which is why at the end of the paper, their advice is to see a therapist as well as a Dr.
2020hindsights
bob
Here's one from the Lancet. But I could get a whole lot more. To announce that something doesn't exist is pretty arrogant. To say, I haven't seen it would be what I would expect. Hey, science isn't easy for some people. I get that.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(21)00299-6/fulltext