A recent survey among Quebec healthcare workers demonstrated that the cumulative risk of developing long COVID from an acute infection is 17% and increases with each infection. The estimated prevalence of long COVID in this population was 5.6%. Other research places the global risk as high as 40% among healthcare workers who have contracted an acute SARS-CoV-2 infection.
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Nevertheless, many healthcare workers still don’t believe that long COVID is real, despite dramatically disabling symptoms in people with no preexisting risk factors. “The me before and the me now are such opposites,” said Pinard. “I would swim three mornings a week before going to the office. I was running 40 km. I was traveling every second week. Now I leave my house only every 2-3 months….I was where I was supposed to be [with COVID vaccination]. I was in good health. I wasn’t depressed; I wasn’t anxious.”
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Hulme and other interested parties have tried to help build the infrastructure needed to provide care for patients with long COVID, but they have faced many barriers. Although the condition shares many features with fibromyalgia, myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome, and postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, guidelines for those conditions could not mention long COVID by provincial government decree. “There are many, many political reasons as to why [long COVID] should not become a big deal,” said Hulme. “There are still little pockets of money for research, but they are very small.”

I wrote this post on Friendica yesterday. Its about comparing some aspects of life before #Longcovid with how it is now, written in specific Bulletpoints.

#longcovidawarenessDay #Longcovid #LongCovidAwareness #PostCovid

cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/18748327

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/17033250

I can't get researchers interested, but in the 4+ years I've been working on this myself, the higher the elevation I'm at the better I feel.

Just tried 10k feet for a month and it's better than 8k. If I could try 12k, I would. I did more hiking steps than ever in July, and on steep terrain.

I'm wondering if cells in a hypoxic situation are less useful to the virus we now know* resides in neurons of LC carriers.

I still have ridiculous sinus production at times that tries to drown me, various attacks on my organs, etc.

I remember living in the desert and people were there because a family member had TB and they moved there. Perhaps mountain climate will be recognized as a tonic for LC some day.

If anyone wants help, I'll try, but I'm doing lots of things at once, mostly unchanged.

*https://mastodon.social/@MEActNOW/112455219446314775

@longcovid News in Brief for the week of July 7th
https://www.s4me.info/threads/news-in-brief-july-2024.39237/#post-542972/

For mainstream news about long covid and ME see here

Scores of teachers with “catastrophic” long Covid plan to launch a group legal challenge against the government, claiming pandemic policy failures led to them being infected at work.

But a top barrister representing medics in a similar case warned it would be difficult for teachers to prove they caught coronavirus in the classroom.

Long Covid Educators for Justice (LCEJ) wants compensation from the Department for Education for those who “lost their health, income and employment” after working on the frontline during the pandemic.

For recent Long Covid (and ME) news, check this page out.