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Inget nytt under solen, du är väl medveten om att
post-viral syndrom fanns även före covid? Här från en artikel hösten 2019:
Post-viral syndrome, or post-viral fatigue, refers to a sense of tiredness and weakness that lingers after a person has fought off a viral infection. It can arise even after common infections, such as the flu.
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/326619
En mans alarmistiska åsikt är bara en mans alarmistiska åsikt. Du kan alltid hitta nån expert som stöder din egen uppfattning.
Jag vet vad post-viralt syndrom är men du verkar inte göra det. Covid tycks ge sådant i uppåt 15 % av fallen och är allvarligt. Även andra virus kan ge post-viralt syndrom, till exempel Ebola. Du kan läsa mer om det i BMJ sept 2022:
The list of infectious diseases linked to long term symptoms includes Ebola, West Nile virus, polio, and Lyme disease. Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is also thought to be a postviral syndrome. While these diseases all have different acute symptoms, the symptoms associated with their post-infection syndromes tend to be remarkably similar: fatigue, neurological impairments, muscle and joint pain, sleep disturbances, and irritability are all common, says Andrew Lloyd, an infectious disease physician at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia (and no relation to Vett Lloyd)—although each acute infection tends to add its own “flavour” or specific symptom.
Och i samma artikel kan du läsa mer om hur forskarna tar detta postvirala syndrom på allvar nu:
And post-infection syndromes are often not taken seriously by doctors, at least at first—something Vett Lloyd is familiar with. Her main area of study is Lyme disease, and post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome (or chronic Lyme) is still a controversial subject in many medical circles. The same was true of long covid, but that soon changed.
“There was a tremendous response from the medical community,” she says. “It went from ‘this is all in your head,’ to ‘this is real,’ to dedicated clinics, the fastest I’ve seen for any post-infection syndrome.”
That was due at least partly to the huge numbers of people affected, with some studies suggesting that as many as half of all covid-19 infections can lead to lingering symptoms.23 Andrew Lloyd expects the actual prevalence of long covid to be more like 10-15%.
https://www.bmj.com/content/378/bmj.o2188
