Ziyad Al-Aly, forskaren som länge just varnat för riskerna med reinfektion påpekar nu i en intervju i
Fortune (även på Yahoo) om en ny artikel han och andra publicerat igår i
The Lancet dels att man kan få långtidsbesvär också av influensa men att skillnaden tycks vara att Covid-19 angriper långt flera organ:
"Almost from the start of SARS-CoV-2’s rampage around the globe, researchers and epidemiologists warned that it appeared to behave differently than known viruses, particularly seasonal flu. That included not only COVID-19’s general contagiousness compared to flu viruses, but also its ability to cause clotting problems in the veins and arteries, result in loss of smell and/or taste, and even lead to a rare multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children.
That message was taken more or less seriously, depending on geography and, often, politics. But as a new study makes clear, the warnings have proved darkly prophetic.
The study, a comparative analysis with 18 months of follow-up of hospital admissions for those with COVID-19 and those with seasonal flu, found that COVID-19 patients experienced significantly higher rates of death, healthcare utilization, and adverse health outcomes in most organ systems than did patients with the flu. Its results were published on Dec. 14 in the infectious diseases section of the medical journal The Lancet."
Här är skillnaden Covid-19 och influensa:
"The disease’s enhanced risk list includes everything from cardiac arrest, stroke, chronic kidney disease, and cognitive impairment to mental health and fatigue, two characteristics often associated with long COVID.
By comparison, the seasonal flu was associated with increased risk in only six of the 94 conditions specified. Further, while COVID increased the risks for almost all the organ systems studied, the flu heightened risk primarily for the pulmonary(lung) system. Those findings, Al-Aly says, suggest that 'COVID is really a multi-systemic disease, and flu is more a respiratory virus.'"
Så med andra ord, som också tagits upp i tråden av någon, även influensa kan ge långtidsbesvär. Dock är Covid värre enligt den här studien, och här har vi så den springande punkten antar jag:
Har Al-Aly rätt i följande? Och gäller det även rådande Covid? Tiden får utvisa.
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Clearly, long COVID remains a looming threat. Moreover, research shows that with each successive COVID-19 infection, we roll the dice. One can be young, healthy, and vaccinated, having experienced only mild symptoms during initial infections–then, almost inexplicably, develop long COVID on the next infection."
https://fortune.com/2023/12/14/covid-19-v-flu-more-serious-threat-new-study-health-carolyn-barber/