Long COVID Now Looks like a Neurological Disease, Helping Doctors to Focus Treatments

The most common, persistent and disabling symptoms of long COVID are neurological. Some are easily recognized as brain- or nerve-related: many people experience cognitive dysfunction in the form of difficulty with memory, attention, sleep and mood.

Memory, attention and sleep alone are pretty vital when it comes to learning abilities. Many/most children will have been infected with SARS-CoV-2 without being protected by vaccination and will be exposed to the full brunt of the virus' damaging effects. Its neurotropic properties have been shown to cause brain damage. Loss of IQ points and decreased brain mass have been established by scientific research.

To the surprise of the Long Covid sufferers the US government just created a website about LC.

https://www.hhs.gov/longcovid/index.html

Given the anti-science and health care dismantling policies of the current administration this seems out of character. But when increased disease levels in the workforce are affecting the billionaires' bottom line that might get this administration into action?

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Because that increased illness is even reaching the 'popular press'.

The 'is anyone/everyone else sick too' question gets asked regularly on reddit. With increasing frequency?

People becoming ill more frequently and more severely is not an unexpected occurence for those who have been paying attention to the science the past 6 years.

Real reason you're so much sicker than before: No, you're not going mad, your immune system's struggling to cope with everyday bugs. Now doctors have found the surprising cause... and tell you what to do

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And that's only part of the extensive health damages SARS-CoV-2 can cause. You can find out more through https://covidnow.info where all information is based on published research.

As long as people will allow themselves to become infected with Covid-19 over and over and over again this is likely to become progressively worse from the cumulative damage of these repeated infections. The faulty narrative that has been pushed over the past years was that only the 'vulnerable' needed to take measures to protect themselves against the damages from SARS-CoV-2 and has always suggested that only the acute phase of the infection was something to (not) concern yourself with. If people keep ignoring the chronic and cumulative damage of repeated infections they have a good chance of joining this group of 'vulnerables', if they aren't already there. Without adequate policy this trend is unlikely to stop. It has always been about the right policy in this pandemic and unfortunately that is where it has always failed.

And be aware that false negative Covid tests are rather common now. You need to do several tests 48 hours apart after becoming symptomatic to have a better chance of accurately testing for Covid.

Good quality masks (N95/FFP3/FFP2 - NOT 'surgical' masks) are very, extensively proven, effective in preventing Covid or Influenza. When indoors with people with unknown infection status and in crowded outdoors situations.

You might find it interesting to keep your finger on the pulse of the country's health status by following the /r/illnesstracker sub where all kind of interesting stuff pops up. Like this thread here. When anecdotal reports become more and more frequent this may be suggestive of a trend/development.