Postacute sequelae of COVID-19 at 2 years


"We built a cohort of 138,818 individuals with SARS-CoV-2 infection and 5,985,227 noninfected control group from the US Department of Veterans Affairs and followed them for 2 years to estimate the risks of death and 80 prespecified postacute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC) according to care setting during the acute phase of infection.

The increased risk of death was not significant beyond 6 months after infection among nonhospitalized but remained significantly elevated through the 2 years in hospitalized individuals. Within the 80 prespecified sequelae, 69% and 35% of them became not significant at 2 years after infection among nonhospitalized and hospitalized individuals, respectively.

Cumulatively at 2 years, PASC contributed 80.4 (95% confidence interval (CI): 71.6–89.6) and 642.8 (95% CI: 596.9–689.3) disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) per 1,000 persons among nonhospitalized and hospitalized individuals; 25.3% (18.9–31.0%) and 21.3% (18.2–24.5%) of the cumulative 2-year DALYs in nonhospitalized and hospitalized were from the second year.

In sum, while risks of many sequelae declined 2 years after infection, the substantial cumulative burden of health loss due to PASC calls for attention to the care needs of people with long-term health effects due to SARS-CoV-2 infection."





https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-023-02521-2

What is particularly interesting about this round of hysterics is that the Democratic politicians who demanded school closures and mRNA mandates for two years are sitting it out. In fact, the hard-core Covidians on Twitter regularly and rightly complain that the White House no longer cares about their plight.

Blue-state governors and the White House have realized that highlighting any uptick in cases will simply draw attention to the failure of the control measures they championed. After all, they can no longer blame Donald Trump (who was last in office about 12 variants ago) for Covid.

Nor do they want to push more mRNA shots, which the public decisively rejected last fall and which clearly do nothing, at best, to stop Omicron infections.

No, the cynical and politically wise move for our fearless Democratic leaders is to move on. Most Americans would rather forget their lockdown cowardice in 2020 and their obscene support of mandatory vaccinations in 2021 anyway.
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Thus the recent shrieking is a true grass-roots (or maybe more accurately Twitter-roots) phenomenon.

At its heart is a small but loud group of very online folks who cannot stand the fact that the world has moved on from Covid. They feel increasingly ostracized over their mask-wearing, whining about ventilation, and demands for never-ending free tests and vaccines.

In reality, almost no one cares enough to judge them, a fact that bothers them even more.
Even worse, many of them are “disabled” as a result of “long Covid” and do not work, giving them even more time to wind each other up. Since 2021, they have desperately hoped for validation for long Covid.

But the $1 billion long Covid research slush fund they convinced the National Institutes of Health to set up is almost gone, with no signs of progress. (It’s hard to solve a disease that exists mostly entirely in the minds of its sufferers when the first rule of research is pretending the disease isn’tsomatic.)

For the long Covidians, illness is ideology - as well as a pocketbook issue. The murkier long Covid is as an illness, the more resistance their disability applications will face.

No accident, then, that the recent warnings often prominently feature the \dangers of long Covid. (Highlighting long Covid also helps gloss over the mildness of Covid itself, a crucial step given that almost everyone has now had the virus and can no longer be terrified with tales of blood clots and sudden death.)
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Meanwhile, though Democratic politicians want nothing to do with Covid 2.0 (3.0?) , their usual allies in the elite media have proven only too willing to amplify the recent Twitter freakouts.
After all, the Times and similar woke outlets don’t have elections to win. They cater to an increasingly narrow slice of the population that includes essentially everyone who is predisposed to believe the worst about long Covid. Not a few of their writers are long Covidians too.

And so the Times, CNN, and the rest have all dutifully reported on the new wave. They haven’t forgotten to mention long Covid, either.
“Every time you get infected, no matter the severity, there is always a chance that you can develop longer-term symptoms,” the Times wrote today in a story about reinfections.
As for what they want?

They want what they’ve wanted from the start of Covid. They want what they always want. They want everyone to be scared. They want free stuff.

Most of all, they want you to listen.

And obey.


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1. Post-acute sequelae of COVID-19, also known as “long COVID,” is used to describe the long-term symptoms that might be experienced
weeks to months after primary infection with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

2. 138,818 individuals with SARS-CoV-2 infection and
5,985,227 control group(VA)

3. followed them for 2 years
to estimate the risks of death and 80 prespecified postacute sequelae

4. the substantial cumulative burden of health loss due to PASC calls for
attention to the
care needs of people with long-term health effects due to SARS-CoV-2 infection.

"Please get another jab, my livelihood is affected if you don't."

If Omicron infection causes more than mild to moderate cold symptoms, you fuked up your health and life a long time ago.

I don't see that quote in the article

The authors conditioned on vaccination status but didn't look at group differences.

Is this just the typical approach where silly stories are constructed as the only possible explanation for someone not toeing the line of the popular narrative?

Or are you saying you want people to get vaccinated?

Nobody cares. Find something useful to do with your life pathetic ****ing loser.

Did your weak, bitch ass friend recover yet?

Fresh new variants dropping soon with Thanksgiving coming up Benny.. Gonna have some turkey with your family this year? Or nah..

A lifetime to flatten the curve...

Bro do you jerk off to the idea of covid? Is that all you think about?

Bruh, he's beyond excited over the idea of a new variant, saying stupid **** like, "Why are you" afraid" of a mask? ".

I've said it before.. covid is the best thing to ever happen to some of these fux.

It's a curious virus

You are a grade a fukken ball gargler aren't you.

I dunno what that is, but I'll take it as a compliment

Just 2 weeks

Some people are addicted to porn, or alcohol.. You ever tried one of those?

More to life than covid bro.It's not.

Agreed!Epic, if true.

Imagine the inside of his studio apt. It probably looks like the office of one of those detectives trying to solve the murders of a mass serial killer from 30 years ago...

Stoolie will be back, that dip**** who wears a horse on his head will post more often.

I dunno, mane.

That seems more along the lines of trying to find the link between vaccines, Gates, Epstein, CIA, FBI, all media (except bitchute and rumble), every scientific journal, all but 0.01% of physicians, whoever else the misc doesn't like and every death, everywhere, since Jan 2021.

Thumbtacks

Yarn

Screenshots of bar charts from Twitter

Substack posts printed and stacked to the ceiling

So was MonkeyPox, strange, it only seemed to effect male homos, a few pets and two children.......

Good job tracking it?

Hmmmmmmm...... Sores around the mouth and anus VS the sniffles and a cough.......

Assume it pays more than flipping donuts at Tim Hortons.