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[d000hg]

The public narrative is very much switching to "the young are at risk" but it's important to note this story is talking about what happens once you are admitted to hospital with Covid... the young are very very very unlikely to end up in hospital.

It's interesting when you look at the BBC coverage on the masks issue, I've read "we surveyed people in ..." stories where every single person says they want masks retained in law. Selective reporting in aid of a viewpoint they want to push. Not saying they shouldn't but it is interesting, or at least inneresting.

[SueEllen]

BBC News - Covid: Younger adults still at risk of serious organ damage - study
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-57840825

Younger adults admitted to hospital with Covid are almost as likely to suffer from complications as those over 50 years old, a study has found.

Four in 10 of those between 19 and 49 developed problems with their kidneys, lungs or other organs while treated.
The research looked at 73,197 adults of all ages across 302 UK hospitals in the first wave of Covid in 2020.

"The message is that this is not just a disease of the elderly and frail," said Prof Calum Semple, who led the work.

"The data reinforces the fact that Covid is not flu and we are seeing even young adults coming into hospital suffering significant complications, some of which will require furthering monitoring and potentially further treatment in the future."

.......

Overall, around half of all adult patients suffered a least one complication during their hospital stay. The most common was a kidney injury, followed by lung and heart damage

The highest rates were in those over 50 years old, with 51% reporting at least one problem. But they were also "very common" in younger age groups. Some 37% of 30 to 39 year olds and 44% of 40 to 49 year olds had at least one complication recorded by nurses and medical students involved in the study.

[AtW]

""Long Covid has more than 200 symptoms including hallucinations and tremors

Long Covid has more than 200 symptoms including hallucinations, shingles and the loss of bladder control, a study has found.

A team of academics led by University College London gave a questionnaire to more than 3,700 Covid "long haulers" from 56 countries, with 257 questions asking them to list and describe their symptoms.

The results indicate that there are 203 individual symptoms affecting 10 different organ systems. Fatigue was the most common, followed by post-exertional malaise and brain fog.

The complete list includes visual hallucinations, tremors, itchy skin, changes to the menstrual cycle, sexual dysfunction, heart palpitations, bladder control problems, shingles, memory loss, blurred vision, diarrhoea and tinnitus."

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-h...ine-passports/

[AtW]

Long Covid defies understanding as sufferers despair

Doctors fear ‘tens of thousands’ of people could be afflicted by multiple symptoms

https://www.ft.com/content/ff63cd68-...6-5db3d891eaff

Yeah, who cares as long as night clubs are open and cheap holidays are available

[AtW]

Does protection stop after 5 months?

Vaccines were not tested without social distancing with lots of virus circulating.

It's entirely possible that even mRNA miracle turns into mirage.

[vetran]

The most vulnerable groups were vaccinated first and now their vaccine protection is slowly going away, if virus is everywhere then they will be constantly under attack.

Does protection stop after 5 months?

https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/vaccinations

They are still unsure how long it lasts but six months is the conservative estimate. Mrna vaccines may well last longer.

[AtW]

The most vulnerable groups were vaccinated first and now their vaccine protection is slowly going away, if virus is everywhere then they will be constantly under attack.

[mattster]

Case numbers are so 2020. It's all about the deaths now.

63 dead today. With a two week lag to cases, 100 a day looks baked in by the end of the month, and then who knows? That's a minimum rate of 36,500 largely preventable deaths per year.

[AtW]

Case numbers are so 2020. It's all about the deaths now.

With high prevalence there will be far more opportunities for virus to break through vaccine cover, something that was not tested during trials because social distancing and big fear was present.

[Paralytic]

48k cases today, +16k on last week!

Case numbers are so 2020. It's all about the deaths now.