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SvennoJ on 30 March 2022
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OdinHades said:
Farsala said:


For the rest of us, long covid will be a risk. So sad that we couldn't have contained this pandemic early.

It truly is. While Covid itself didn't have too much of an impact to me, the three vaccine shots might have helped with that, I can't smell or taste since four weeks and I'm beginning to think that won't change ever again. Life feels a lot more empty that way and what really annoys me is that it could have been prevented if people wouldn't be so damn stubborn.

On the other hand, I'm starting to drastically lose weight as I have almost zero interest in eating anything, so that's something I guess.

My wife's sense of smell and taste came back eventually, after about 8 months it slowly started improving. She's still having blood pressure issues but whether that's from suspecting to have had covid (never confirmed was in Februari 2020) or something else we don't know. Doctors still don't have time here.


At first everything smelled bad though, will lose your appetite even more :/ But it did come fully back.



They made it official, next wave is here
https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/ontario-has-entered-the-sixth-covid-19-wave-doctors-say-1.5840183

With access to PCR testing limited, the exact number of Ontarians infected with COVID-19 remains elusive. Using viral signals in wastewater, the province’s science advisory table puts the doubling rate at every 9.6 days.


And yep, the immunocompromised and elderly are double screwed now in flu season

https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/risk-of-death-more-than-doubles-with-covid-19-and-flu-co-infection-study-suggests-1.5839815

Researchers from the University of Edinburgh, University of Liverpool, Leiden University and Imperial College London studied more than 305,000 hospitalized COVID-19 patients and published their findings in The Lancet on Friday. Of the patients studied, nearly 7,000 had respiratory viral co-infections with 227 of these patients simultaneously having seasonal influenza and COVID-19.

According to the study, patients with a co-infection of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, and influenza viruses were four times more likely to need ventilation during their hospital stay. The study also suggested these patients were 2.4 times more likely to die than patients hospitalized with just COVID-19.


At least from those numbers, the risk of co-infection is pretty small. Yet that study was done when the seasonal flu was still held back by all the Covid measures.