I guess best thing to do now is to stay out of the hospital :/
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/half-of-patients-hospitalized-with-covid-19-still-experiencing-at-least-one-symptom-two-years-later-study-1.5906249
That's not how it works of course, but long Covid is not pleasant
Two years after being hospitalized with COVID-19, survivors of the virus are still not back at the same level of health as those who never caught it, according to a new study. And half of those patients are still experiencing at least one virus-related symptom, suggesting that long COVID might end up affecting patients for even longer than anticipated. The research, published last week in the scientific journal The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, follows 1,192 patients who were hospitalized with COVID-19 in Jin Yin-tan hospital in Wuhan, China between early January 2020 and late May 2020.
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Of the lingering symptoms that patients described experiencing, the most common were either fatigue or muscle weakness, with 31 per cent reporting that they experienced one or both. On top of that, although patients improved with time, they still reported having worse mental and physical health overall than the general population.
“COVID-19 survivors still had more prevalent symptoms and more problems in pain or discomfort, as well as anxiety or depression, at two years than did controls,” the study stated.
A little under a third of the participants also reported sleep difficulties two years after contracting COVID-19, compared to just 14 per cent of the general population represented by the control group. COVID-19 survivors reported pain or discomfort at more than four times the rate of the control group, and were more than twice as likely to report anxiety or depression. And those with long COVID needed to utilize healthcare more often even two years after having the virus. Around 26 per cent of those who were still experiencing at least one virus-related symptom reported a recent outpatient clinic visit compared to 11 per cent of participants without long COVID.
“To the best of our knowledge, this is the longest longitudinal cohort study of individuals who had survived hospitalisation with COVID-19,” the study stated. "Long COVID symptoms at two years were related to decreased quality of life, lower exercise capacity, abnormal mental health, and increased use of health care after discharge.”
Getting discharged from the hospital also doesn't mean you're in the clear yet either
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/about-11-per-cent-of-admitted-covid-patients-return-to-hospital-or-die-within-30-days-study-1.5904770
A new study offers a closer look at possible factors that may lead to some hospitalized COVID-19 patients being readmitted within a month of discharge.
At roughly nine per cent, researchers say the readmission rate is similar to that seen for other ailments, but socio-economic factors and sex seem to play a bigger role in predicting which patients are most likely to suffer a downturn when sent home. Research published Monday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal looked at 46,412 adults hospitalized for COVID-19 in Alberta and Ontario during the first part of the pandemic. About 18 per cent -- 8,496 patients -- died in hospital between January 2020 and October 2021, which was higher than the norm for other respiratory tract infections.
Among those sent home, about nine per cent returned to hospital within 30 days of leaving, while two per cent died.
Meanwhile North Korea has started to report numbers, 1.4 million cases in 3 days
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/north-korea/
https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/north-korea-reports-another-surge-in-fevers-amid-covid-crisis-1.5906374
North Korea on Tuesday reported another large jump in illnesses believed to be COVID-19 and encouraged good health habits, as a mass outbreak spreads through its unvaccinated population and military officers were deployed to distribute medicine.
State media said the anti-virus headquarters reported another 269,510 people were found with fevers and six had died. That raises North Korea's deaths to 56 after more than 1.48 million people became ill with fever since late April. North Korea lacks test kits to confirm coronavirus infections in large numbers, and the report didn't say how many of the fever cases were COVID-19.
The outbreak is almost certainly greater than the fever tally, considering the lack of tests and resources to monitor and treat the sick. North Korea's virus response comes down to isolating people with symptoms at shelters, and as of Tuesday, at least 663,910 people were in quarantine.
At home, not much improvement yet. My wife has been bed ridden for almost a week, feeling very weak. Our oldest caught it as well, he's home in bed too. I'm the only one left with working taste buds :/ (Youngest recovered and is doing fine, back to school).
So before falling ill as well I did a grocery run, double masked, hangs stinging from sanitizer lol. I'm still feeling fine but don't want to risk spreading it on. Anyway stocked up on lots of 'easy in easy out' food, soups, mac 'n cheese, noodle bowls, soft breads etc. And other essentials, fluids, vitamins, tissues, and so on.
Luckily the weather turned, it's a nice 12c going up to 15c with clear air after yesterday's rain. Good clean fresh air helps a lot for breathing. Windows open, some relief for my wife at least.
Hopefully I can stave off Covid (or skip entirely would be better) long enough for my wife to get well enough to feed the kids when I go down :/ This thing seems unstoppable.
