Long Covid

[Canary42]

1 in 5 who have had Covid-19 suffer from Long Covid according to latest survey. So surely this is another reason vaccination is so important. Unless long-term side effects figures are greater of course.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-56601911

[emmie]

the only one i know on here who has it is Minty, and she has been suffering with it for at least a year. She had her first jab last week.

[youngmafbog]

I'm suspicious of that 20% figure. Like with reported vaccine side effects many will simply be coincidence. It's also a "suggests".

As for the vaccination link you make I'm not sure it will have anything to do with it. After all most dont catch covid anyway.

[tiggerblue10]

There seems to be different levels of long covid. Kate Garraway's husband appears to be suffering one of the worst cases.

[Buenchico]

>>> After all most dont catch covid anyway

Roughly one in six people in the UK have had Covid-19, Youngmafbog. That might not be 'most' bit it's not exactly negligible either, surely?

[pixie374]

Post viral syndrome is common with any virus- it isn't specific to covid.

[fender62]

can some lasting symptoms to be proven, as im wondering if some are players who do not want to go back to work, and any long term unemployed who caught it, obviously do not want to work at all.
im not saying some are not honest, i bet some are working the system.

[ummmm]

I think I've had it/got it. My test is in the post. It'll probably come back negative now as most of the symptoms have cleared up. It's been 6 weeks now.

[Dagman]

I had covid last August, since then I have suffered constant tinnitus, a cold runny nose and insomnia. Luck of the draw! I used to have mild low tinnitus in one ear but now both ears high pitched much louder, never had these problems before covid.

[Peter Pedant]

I saw the health broadcast with Rebecca someone and thought I had sent her this link and demanded she read it
perhaps someone else did

Long Covid has a meaning and cant take on the idea of "it is what I say it is" because that way you dont know what the other people are referring to. She had started off with - - lots of people say they have long covid

BMJ webinar on covid and vaccines

31 Mar 2021 - 1600 BST and it is here
I am not sure if there is a take home message - but I thought that once you had waited 12 weeks ( Beeb fluff put a shorter time on it) then 20% of those who said they had it - - - actually qualified

[Peter Pedant]

god it is a long watch
2 hrs
but by golly you kn ow alot about covid at the end!

[Peter Pedant]

another damned long review - god dont they scribble scribble scribble here ( thx to George III and Mr Gibbon)
https://evidence.nihr.ac.uk/themedreview/living-with-covid19-second-review/

NIHR gets moolah from the govt

[jourdain2]

I would like to support pixie, 14.09. P.V.S. is not specific to Covid. I had it in the late 1990s - started with a virus on Nov. 5th, went back to school a week later, caught another one etc.... I was off work until nearly Easter and it was horrible. To get to the kitchen to make a coffee took about 45 mins. -- going upstairs to the loo was a hands and knees job. It is definitely not just due to Covid.

[bobbinwales]

//Roughly one in six people in the UK have had Covid-19//
Assuming thats right Buenchico (sounds about right to me) its quite a lot isnt it for a virus thats been around for little more than year, and that doesnt presumably include the 120000 plus who died within 28 days of a posative covid test, and its despite all the lockdowns and social distancing and masks.

[Peter Pedant]

4 m cases in a population 60 m is 6% innit?