The Reality of Living in Australia and Covid

[Idaho]

[Redacted non-PC comment]

[Montanan]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...203b2426442e4e


In May and June, the US Center for Disease Control [CDC] reported the results of two key studies. Using electronic health record (EHR) data, researchers found that one in five people aged 18 to 64 who had tested positive for COVID experienced at least one of 26 conditions tied to long COVID. It was even more common for people aged 65 and over — one in four. The conditions occurred from 30 to 365 days after infection, although these patients who had no record of the identified conditions in the past.

The reported conditions ran the gamut — persistent fatigue and lethargy, rapid heartbeat; shortness of breath; muscle weakness; chronic pain; cognitive difficulties; heart, kidney, and lung issues; depression and other mental health issues.

The second CDC study drew on data from a Census Bureau survey of American adults between June 1 to 13. It yielded similar results: 35 percent who had ever had COVID-19 reported symptoms consistent with long COVID lasting three months or longer. Also, 19 percent reported they were currently experiencing long COVID symptoms. That computes to 7.5 percent or 19.4 million American adults.

A new study from England complements and supplements the CDC’s findings. Reported in the journal Nature Communications, the study looked at ongoing survey data from 48,901 people who ever had COVID, confirmed by PCR tests. Of those, 14 percent reported they had long COVID symptoms.

Yet, a fourth recent study yielded results that have public health experts crossing their fingers. It found that the initial omicron variant appears less likely to trigger long COVID. Reported in Lancet, the study involved close to 100,000 people in England. The researchers found that 4.5 percent of those infected in the omicron period from December 2021 to March 2022 experienced any long COVID symptoms compared to 10.8 percent in the delta period between June and November 2021.

So, while the bottom-line numbers of how many people suffer from long COVID, and for how long, aren’t precisely pinned down yet, these recent studies leave no doubt that the phenomena poses a serious public health problem.

[El Pinguino]

Originally Posted by Montanan

New Zealanders are dying from COVID-19 at record rates as the country battles a new wave of the Omicron strain that is particularly affecting the older population.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/zealand-c...064447359.html

Deaths from the virus reached 151 in the seven days to July 16, compared with 115 in the worst week of the previous wave, in March, according to Health Ministry data. In the latest 24 hours, 26 people died from COVID, all aged over 60, the ministry said in a statement on Friday.

The Omicron BA.5 sub-variant is driving the current wave in New Zealand, which has 5.1 million people. There have been 64,780 active cases in the past seven days, although authorities say many infections are unreported.

That doesn't really tell us much unless they also let us know what the vaccination status of the people dying is.

[RaymondR]

Originally Posted by El Pinguino

That doesn't really tell us much unless they also let us know what the vaccination status of the people dying is.

And it could be that covid is killing older people who may have been killed by flu anyway. It's winter flu season in the southern hemisphere and if New Zealand is having a similar energy crisis as that occurring in Australia and elderly people are less able to afford heating, that could also be a factor.

[chrisr]

Originally Posted by Montanan

New Zealanders are dying from COVID-19 at record rates as the country battles a new wave of the Omicron strain that is particularly affecting the older population.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/zealand-c...064447359.html

Deaths from the virus reached 151 in the seven days to July 16, compared with 115 in the worst week of the previous wave, in March, according to Health Ministry data. In the latest 24 hours, 26 people died from COVID, all aged over 60, the ministry said in a statement on Friday.

The Omicron BA.5 sub-variant is driving the current wave in New Zealand, which has 5.1 million people. There have been 64,780 active cases in the past seven days, although authorities say many infections are unreported.

interesting...

we are transiting through auckland in a few days (on our way to french polynesia). we're fully vac'ed and no entry restrictions. glad we are staying at the airport !

pity there is no mention of death rate between vac'ed and un-vac'ed

cheers,