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Old 18th Aug 2020, 13:40
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Originally Posted by dr dre
That isn’t necessarily limited to COVID patients only, it is well known that those who have been infected with influenza suffer long term effects as well:

Long term outcomes in survivors of epidemic Influenza A virus infection

5 Ways the Flu Can Affect Your Health Even After You Feel Better
Even from that article it states that 80000 died all last year from flu. There have already been 175000 in 6 months this year.

Yes the same long term conditions can happen with influenza as well... the kicker is there is a vaccine for influenza there is not and will not be one for Covid for quite some time if ever.

Current cases of Covid are at 22M if the 10-15% is remotely accurate that is 2.2-3.3M of all ages not just the elderly that are going to have problems in life moving on to one degree or another. All this after 6 months.

It is worth keeping up the precautions we have been (not saying it’s all correct, there have been and will be more screw ups) for the moment until we know more.
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