• paddirn@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Long Covid is so scary, but one thing that worries me is, if you get Covid and you don’t get Long Covid, is that it, you’re never going to get it ever, OR is it just a matter of time before most of us or we’re all eventually suffering from Long Covid over the course of multiple waves? Why is it affecting some people differently than others? I’ve had Covid two or three times now and each time I was only out of it a week or two, otherwise no apparent long-term damage that I’m aware of, but will that always be the case?

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      10 months ago

      It’s not a one-time risk, either. You face these odds every single time you catch the disease. Your risk accumulates. According to a groundbreaking Statistics Canada report, you’re almost three times more likely to develop Long Covid after your third infection. The more times you catch Covid, the more likely you are to come down with a debilitating chronic illness.

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      10 months ago

      Covid messes up your immune system so even if you don’t get long covid, you get other opportunistic infections, plus nice stuff like heart attacks. Of course if you die of such a heart attack, it’s not counted as a covid death. So the damage of covid is way underestimated.

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      10 months ago

      What scares me are those cases where people have psychotic breaks. I read one where a construction worker in a hospital unscrewed some metal bar and started a small rampage. What if that happened to me? I start attacking my family.