by Snowball »
17 Sep 2020 20:51
Mid Sussex Royal Snowball I am waiting for the first pro-footballer (or his club) to admit a player
can't play due to Long Covid. 15% of people surviving Covid are developing
Long-Covid. There must be some players seriously under par.
Can anyone think of any "missing" names?
Are you seriously suggesting 15% are getting Long Covid when 3000+ are testing positive a day atm? And that's only those who have tested??
That can't be right
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According to the papers I read, yes. It was 10% but has risen to 15%
The Health Minister in Parliament said (if I remember rightly) that 360,00 people have been sick more than a month, 150,000 longer and (I think it was) 80,000 UK citizens were still sick after 3 months.
I'm in a support forum with 20,000 others.
I wouldn't' mind betting that eventually many millions (in the UK) will have had degrees of Long-Covid
If the figure I read is right 15%, and eventually 80% get Covid, however mild, that's 8 MILLION people with long-term illness and probably taking a lot of time of work. This excludes those who die of the illness.
I've just finished reading a very interesting book (No 3) on the Spanish Flu, PALE RIDER (Laura Spinney) which speaks of survivors who had extreme hallucinations. Loads of reports of these among Long Covid sufferers, esp early morning. Most have had extreme dreams and terrible insomnia for MONTHS (me included).
Those Spanish Flu-ees who spoke honestly about the hallucinations were treated as incurable schizophrenics and banged up "for life"... except that up to five years later they had been "miraculously cured of their life-long incurable mental illness." and released.
Well worth a read. There was a similar pattern to the after-effects of Spanish Flu as we are seeing now.
It is beginning to seem that Long Covid sufferers often didn't have a severe Covid fortnight