Kind of News from Canada but mostly generic. According to a study by a public health body in Quebec, almost 10% of healthcare workers have Long Covid to some degree, with a third of that (so about 3%) having severe symptoms, half (so 5%) for over a year.
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Thousands of healthcare workers affected
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Up to 10% of healthcare workers could be affected by long COVID, reveal preliminary results of a large epidemiological survey by the National Institute of Public Health of Quebec (INSPQ).
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“Of these, a third have severe symptoms and more than half have had symptoms for more than a year,” said Dr. Sara Carazo, epidemiologist at the INSPQ, on Thursday during the first Canadian conference of scope dedicated to long COVID.
This survey was carried out following a mandate from the Quebec Ministry of Health and Social Services (MSSS). A total of 23,000 healthcare workers participated in the survey electronically or by telephone from May to July.
Of those who completed the online survey, 10% reported persistent symptoms for more than three months, referred to as long COVID. As for those who responded by telephone, 6% reported suffering from this post-COVID syndrome.
Taking into account the 400,000 healthcare workers in Quebec, we can estimate that the number of people affected by long COVID is between 24,000 and 40,000.
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Furthermore, 71% have noted that long COVID is impacting their ability to work, and 16% regularly experience difficulty working.
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Some of the most common symptoms include fatigue, shortness of breath, trouble concentrating, memory loss, confusion or brain fog, muscle or joint pain, anxiety, headaches, headaches, insomnia and discomfort after exercise.
The INSPQ team also observed that the more severe the symptoms were during infection with the virus, the higher the risks of developing long COVID. Reinfections are also associated with an increased risk of long COVID.
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The odds of developing long COVID were higher among individuals who contracted COVID-19 early in the pandemic, before the emergence of variants and the availability of vaccines. In fact, 26% of health care workers infected at the start of the pandemic are affected by long COVID, noted D. Carazo .
With the appearance of new variants, this risk decreases to around 12%. However, due to the large number of people infected with these new variants, the number of healthcare workers with long COVID remains high. “Most healthcare workers living with long COVID have been infected since the arrival of Omicron,” says Dr. Carazo.
The numbers are holding up rather well so far. It's about 10% with any noticeable issues and 5% with disabling issues. A number that was called alarmist and fear-mongering. As it says, the odds have lowered since the first strain, but infections are now so commonplace that more are facing those issues, and they are clearly not going down by magic.
And although there are attempts by healthcare workers to make LC into an occupational illness, widespread mass reinfection policies have made it so that infections are just as commonplace in the general public. Thanks to false reassurances from the medical profession that "it's just a cold now". Utter foolishness basically ending the very concept of public health and infectious disease control as we knew it.
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