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Almost third of UK Covid hospital patients readmitted within four months

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Re: Almost third of UK Covid hospital patients readmitted within four months

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Post by nickpp »

mdoms wrote: post #66

The only reason you've had to endure this for over a year is because you never once tried to do it properly. 6 weeks of hard (proper) lockdown followed by sensible plans to manage outbreaks and boom you'd have been done. But no, Americans absolutely refuse to work together, to pull in the same direction, to achieve something.

Hey, you know, if you ever get a bad disease, like an infection, here is your solution: just shut down your whole body for a while, completely stopping the blood supply carrying food and oxygen to your bacteria.

Then when all the infecting bacteria are dead, just restart your body again. Easy, no?

Re: Almost third of UK Covid hospital patients readmitted within four months

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Post by dnautics »

mdoms wrote: post #79
dnautics wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

you're also an island. there's a strong multiscalar correlation between being an island and having good covid outcomes. NZ, Taiwan, South Korea (not technically an island, but might as well be), Australia, Japan. And at subnational levels too: The best us state is Hawaii. The best city in the bay area is Alameda.

The lockdown worked, though... We had the virus, then we locked down, then we didn't have the virus. Why didn't you lock down?

you can't say it would have worked. There are places that locked down harder than the US and still fared worse. I'll remind you that the EU had 1.5x the population adjusted mortality of the US, before their immunization shenanigans; and that's despite the US having an irresponsible science-denier president.

Re: Almost third of UK Covid hospital patients readmitted within four months

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Post by a_brawling_boo »

jaybrendansmith wrote: post #43

Long Covid is real. I had a mild case back in August, but it took around 5 months to feel 'normal' again. Lots of inexplicable things: Minor heart palpitations, feeling of 'heaviness' behind my breastbone. When I exercised, even moderately like running a half mile, I would feel strangely exhausted for many hours later. All of this has gone away now, but I can easily see how someone who is hospitalized could have a re…

Thanks for this. I had a mild case in January and have been feeling 'off' in multiple ways including the above. Glad to know there is light at the end of the tunnel.

Re: Almost third of UK Covid hospital patients readmitted within four months

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Post by castis »

ahepp wrote: post #76
mdoms wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We did it in New Zealand.

What's up with people from NZ constantly spamming every post about covid with an "I DoNt uNdErStAnD wHy YoU dIdNt jUsT lOcK dOwN" Absolutely infuriating, look at a map dude inb4 vietnam Yeah, it's landlocked. Great job Vietnam, we should learn from how they did it. Doesn't change the fact that it's a major outlier.

> we should learn from how they did it

Lockdowns and people immediately willing be a part of the contract tracing part.

https://www.businessinsider.com/vietnam-coronavirus-measures...

Re: Almost third of UK Covid hospital patients readmitted within four months

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Post by lifeformed »

dnautics wrote: post #77
mdoms wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We did it in New Zealand.

you're also an island. there's a strong multiscalar correlation between being an island and having good covid outcomes. NZ, Taiwan, South Korea (not technically an island, but might as well be), Australia, Japan. And at subnational levels too: The best us state is Hawaii. The best city in the bay area is Alameda.

How does being an island help? Are America's covid problems primarily caused by infected Mexicans crossing the border? Do the islands you listed not have much air travel?

Re: Almost third of UK Covid hospital patients readmitted within four months

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Post by trickstra »

ahepp wrote: post #76
mdoms wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We did it in New Zealand.

What's up with people from NZ constantly spamming every post about covid with an "I DoNt uNdErStAnD wHy YoU dIdNt jUsT lOcK dOwN" Absolutely infuriating, look at a map dude inb4 vietnam Yeah, it's landlocked. Great job Vietnam, we should learn from how they did it. Doesn't change the fact that it's a major outlier.

Hello from Vietnam.

Lockdowns are not about islands. It helps, kinda, but not completely. Vietnam completely sacrificed the tourist industry, unlike US or Europe. Quarantine is at a designated facility, not at home, unchecked, like in US or Europe. And dissent is suppressed.

The last part is a bit unfortunate, but the former ones are really just a matter of decision. And it works.

Re: Almost third of UK Covid hospital patients readmitted within four months

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Post by guscost »

jaybrendansmith wrote: post #43

Long Covid is real. I had a mild case back in August, but it took around 5 months to feel 'normal' again. Lots of inexplicable things: Minor heart palpitations, feeling of 'heaviness' behind my breastbone. When I exercised, even moderately like running a half mile, I would feel strangely exhausted for many hours later. All of this has gone away now, but I can easily see how someone who is hospitalized could have a re…

This may be unpopular to say, but anxiety could have caused some or all of these symptoms.

Re: Almost third of UK Covid hospital patients readmitted within four months

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Post by pengaru »

twox2 wrote: post #80
pengaru wrote: post #74

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> compared to the hell we've all had to endure for more than a year now Speak for yourself! My life was largely unchanged by covid beyond wearing a facial covering in public which I actually prefer. What a joy to not only walk into banks dressed like a bandit without getting arrested, but to be asked to do it and thanked for cooperating! This certainly hasn't been any sort of hell for me, but catching covid let alone…

Funny, my life even changed for the better in many ways... work from home is wonderful.

Yeah, I ended up getting a shitload of projects done on my property instead of the usual summer vacation. It was probably the better path since I had been procrastinating many of those things for too long already.

Re: Almost third of UK Covid hospital patients readmitted within four months

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Post by mdoms »

dnautics wrote: post #82
mdoms wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The lockdown worked, though... We had the virus, then we locked down, then we didn't have the virus. Why didn't you lock down?

you can't say it would have worked. There are places that locked down harder than the US and still fared worse. I'll remind you that the EU had 1.5x the population adjusted mortality of the US, before their immunization shenanigans; and that's despite the US having an irresponsible science-denier president.

Half a million dead Americans. Fair to say what you're doing didn't work.

Re: Almost third of UK Covid hospital patients readmitted within four months

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Post by morsch »

incrudible wrote: post #40
morsch wrote: post #4

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Four times more often than the control group. Over a mean follow-up of 140 days, nearly a third of individuals who were discharged from hospital after acute covid-19 were readmitted (14 060 of 47 780) and more than 1 in 10 (5875) died after discharge, with these events occurring at rates four and eight times greater, respectively, than in the matched control group. Rates of respiratory disease (P

"Rates of respiratory disease (P I could imagine COVID being causally implicated in respiratory disease or cardiovascular disease, but diabetes? That sounds to me like the control group wasn't representative.

Maybe I'm understanding you wrong, but diabetes is a well-known risk factor for COVID-19.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/need-extra-precaut...

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landia/article/PIIS2213-8...

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