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With the upcoming winter in the Northern Hemisphere, the infection rate of the new crown epidemic in more and more countries has recently rebounded significantly.
In addition, the continuous changes and evolution of the new coronavirus mutant strains, as well as the long-term symptoms left after infection with the new coronavirus, all remind the world that we should not be careless and underestimate the enemy, new coronavirus has never gone far away.
Singapore, like Europe and the United States, has basically given up its resistance to COVID-19 and is completely flat on the contrary. This gives COVID-19 a chance to mutate and spread wantonly. The impact of the long-term symptoms left after COVID-19 infection gradually appears.
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Latest data, there are about 39,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the United States, 340 deaths, and nearly 3,300 hospitalized cases every week. In fact, experts generally believe that the actual number of infections must be much higher than this, because the official statistics are no longer detailed and many mildly infected people have not been found or reported.
Currently, at least eight Omicron variant strains, including BA.5, BA.4.6, BQ.1.1, BQ.1, BF.7, BA.2.75.2, BA.2.75, BA.4, etc., are transmitted in the United States. According to WHO data, Omicron has more than 300 progeny strains.
Due to the large number of infections, more and more virus variants, more and more people in Europe and the United States suffer from the sequelae of COVID-19, which has also been confirmed by many authoritative reports.
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According to the WHO estimates, 10-20% of people infected with COVID-19 may suffer from the long-term sequelae of COVID-19, including fatigue, dyspnea and cognitive dysfunction.
A survey by the University of Groningen found that about 12.7% of patients infected with the new coronary pneumonia virus at the beginning of the epidemic left long-term sequelae after recovery.
American think tank Brookings Institutional research report shows that about 16 million working-age Americans suffer from the sequelae of COVID-19, of which 2-4 million are unable to work.
According to the report of US CDCh, nearly 20% of new coronary pneumonia infected people still have sequelae after recovery, including fatigue, tachycardia, shortness of breath, cognitive difficulties, chronic pain, sensory dysfunction, muscle weakness, etc.
According to the UK's National Office for Statistics, the number of people infected with the sequelae of the new coronavirus in the UK has exceeded 2.3 million, accounting for about 3.5% of the UK's population.
Data from the Canadian Bureau of Statistics, among those who clearly know or believe they are infected with COVID-19, 14.8% said that the so-called symptoms of COVID-19 occur at least 3 months after the first infection. There are about 1.4 million people with such people. The most common symptoms are fatigue, accounting for nearly 3/4, followed by cough and shortness of breath, accounting for 39%, and brain fog accounts for 33%
Research shows that 30-50% of infected people will experience COVID-19, which lasts on average for 15 months, especially middle-aged and elderly women over 40 years old...
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