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Although some studies believe that the toxicity of the new crown virus Olmi kerong variant strain seems to be weakening, in addition to the high-risk elderly group, ordinary people may not be seriously affected even if they are infected with the virus, but an in-depth report published by the Financial Times on August 30, local time, said that people infected with the new crown are more likely to suffer from chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease, stroke, brain atrophy, which in turn increases the burden on the medical system.
The FT article begins with the experience of a British doctor named David Strain. The geriatrician told the newspaper that he had treated a 64-year-old patient infected with the new crown virus six months ago. Dr. Strand's condition was sad when the patient was sent to the hospital again for a stroke 6 months later – in addition to the stroke, he also had signs of dementia and significant damage to his brain.
Coincidentally, on the day he received the patient again, Dr. Strand read a paper published by scholars from prestigious Universities in the United Kingdom, such as Oxford University and Imperial College London, in the internationally renowned academic journal Nature. One of the key findings of the paper was that the scholars surveyed 401 people aged 51 to 81 who recovered from COVID-19 infection and found that these people had significant brain atrophy and a significant decline in cognitive ability after recovering from infection.
This led Dr. Strand to conclude that the impact of COVID-19 on the healthcare system may not pass as people recover, but rather will bring an "epidemiological aftershock" that makes people more susceptible to many other diseases due to the damage caused by the coronavirus to the human body, further threatening the healthcare system that is already under pressure during the pandemic, especially in places with limited medical resources and aging problems.
The Financial Times also mentioned that in fact, last year, Dr. Strand had already discovered that people were more likely to suffer from diseases such as stroke and dementia during the new crown epidemic, but at that time he once thought that this was because the new crown epidemic had just emerged, and people could not seek medical treatment because of the epidemic lockdown, resulting in a backlog of related cases, which led to a sudden increase in these cases. But after the liberalization of epidemic prevention measures in the United Kingdom and other countries this year, he found that the situation did not improve. This worried him.
Not only that, but the Financial Times editors also found through analysis of case data from the UK healthcare system that COVID-19 seems to make people more susceptible to heart disease, and that the trend is "significant". The newspaper's rationale is that during the COVID-19 pandemic, heart disease mortality has increased across multiple age groups, with a 15 percent increase in heart disease mortality among those aged 40 to 64.
The newspaper's findings were also corroborated by Ziyad Al-Aly, an expert at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Two studies he initiated around the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' National Medical Database found that even people who did not have severe symptoms after contracting COVID-19 had a higher risk of developing diseases such as cardiovascular disease, heart failure, stroke, diabetes and other diseases within 1 year of recovery than those who did not have COVID-19, and they were "significantly higher."
Although the Financial Times also quoted the views of some other experts, it is too early to conclude that people who have recovered from covid-19 are more likely to suffer from other diseases, because the relevant findings are based on limited data, and there may be problems such as data errors and misdiagnosis in the early stage of the epidemic, the newspaper said that some medical institutions and health system decision-makers have also begun to adjust medical plans and medical system strategies, facing the new crown is no longer just "headache and foot pain", but began to consider the patient's situation in an all-round way. This includes making more appropriate changes in preventive care.
Finally, it is worth mentioning that the comment area of the Financial Times article has attracted more than 600 comments. However, people seem to quarrel fiercely in the message, and several comments that get more likes are basically against the discovery of this article, believing that the article is inciting "panic" emotions, and some people also ask the newspaper to study the "mental damage" caused by the "epidemic lockdown" to people. In addition, some anti-vaccine "conspiracy theory" groups have also advocated that COVID-19 is not the cause of people's disease, vaccines are the cause, but these statements have also been refuted by many people.