Year-end party caution
Christmas is coming, and many people's hearts have already flown to go on vacation, and the year-end eating and play-and-play mode is about to begin.
However, Health Canada has warned us before: we are now facing a multi-virus and bacterial attack, and we are in the pre-peak stage, so let's be careful about New Year's gatherings.
Just today (December 19), the World Health Organization (WHO) officially listed the new coronavirus JN.1 variant as a "variant of concern"!
Canada, which is also in North America, is quietly setting off a wave of infection, many of whom are Chinese, and some people have lost their voice! A 15-year-old girl was diagnosed with paralysis of her vocal cords after being diagnosed with the new crown and unfortunately became mute!?
According to the latest WHO announcement, the JN.1 variant is now officially listed as a "strain of concern", posing an additional risk to global public health, but the rating is currently assessed as "low".
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says the rate of JN.1 infections more than doubled nationwide from late November to mid-December. As of December 8, the JN.1 variant has accounted for 15%-29% of the new coronavirus cases in the local area.
While there is no evidence that the variant is more dangerous or deadly, its speed of transmission is clear, especially in the northeastern United States, where it is estimated to be responsible for about one-third of all new cases.
The new crown, which has tormented mankind for more than three years, is still rampant today.
Recently, a special case has attracted the attention of health experts - a 15-year-old girl in Boston, USA, was transferred to the emergency room of a Massachusetts hospital because of symptoms of breathing difficulties two weeks after being infected with the new crown.
After further examination, the doctor found that both of the girl's vocal cords were paralyzed!
After a series of tests, including blood tests, spinal fluid analysis, psychiatric tests, and more, doctors could not find any cause other than the coronavirus.
"It is very unusual for a healthy, young, energetic high school student to suddenly lose an important cranial nerve and be unable to speak or breathe. ”
There was no other way but to cut her trachea open and insert a tube.
According to available reports, adults occasionally see cases of vocal cord paralysis due to COVID infection, but this is the first time it has appeared in adolescents.
Some experts believe that this is because of the inflammation associated with the immune response caused by the new coronavirus, which affects the nerves in the throat.
"Given that the virus is still circulating, any child who has difficulty breathing, speaking, or swallowing after a recent COVID diagnosis should consider it a complication. ”
With the rapid spread of JN.1, the number of new crown infections in Southeast Asian countries such as Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, and the Philippines has surged recently.
The number of COVID infections jumped to 32,000 in the week ended Dec. 2 from about 22,000 in the previous week, with JN.1 cases accounting for 60 per cent, according to Singapore's Ministry of Health.
The number of coronavirus infections in Jakarta, Indonesia's capital, has been on the rise since November, with the Jakarta Health Department confirming two deaths in December, after two consecutive months without deaths.
Malaysia's Covid infections almost doubled in a week: 6,796 in the week to Dec. 2 from 3,626 the previous week.
Canada is no better –
In the past two weeks, many Chinese Canadians on social platforms such as WeChat Moments and Xiaohongshu have shared their "course of illness", and they have not recovered from the fever for 2 weeks in a row, so they have gone online for help.
A Chinese mother just took her child back to China for 1 and a half months, just in time for the domestic mycoplasma pneumonia epidemic, just glad that she had done a good job of protection and was not knocked down, but the child fell ill after 2 days of school, and half of the children in the nursery center were sick!
The child has been shouting that he has a headache, chills, and no appetite, and the first day of taking Tylenol to reduce fever is average, and soon the fever is re-incurred, and the Chinese went to Costco to buy Advil to see the effect, and it is estimated that it will take a week to recover, so that the mother shouted: What kind of virus is this wave in Canada? It is too strong! There are basically no children in kindergartens...
There is a comment from the mother below, saying that her daughter also has exactly the same symptoms, with a high fever of 40-42 degrees for 5 days in a row, and ran to the emergency department + 2 trips to the pediatrician, saying that it was a viral infection, there is no medicine, that is, Tylenol every 4 hours, Advil every 6 hours, just got rid of the fever, but the cough has to wait for 2 weeks.
Someone was infected by the virus that the child brought back from school, and he got sick 3 times in a month...
"The recent wave is so bad that I feel like my child's lungs are about to cough out. ”
"I was infected by my husband, but the symptoms of the two were different, he had a fever, cough, runny nose + no sense of taste, I was alternating between hot and cold, muscle and joint pain, headache + sore throat + nasal congestion, and I couldn't sleep because of the pain. ”
"Our family is all down..."
Some people went to the emergency department and were diagnosed with pneumonia, some people saw a family doctor and said that it was type A influenza, coughed for a week and did not get better, some people collapsed, and the test result was the new crown, and they couldn't get rid of the high fever, and they felt that "everyone was going to burn, and their eyes and ears were burned"
"My whole body hurts, my fingers hurt. ”
"The whole family has been sick all over the place, fever + blade throat + body aches, and my sense of smell and taste has not recovered yet. ”
"I feel that the nerves on my scalp have been burned, and the pain is even more uncomfortable than the previous diagnosis of the new crown. ”
There are Chinese people who have been sick for 10 days, both Chinese and Western medicines have been tried, but it is not good, go to the doctor to get some special anti-inflammatory drugs or antibiotics or something, but people say that you are the fifth patient to have these symptoms today, and I saw more than 10 all of them are colds, and some cough for 2 or 3 weeks, and I didn't prescribe them.
She could only go back to work, and then her vocal cords and throat became swollen at night, and she went to buy Chinese patent medicine until now.
Someone just got the flu vaccine and was hit, and his friends were also hit one after another, and the result was that it was the new crown.
"I started to feel bad on Tuesday afternoon, I was dead on Wednesday, and I tested two bars yesterday. ”
"It's the new crown, I tested it at home several times and it was yin, and I went to the hospital to test it twice and guessed yang. ”
"It's been three weeks! Intermittent fever, going to work to do 2 days off and 3 days off, I want to cry without tears. ”
"I've been 7 days, I can't get out of bed at all, my head is about to explode. ”
Notice that many of them fell ill one after another after attending the pre-holiday party of the school company, and some people went to work and received a notice that the entire office was down and they were all working from home.
"Our office too, after the holiday party, it all collapsed, and I had unprecedented symptoms: drowsiness + extreme weakness, gasping for breath in a shower, and sweating in the middle of the night. ”
"Our office was also swept over, and we finally got burned down and dizzy. ”
Some people have a fever to hallucinate, and they thought that they were unlucky to be targeted by the virus, but when they saw that they were all patients on the Internet, they had no choice but to joke: I was relieved to see that everyone was cold and feverish...
"Coronavirus: I seem to see that I'm too milky, flu: my grandma seems to be waving to me, new crown + flu + mycoplasma: I'm too milky to pull my hand..."
"The new crown is like that big guy, directly turning on our immune system, and then all kinds of viruses and bacteria soldiers begin to attack the city, it watches from the side, and from time to time inserts a kick to make trouble. ”
It's the end of the year, and I hope everyone can take care of their health.