Chicago Blackhawks center Jonathan Toews has been off the ice long enough, after playing his final National Hockey League (NHL) game on Jan. 28. And now it looks like he’s going to put his game on the ice longer. Toews, 34, announced today that he’s having a long struggle with something that’s lasted a long time: long Covid.
Yes, Toews has a lot of Covid, do you know that some politicians and personalities are left claiming that it does not exist?Well, what happened to Toews, the captain of the Blackhawks, deserves to be a real shock. He hasn’t even trained with his team since thenon the fifth of February and explained his absence as follows: “First of all, thank you to the enthusiasts and everyone who has been involved in my absence. I am still suffering from the symptoms of Long Covid and chronic immune reaction syndrome. It was actually hard to play through those symptoms. Over the past few weeks, I’ve reached the point where I still don’t have the option to step back and focus on my health. The Chicago Blackhawks included Toews’ full in a tweet:
It’s unclear how many other people suffer from covid every day because the U. S. government is not saying it’s going to be a new one. UU. no has told those things. And as you probably learned in kindergarten, when you don’t count something, you don’t know how many there are. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), studies have suggested that around 10-20% of other people who have had severe infections from coronavirus acute respiratory syndrome 2 (SARS-CoV-2) could have ended up with a long Covid. So even if the threat of hospitalization and death from covid-19 is rarely as high as it has been over the past two years, you may need to freeze those ill-timed declarations of the end of the pandemic until there is more clarity. long symbol of Covid.
The WHO defines prolonged Covid, also known as the post-Covid-19 condition, as “the continuation or progression of new symptoms 3 months after initial infection with SARS-CoV-2, symptoms lasting at least 2 months without further ado”. explanation. So if you stick to that definition, Toews probably had symptoms for at least two months. Toews did not mention in particular the duration of the Covid symptoms he had. The list of imaginable symptoms is long, really long. There are more than two hundred other symptoms imaginable. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) lists some long, non-unusual Covid symptoms that are classified into general symptom categories, such as life-changing fatigue and fever, breathing, and cardiac symptoms such as shortness of breath, cough, chest pain, and abnormal disorders. Heart rhythms, neurological symptoms such as “brain fog,” headaches, sleep problems, feelings of laughter and adjustments in smell or taste, depression or anxiety, and digestive disorders. e symptoms such as diarrhea and abdominal pain.
As it turns out, the long Covid will at least temporarily derail Toews’ ice hockey career, a career that has been quite an illustrious one since he was decided as the third pick in the 2006 NHL Draft. It took him just two years to become captain. of the Blackhawks and only 4 years to be named MVP of the 2010 Stanley Cup playoffs and the Conn Smythe Trophy. It was the first time he helped the Blackhawks win the title. Yes, I said the first time. He enjoyed doing it so much that he did it twice more in 2013 and 2015. Toews also won the NHL’s Mark Messier Leadership Award in 2015. This season hasn’t been bad at all, as Toews has tallied 14 goals and 14 assists in 46 games. . But he’ll probably have to wait a while before adding those figures.
You may have seen some other term in Toews’ ad: chronic immune reaction syndrome. This isn’t the first time Toews has talked about that term. After missing the entire 2020-21 NHL season, Toews posted the following tweet with a video in June. 30, 2021:
In the video, he explained, “I think there’s a lot of stuff that piled up where my frame collapsed. “He went on to say, “So they call it chronic immune reaction syndrome, where I just couldn’t recover quite a bit and my immune formula would react to everything I was doing, any kind of tension, everything I did during the day. It was some kind of tension reaction.
Now, the search for “chronic immune reaction syndrome” on PubMed returns the following answer: “Quoted word not discovered in sentence index: “chronic immune reaction syndrome. ” This is not the kind of response you get when you attach medical or clinical terms. It’s still a bit of a nebulous term. Although clinical studies have known many other conditions in which your immune formula does not work as well or even overreacts to external stimuli, there still do not seem to be enough well-constructed, peer-reviewed clinical studies to more clearly describe what exactly is “chronic. “disease” is. immune reaction syndrome” or how such a condition deserves to be better managed. So, for now, classify “chronic immune reaction syndrome” in the category “needs more clinical studies to delineate and characterize. “
Unfortunately, Toews would possibly have a long way to go. It is not yet known how long the other Covid symptoms tend to persist. The long and short is that many political leaders don’t seem to care about the “record. “Instead, they seem to be looking to check the entire reaction to the Covid-19 pandemic and act as if the pandemic is over. Of course, no valid public health authority has declared that the pandemic is over. noticed with Covid so far is possibly just the tip of the iceberg.
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