At a recent election rally, President Donald Trump said COVID-19 only involved “other troubled seniors in the center” and also affected “virtually anyone. “He used those words to minimize the devastation of this pandemic.
I hope that no one has taken those words to the center and identified them as a cross-rhetoric outside reality. We have surpassed 200,000 deaths in the United States from this virus. This is not the time to diminish our efforts in masking and social estating. Dying. And what other people might not realize is that many of those who have recovered from COVID-19, young and old, end up with debilitating long-term headaches.
The president used these un symbolic words to reinforce the message that other young people don’t want to worry about the virus. Tell the 30-year-olds that we had to intubate and put a fan in my hospital. Tell this to the young, professional who, even after their terrible experience, suffers from post-traumatic tension disorder after spending a month in a medically induced coma and whose muscles have run out to the point that you still want physical treatment to tell you how to walk normally. my fellow pneumologist, who sees several young people recovering from coronavirus, notice that they are recently suffering from asthmatic disease.
Unfortunately, those aren’t rare stories. They happen over and over again across the country. We are still finding headaches caused by the aftermath of the virus and, despite widespread belief, young people may still be inflamed with COVID-19 and want to be hospitalized. much less common compared to adults, however, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recognizes that several hundred young people inflamed by the virus have had to be hospitalized since March.
Even if the president was right to say that only older people with pre-existing situations are affected, isn’t that still horrible?My center backs up when I call members of my circle of relatives to tell them that the one they enjoy will not yet die COVID-19. Although they are old and already sick, they are still someone’s grandfather, grandmother, father, mother or friend.
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Many others need the message that the severity of the virus is exaggerated and that the country deserves to return to its general activities. They gave it to me. It doesn’t seem natural to stay two meters under a mask, we all feel regrets about being able to gather in restaurants and bars or stop by and watch sporting events in person, it was complicated for everyone.
But it would be much more complicated if you or someone you enjoyed has become seriously ill with COVID-19 or if you have persistent debilitating headaches after recovery. If we price life and health, we will have to continue with those precautions until we are sure that we are all of a new infection, perhaps with a reliable vaccine.
This would probably not last several months. Until then, these security measures will be our most productive defense for the protection of virtually everyone.
Dr. Thomas Ken Lew is an assistant clinical professor at Stanford University School of Medicine and an adjunct physician in hospital medicine at Stanford Health Care – ValleyCare. Follow him on Twitter – ThomasLewMD
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