Corona causes significant health damage even long after infection

We are at a critical point in time in dealing with the corona plague, and it is precisely time to change attitudes and understand how the corona affects us in the long run (and it affects, very much), and how to deal with it

Dr. Erel Boczynski

17/02/2022

Thursday, February 17, 2022, 5:00 p.m.

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In the video: The corona projector refers to infection with the new corona strain (Photo: GPO)

The point in time where we are today is the beginning of a new era in the history of the corona plague, a significant crossroads where many of us ask: the corona and we, where?

Will we live next to the plague?

Will we live as if there is no epidemic?

Questions that each of us asks himself, has formulated clear positions and feelings about, and a bit like religious belief, political outlook or a beloved football team - it is hard to convince him otherwise.

As many times, here too the solution is a combination of balances and proportionate steps, a balance that is halfway between the crippling fear in early 2020 of a “virus that will wipe out humanity” and the completion and indifference of “Open It All and After the Flood” of 2022.

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The main thing common to these two approaches is the principle of "man to man", whereas to overcome events from two such world orders, the path is the exact opposite - together, in partnership of destiny, in social solidarity, and in a united leadership led by good faith. According to established information, conscience and morality.

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Thus, in addition to the current plague of the plague - which we all recognize as morbidity and mortality on the one hand, and damage to the routine of life, economy and education on the other - the And it becomes clear that corona causes significant health damage even long after infection.

Even those who are slightly at risk for serious consequences in the future

For example, a huge study published this month in Nature Medicine (a follow-up of about 150,000 corona patients, and about 11 million critical cases) found that those who developed Covid-19 were at higher risk for cardiac, cerebral, and arrhythmias. Inflammation of the membrane and myocardium, heart failure and thromboembolic events ("blood clots").

Given the number of corona patients in the world, this could have far-reaching and profound implications for public health.

The study found that the risk was higher the more severe the disease, but - and this is important - even those who were not hospitalized and had only a mild illness are at increased risk.

And this is also important - the increased risk existed in those who did not have heart disease before the corona and also regardless of age and other risk factors.

The increased risk also existed in those who did not have heart disease before the corona.

Woman Holding Chest (Photo: ShutterStock, Creative Cat Studio)

Although like any study, this study is not perfect, but it contains a lot of scientific truth - it contains a large, statistically significant sample, strengthens biological logic and what we know from previous studies and much can be deduced from it about the virus and what awaits us in the future.

Therefore, long-term effects are something to consider when allowing the virus to enter re-infection waves, because the consequences of these waves may be seen in many years even if the epidemic passes from the world.

The long-term health implications of the corona should also be taken into account in the future development and building plans of the world health systems.

This severe health crisis needs to start shifting tectonic plates in the healthcare world and a golden opportunity, which will not come back soon in order to make the corrections, that every company needs to make regarding its healthcare services.

We do not want to see our health system collapse.

Corona Department (Photo: Reuven Castro)

It is the plague that drives us and not the other way around.

Dr. Erel Boczynski (Photo: Amit Artman)

We have all seen the collapse of systems in Western countries like Italy and the US and even if we hope that Israel does not have to see similar sights soon, it is not known what the next wave, a new variant or a completely different global epidemic will bring, and since it will come sooner or later To her and to no extreme scenarios, which may bring with it so that we can all live next to the plague and not collapse beneath it

. , It seems quite clear that in the last two years the epidemic is what is driving us and not the other way around.

The factor that changes the rules of the game is in creating the public health system and turning it into the same system in the future, which we were so proud of in the past and a little withered before our eyes.

This means adding standards, strengthening staff, adding hospital beds and emphasizing inpatient and intensive care, strengthening emergency medicine departments, the home hospitalization system and community medicine.

After all, we will benefit from all of these even on weekdays and not just in emergencies.

In addition, preparations can be made for the preparation of the education system for hybrid learning, the preparation of the employment system for part-time work where possible, constant assessments in terms of purchase and stock of medicines, vaccines and equipment, legislation that allows people at risk to continue working without compromising wages, setting ventilation standards in public places. The international gateway to Israel and the establishment of a single independent body, which will include all arms and civilian and military bodies during such a huge crisis, will guide the forces on the ground and implement the policy, which will be determined by the government at the macro level.

We must all manage our personal risk smarter

And until then, what can each and every one of us do at the micro level?

We must all manage our personal risk smarter.

The risk in the present and that in the future.

The data prove beyond any doubt that the virus is dangerous to us in the present, causing morbidity and mortality (especially those with risk factors, but really not only), and as mentioned we may be dangerous in the future with long-term complications (risk we know from other viruses that cause later complications such as Measles, papilloma, hepatitis C and EBV).

Based on the data collected so far and our understanding of the biology of the viruses, it would be reasonable and correct to assume at this point, that corona virus can also cause long-term complications.

There is actually a solution to this.

Corona vaccine (Photo: Reuven Castro)

The amazing thing, is that against these immediate and future risks, there is one simple solution.

Vaccine.

A solution that has been shown to reduce infection, morbidity and mortality.

And no less amazing, this solution is completely safe, and is not found to be associated with long-term complications like all vaccines we know - all are completely safe and none of them cause long-term complications.

And like other vaccines its side effects are minor, local and transient.

Show me one, who prefers to connect to Acmo or Respirator over two days of headaches and transient arm pain.

Since the vaccine has been shown to reduce severe morbidity and the latter has been proven to be associated with long-term complications of the virus, it would be appropriate at this time to assume that the vaccine itself reduces long-term complications of the virus until sufficient data is accumulated over a sufficient period of time. Teach, that this is what will probably happen).

Each of us has an impact on the entire system

It is also a fascinating point in history, where micro and macro connect, individual personal responsibility with social solidarity.

Each of us has an impact on the entire system.

We are involved in determining our future and we have an impact on our destiny, because the more we get vaccinated the easier it is on the health system now and in the future.

Disease and long-term complications come at a price, and by vaccinating and reducing them we can help our community and strengthen the health care system, which is at the end of our day and for us.

We can help her help us.

Therefore, until the health care system strengthens and becomes robust for all of us, our personal vaccination can be obtained tomorrow.

Children, adults and the elderly - believe in the doctors who care about you, go to your HMO and protect yourself from current illness and future complications.

Healthy, sick, those at risk and not at risk.

Women of childbearing age, pregnant and beyond - managed the risk wisely and were vaccinated with a small individual vaccine, bringing great resilience to our entire society.

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