Is coronavirus actually as bad as this claims? Surely we'd of heard more about that?

[YellowEllis]

I was finally becoming relatively relaxed, but I find this very alarming?

I have had prolonged fatigue for a couple of months from Covid. I struggle to get around my regular dog walk.

It comes and goes but a feel like I am working at about 60% of my usual fitness. I get out of breathe really quickly and am wiped out most nights by 9pm.

My best friend had it in March. Now she has COPD. Always fit and healthy, now unable to leave her house or even make her bed.
It's so different each time .
I don't think I've had it. Who knows.

Lynda07, I'm so sorry for your losses.

@Senoritaono

Really appalling scaremongering from a nurse. Hardly a professional way to communicate and not really the role of a nurse to be communicating the effects of a disease to the public anyway, especially on social media. He/ she communicating this to the world through her anecdotal experience of what she has picked up through the ward...just not how things should be done.

Absolutely agree @Senoritaono Anecdotal evidence is dangerous.

Thank you, Perking, I haven't actually lost anyone; the woman I mentioned who died of a stroke I have met four or five times and liked but I didn't know her well. My son recovered and is fine.

I'm glad your son did well, Lynda.

Veronicat, I'm sorry to hear about your friend, that's so upsetting for her 😥
Is there any chance she might recover some of her lung function?

The thing is this can be the case with many viruses. I contacted chicken pox in my 30s and was off work for 4 weeks, 2 of those weeks I was really very poorly and narrowly avoided hospitalisation. For the next 12-18 months I contacted pretty much everything that was going the rounds and get it much worse, I e. I caught what has been for most people a child and it turned into a lingering chest infection. My friend contacted chicken pox as an adult and ended up being hospitalised. Yet most consider chicken pox a harmless childhood disease.

This recent study obviously is very early research but it backs up anecdata heard from doctors since the beginning of this. I remember hearing an interview with a NYC ER doctor saying that the most people coming into the ER were presenting with Covid but that the strange thing was that even the ones who weren't and had no covid symptoms....if they scanned their lungs, they concluded they had covid.

www.kpbs.org/news/2020/jun/14/sripps-asymptomatic-coronavirus-patients-can-still/

This is absolutely terrifying and I wonder why people are in such a hurry to go out

@SpottyBrolly
I have the same experience as you with getting chickenpox as an adult. Very ill and required hospitalisation, and unwell for a couple of months after. Covid is also likely to turn into a relatively harmless childhood disease in the next generation. And the complications described are not out of order for a serious viral infection, that required hospitalization.
I had covid and have no post-recovery complications (just to add to the other side of the debate).

CHicken pox in a community that has no immunity I suspect would be awful
That is exactly what happened when European settlers brought European viruses to Native American population. And brought syphilis back to Europe.

I had it as an adult it was awful though I caught it from my Mum who was far worse than me.

Viruses are funny things we had hfm in the household. DS was awful he was ill 3 days before they appeared (and ended up in A&E from the Drs due to his symptoms) and then was absolutely covered in them. DH has a medium case, off work for a week or so. DD had the same number of spots as DS had on one thumb (around 20). I was the nurse and (for once) never got it.

@B1rdbra1n

Veronicat, I'm sorry to hear about your friend, that's so upsetting for her 😥 Is there any chance she might recover some of her lung function?

Early days so we are hoping she will 🤞 If not, then I'll be trying to get her moved up to us . Not forcing her, she wanted to move here before lockdown happened! We are 500 miles away from her and she is on her own. There is a care plan being put in place which will help.

Yep. They knew very early on about the clotting and were giving much more of the anticoagulant drugs than they would routinely give to ICU patients.

Think the press reports on the ‘cures’ but not the full gamut if what is being given to patients with severe COVID. As Kate Garraway has said, her husband is now free of COVID but they are treating all the other things it has caused.

I have several ITU specialists in the family. Drs & nurses, spread across the UK & Ireland. They are all concerned that there is no coverage on the long term effects. More worryingly they all report "return" patients with strokes or cardiac events (heart attacks & cardiac arrests). We should all filter the information we get from online sources but the original post backs up what I'm hearing.