Research led by Monash University has highlighted the need for General practitioners and physicians to know the COVID history of patients they treat. The study published in MJA looked at hospitalizations that had causes other than respiratory complications. COVID-19 is not a simple respiratory disease. CODID is not a cold or the flu.
Data from laboratory confirmed COVID-19 cases prior to the vaccine rollout were compared to hospital admission data prior to Omicron. “The incidence of hospitalization within 89 days of onset of COVID-19 was higher than during the baseline period for several conditions, including myocarditis and pericarditis, thrombocytopenia, pulmonary embolism, acute myocardial infarction, and cerebral infarction.” Simply stated “there are considerable risks associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection beyond the initial COVID-19 illness”, said epidemiologist and PhD candidate Stacey Rowe.
“You are 15 times more likely to acquire myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle) requiring hospitalizations following COVID-19 compared with beforehand,” she said. “Things like heart attacks, or acute myocardial infarction occur quite proximally to getting COVID infection, but other conditions such as the clotting conditions – pulmonary embolism, for example — that risk was highest later in the course of COVID illness, highest around 14 to 60 days following COVID illness.”
COVID-19 is a multi-organ disease, it’s not just a respiratory infection. Rowe and colleagues recommend vaccination and “other mitigation strategies”. You are better off not getting COVID. The problem of course is that Americans are done with mitigation strategies of any type. In a pandemic, 15% of people make decisions that help, 15% make decisions that hinder their survival, the rest just follow the herd. The herd has decided to let the virus rip.