“ Only you are responsible for your own health.” That is the stupid American credo, weaponized. It’s called “public health” for a reason.
Yes, the medical system is full of corruption and gaslighting and fraud, and yes, each of us is well advised to do our due diligence when it comes to the health of ourselves and those we care about. But only institutions, acting through lots of workers, can detect and deal with broad threats to health and welfare, and it’s so dopey that in so much of the world, that kind of pro-social activity gets sh!tcanned for profit or politics. And now the individual is told that disease and such failures are all their own fault?
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Eight months after mild COVID-19, one in ten people still has at least one moderate to severe symptom that is perceived as having a negative impact on their work, social or home life. The most common long-term symptoms are a loss of smell and taste and fatigue. This is according to a study published in the journal
JAMA, conducted by researchers at Danderyd Hospital and Karolinska Institutet in Sweden.
Since spring 2020, researchers at Danderyd Hospital and Karolinska Institutet have conducted the so-called COMMUNITY study, with the main purpose of examining immunity after COVID-19. In the first phase of the study in spring 2020, blood samples were collected from 2,149 employees at Danderyd Hospital, of whom about 19 percent had antibodies against SARS-CoV-2. Blood samples have since then been collected every four months, and study participants have responded to questionnaires regarding long-term symptoms and their impact on the quality of life.