New Study Reveals Long COVID's Burden and Costs on Dutch Healthcare Systems.
University of Groningen study of 150,000 adults shows long COVID patients use almost all healthcare services more than those who recovered fully from COVID or were never infected.
In a large-scale study from the Netherlands people with "long COVID used nearly every type of healthcare service more frequently than those who recovered fully from COVID or were never infected", underscoring LC disease burden
#LongCovid
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/pap...
As a doctor with #ME/CFS, this is probably the worst disease that exists.
Reasons:
1) ME/CFS has a worse quality of life then almost any other disease including COPD, most cancers, most heart attacks, strokes, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, etc.
www.reddit.com/r/mecfs/comm...
Taking a much needed break from Trump madness with my new Substack post focused on science, medicine, and emerging potential therapeutics for complex illnesses like Long Covid and ME/CFS. Please enjoy, comment, subscribe.
dlkmd.substack.com/p/complex-ch...
How do we know Covid and flu do not cause cancer and only severe bouts of it do?
I call bs. From what I’ve learned the past few years I don’t think any pathogen has a net positive or zero effect.
It seems net negative long term, but to what extent is up for grabs.
