{"id":92892,"date":"2021-02-15T07:59:06","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T12:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/?p=92892"},"modified":"2021-02-15T08:00:26","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T13:00:26","slug":"auto-draft-499","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2021\/02\/15\/auto-draft-499\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-COVID Symptoms Will Have Profound Impact on Global Health"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"VOA \u2014 The World Health Organization says debilitating post-COVID-19 symptoms in patients will have an impact on global health because of the magnitude of the pandemic. \u00a0<\/p>\n

The World Health Organization is conducting research into \u00a0why many people who are infected with COVID-19 continue to suffer from various disabling conditions for up to six months after they have had the illness. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The team lead of WHO\u2019s Health Care Readiness Division, Janet Diaz, says some people with post-COVID-19 conditions, also known as \u201clong COVID\u201d have not been able to go back to work. \u00a0She says their incapacitating symptoms prolong their recovery period.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cSome of the more common symptoms of the post-COVID-19 condition can be fatigue, exertional malaise, and cognitive dysfunction. \u00a0Sometimes you may be hearing patients describing that as \u2018brain fog.\u2019 \u00a0These are real,\u201d\u00a0 she said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Other complications include shortness of breath, cough, and mental health and neurological complications. \u00a0Diaz says it is not clear which patients are most at risk of long COVID. \u00a0She says they range from patients who have been hospitalized and required intensive care treatment to those with mild illnesses who were treated in ambulatory outpatient settings.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

She says researchers do not know why this is happening and are working hard to get the answers to the many questions surrounding this disease, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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FILE – Health care workers help a woman as she is discharged from the El Salvador Hospital after surviving the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in San Salvador, El Salvador, Jan. 19, 2021.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cWe are concerned, obviously, with the numbers of patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 virus. \u2026 We do not know how common it is or how uncommon it is. \u00a0But the numbers, just by the magnitude of the pandemic will impact health systems. \u00a0Again, the main message from us is prevent infection with SARS-CoV-2. So, the public health measures are the No. 1 intervention right now that we know will prevent this,” she said.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

These measures include observing physical distancing, wearing a mask and handwashing. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

WHO is calling for a coordinated global research response and the collection of as much standardized clinical data as possible to better understand the condition and learn how to better treat those afflicted with this complication.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VOA \u2014 The World Health Organization says debilitating post-COVID-19 symptoms in patients will have an impact on global health because of the magnitude of the pandemic. \u00a0 The World Health Organization is conducting research into \u00a0why many people who are infected with COVID-19 continue to suffer from various disabling conditions for up to six months […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92893,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recposts"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["fa","en"],"languages":{"fa":{"title":true,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92892"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92896,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92892\/revisions\/92896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}