John Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center
US Totals: Confirmed Infections 66,222,243
Confirmed Deaths 851,586

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So if You're Not Worried About Getting COVID and Maybe Dying…
Consider this:

"COVID can cause a raft of neurological problems.

"'Although estimates vary, studies have found that at least half of people who recover from COVID-19 continue to suffer from neurological symptoms for months after,' wrote brain surgeon Dr Gupta. 'Brain scans of patients, compared with scans of those who've never been infected, show structural and functional changes to the brain.'

"'SARS-CoV-2 — the virus that causes Covid-19 — is a tricky virus: Some people aren't aware they're infected at all, while others are hospitalized and some die,' said Gupta. 'And a growing group of people get sick and then never fully recover. In support groups, they sometimes refer to themselves as long-haulers.'

"'The symptoms are wide-ranging. Gupta reported on one woman who, months after her initial illness, reported "terrible sinus pain, nausea and loss of appetite, bone-crushing fatigue, dizziness, a burning sensation in her chest, a dry cough, brain fog, confusion, concentration issues and problems with word retrieval."
ETNT /health

“A reason to avoid Omicron, doctors say, is that with previous variants, even mild to moderate cases sometimes resulted in Long Covid, which is when people experience persistent and often worsening symptoms after an infection. Long Covid has been associated with symptoms including cognitive problems, extreme fatigue, a racing heart rate and shortness of breath that can last for many months and even years.

“’The majority of our patients in the long-haul clinics had very mild illness to begin with,” says Greg Vanichkachorn, an occupational and aerospace medicine physician at Mayo Clinic, who works with long Covid patients. 'One of my greatest fears is that these patients that are now experiencing these mild cases may go on to have long-haul Covid. If that is the case with so many people getting sick, we could have this tsunami of long-haul cases in a few weeks or months.’” The Wall Street Journal.


"US infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci in a recent interview said,
'Long Covid can happen no matter what virus variant.'"


“COVID-19 patients show more signs of brain damage than people with Alzheimer’s disease.”
The study is published in the Alzheimer’s & Dementia®: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association.
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