Long-Haul more prevalent among seniors - June - 2022

Long covid symptoms are often overlooked in seniors - June 26, Washington Post

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  • Only now is the impact on older adults beginning to be documented. In a study published in the journal BMJ , researchers estimated that 32 percent of older adults in the United States who survived covid infections had symptoms of long covid up to four months after infection"

  • "The data encompasses both older adults who were hospitalized because of covid (27 percent) and those who were not (73 percent)."

Huge increased risk of many health problems by seniors who had gotten COVID (BMJ. cited by Wash. Port)

Risk of persistent and new clinical sequelae among adults aged 65 years and older during the post-acute phase of SARS-CoV-2 infection: retrospective cohort study - BMJ - Feb 2022 📄 PDF

Much more likely for seniors to get many health problems after getting COVID

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Increased Risk ranges from 2 X to 7.5 X

Example: increased the risk of Dementia by 2.5

Note: Virtually all of the increased health problems are also associated with low vitamin D

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