{"id":650,"date":"2022-10-03T12:39:29","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T17:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=650"},"modified":"2022-12-13T11:22:15","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T17:22:15","slug":"long-covid-has-become-a-parallel-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2022\/10\/03\/long-covid-has-become-a-parallel-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Covid Has Become a Parallel Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/opinion\/articles\/2022-10-01\/long-covid-symptoms-last-months-after-omicron-surge\">Bloomberg<\/a> &#8211; There are millions of long-haulers in the US alone, and there will be millions more if we don\u2019t develop better vaccines and treatments.  The price of \u201cliving with Covid\u201d in a free and open society is turning out to be much heftier than public health experts predicted. Even with good vaccines and treatments, this year\u2019s US death toll is already many orders of magnitude higher than that of the other virus that circulates each year, the flu. A terrible flu season kills about 50,000 people, but already more than 226,000 have died from Covid in 2022 \u2014 and even if another wave is avoided and fatalities remain at their current \u201clow\u201d level, another 150,000 lives could be lost over the next 12 months. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/opinion\/articles\/2022-10-01\/long-covid-symptoms-last-months-after-omicron-surge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Continue reading on Bloomberg<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; There are millions of long-haulers in the US alone, and there will be millions more if we don\u2019t develop better vaccines and treatments. The price of \u201cliving with Covid\u201d in a free and open society is turning out to be much heftier than public health experts predicted. Even with good vaccines and treatments, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,11,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clinical-considerations","category-covid","category-long-covid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":651,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions\/651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}