>>> an ongoing global pandemic vascular disease that is being systematically ignored by governments,

Is that covid (vascular?) or something I have not heard of ?

xg15 a day ago | parent | next [-]

> (vascular?)

Not an expert, but from what I understood, SARS-Cov-2 infects cells through the ACE2 receptor that is present in all kinds of different cells along the blood vessels. It's "just" particularly present in the cells inside the lungs, which is why so many Covid patient could not take up enough oxygen anymore. But that somewhat nebulous "long tail" of other Covid symptoms is caused by the virus infecting other cells inside the body.

So I guess that technically makes it a vascular and not a respiratory disease.

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duncancarroll a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's Covid. As someone who only recently recovered from Long Covid after a long, arduous 2-year fight, I see his point.

	▲	fragmede 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		How did you do that?

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throwway120385 a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

COVID is still out there and people still get sick with it and it's still having weird systemic effects in spite of our best efforts to ignore it.

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tartoran a day ago | parent | next [-]

I think COVID is now considered endemic globally, it's more manageable than it was when it first broke out but it still causes deaths and weird after effects, probably not as many as before but will probably stay with us for some time to come.

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cassepipe a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Shouldn't we keep up the vaccination campaigns then ?

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simonw a day ago | parent | next [-]

Yes.

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oezi 19 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

For elderly people we do, right?

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adastra22 19 hours ago | parent [-]

Everyone should be getting vaccinated.

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oezi 18 hours ago | parent [-]

In my country they don't recommend additional vaccinations if you already have been vaccinated or been infected (unless risk factor or age).

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marcosdumay 14 hours ago | parent [-]

Yes, and it may not be the ideal policy.

It may be better to do what we do with the flu, reevaluate the vaccine from time to time, and give the new version to everybody.

But also, around here covid seems to be a smaller problem than influenza, by a rate of 2 if you count only deaths. So it's understandable why people don't want to mess with it.