Joe Biden is not at risk from Long COVID
“What to know about Paxlovid, the COVID drug President Biden is using to speed recovery” (NPR) says that Joe Biden is sure to be back to his dynamic self soon. No possibility of “Long COVID” and associated “brain fog” is mentioned.
Last month, also from NPR, “Vaccination Nation: The Not-So-Long Odds Of Long COVID”:
According to a new report by the CDC, one in five COVID survivors under the age of 65 has experienced a health condition that could be considered long COVID. For seniors, that number rises to one in four.
So… the typical older American has a 25 percent chance of experiencing Long COVID while Joe Biden’s chance is 0 percent. Our leader will not suffer from brain fog.
A friend with a Ph.D., on hearing the news about Joe Biden’s COVID-19 situation:
Does he have Covid, cancer, dyslexia, dementia, or more? I have no idea.
Meanwhile, we visited Dollywood this week (en route to Oshkosh via Cirrus SR20). The crowds were manageable (much more so than in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, which has 1/5th of the infrastructure that it needs to handle the volume of visitors), but it was still a crowded environment. We saw a family wearing masks. Father in a surgical mask. Son in a cloth mask. Mom wearing a chin diaper. They were concerned enough about COVID-19 to wear masks, but not concerned enough to refrain from visiting a jammed theme park. My personal solution for keeping safe from COVID-19 is to avoid obesity via consuming all-natural pork rinds. Here is the Dollywood pork rind operation:
(In fairness, the rate of obesity at Dollywood seems to be lower than at Disney World.)
Related:
- “1 in 5 Educators Say They’ve Experienced Long COVID” (EdWeek), in which the unionized Zoom army is felled by SARS-CoV-2