Decades after polio, Martha is among the last to still rely on an iron lung
Polio is one of those diseases that remind me we're not really taking SARS-2 seriously enough.<p>From Wikipedia's article on Polio:<p>> Up to 70 percent of those infected have no symptoms. Another 25 percent of people have minor symptoms such as fever and a sore throat, and up to 5 percent have headache, neck stiffness, and pains in the arms and legs. These people are usually back to normal within one or two weeks. Years after recovery, post-polio syndrome may occur, with a slow development of muscle weakness similar to that which the person had during the initial infection.<p>SARS-2 binds to ACE2 which is present everywhere in the body [1]. Loss of smell might apparently be a nervous system invasion. [2] Brain scans post COVID show brain matter reduction. [3] REM sleep seems to be disturbed in 4 of 11 long covid patients. [4]<p>We've stopped taking this thing seriously with potentially disastrous consequences<p>[1]: <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7167720/" rel="nofollow">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7167720/</a><p>[2]: <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-020-00758-5" rel="nofollow">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-020-00758-5</a><p>[3]: <a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.11.21258690v3" rel="nofollow">https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.11.21258690v...</a> and <a href="https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/covid-19-may-reduce-gray-matter-volume-in-brain-small-study-suggests" rel="nofollow">https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/covid-19-may-reduc...</a><p>[4]: <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33588262/" rel="nofollow">https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33588262/</a>