Doctor Thira reveals new information about Long-term COVID in children indicates that children are at risk of chronic type 1 diabetes for life, saying no infection is the best
Today (20 Jan.) Assoc. Prof. Dr. Teera Woratanarat Faculty of Medicine Chulalongkorn University Post messages via facebook Thira Woratanarat About Long COVID in children, stating that “it has passed 338 million yesterday worldwide. The number of people infected has risen to 3,209,137 people. 8,149 more deaths. Total of 338,878,325 people infected. Total of 5,582,064 deaths.
The top five with the most infections are America, France, India, Brazil and Italy. The number of new infections every day around the world is now. from Asia, Europe and North America which together accounted for 83.92% of the world’s population, while the number of deaths accounted for 83.9%. 84.36 The latest number of new infections from Europe accounted for 46.4 percent of the world, while the number of deaths increased to 41.35 percent.
Yesterday, the number of new infections was five of the top 10 countries from Europe and 11 of the top 20 in the world. Overall, Europe and America are down, but Asia. And South America now looks like a lot of uptrend in many countries. Asia like India Added more than three hundred thousand people While Turkey, Israel, Japan and the Philippines are increasing by tens of thousands each day.
noteworthy is South Africa, which has been hit by the Omicron wave since late last year. lots of infections The number of deaths reported during that period was very small. But now the number of infections has dropped to thousands. It’s clearly a downtrend Instead, there was a clear increase in the number of deaths. reflects the possibility of overlapping periods of the reporting system.
Wear a mask. Two layers. The inner layer is a mask. The outer layer is a cloth mask, found fewer people, shortened as necessary. And stay more than one meter from other people to avoid eating and drinking with others. Do not share food or supplies for Omicron infections, although less severe than Delta.
But academic evidence to date suggests that people who have been infected with coronavirus before. There will be an outstanding condition or Long COVID up to 20-40%, and the Long COVID condition will affect various systems in the body and have long-term problems. both the brain system cardiovascular system digestive system immune system, etc. In addition, in children It also increases the risk of developing type 1 diabetes, which is chronic for life.
It’s best not to get infected.”
