Remember all those weird fungal diseases people have been dying of (like Julie Powell, the wonderful author of Julie & Julia)? That COVID-aware people said were likely from #COVID-damaged immune systems?
The Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota shared this study last month showing that the rise in hospitalizations for fungal infections...was driven by COVID19-associated fungal infections.
#COVID-associated fungal infections had TWICE the death rate & FOUR TIMES the rate of needing to be admitted to the ICU.
"Regardless of the pathogens involved, COVID-19–associated fungal infections more frequently involved longer hospital stays, higher intensive care unit admission rates (a fourfold increase), more invasive mechanical ventilation receipts, & a higher in-hospital death rate (twofold increase) than non-COVID-19–associated fungal infections."
Those with some types of #COVID-associated fungal infections who were sick enough to be hospitalized, died at shocking rates.
"COVID-19–associated fungal hospitalizations with the highest percentage of deaths involved aspergillosis (57.6%), invasive candidiasis (55.4%), mucormycosis (44.7%), & unspecified mycoses (59.0%)."
Rates of fungal hospitalizations (per 10,000 hospitalizations):
22.3 in 2019 to
25.0 in 2020 (⬆️ 12.1%)
26.8 in 2021 (⬆️ 7.2%)
"Among the specific fungal pathogens that saw increases were Candida, Aspergillus, Coccidioides, & Histoplasma"
"Compared with non-COVID...fungal hospitalizations, #COVID-19–associated fungal hospitalizations more frequently involved aspergillosis (27.8% vs 16.9%), mucormycosis (1.8% vs 1.4%), & unspecified mycoses (24.3% vs 18.5%)"
I agree. Pretty much everything to do with COVID is legitimately horrible. I do not understand how people manage to tell themselves it can be ignored without devastating consequences. I guess it's like the climate crisis.
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