Does covid have long term effects on running?

dunes runner wrote:

achoo wrote:

If it gets to your lungs, you are done, like me.

when covid hit I couldn't even walk.

I've lost 50% of my vo2max/performance

I simply cannot breathe properly anymore.

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wear a damn mask and minimize interacting with other people until there is a vax

So you're wearing a mask, and you wonder why you're sick????

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You're sick because you're wearing a mask, not because of some imaginary virus.

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You wore a mask, you got sick, and now you want other people to get sick.

That is definitely sick!

This:

So you didn’t exercise for 3 weeks and are surprised you were tired after your first run back?

coach of a wrote:

The flu is much more dangerous to young healthy people. Betting you don't wear a mask and stay away from people for 4 months every year.

How does the fu attack the longs and cause scarring?

*lungs

NameStolenAgainII wrote:

coach of a wrote:

The flu is much more dangerous to young healthy people. Betting you don't wear a mask and stay away from people for 4 months every year.

How does the fu attack the longs and cause scarring?

The coach is a absolutely right that influenza is more dangerous to young healthy people. Influenza is a respiratory illness that can cause fibrosis to the lung tissue creating long-term damage:

Influenza can also cause a whole host of other serious complications:

The prevalence of post-COVID-19 fibrosis will become apparent in time, but early analysis from patients with COVID-19 on discharge from hospital suggests a high rate of fibrotic lung function abnormalities. Overall, 51 (47%) of 108 patients had impaired gas transfer and 27 (25%) had reduced total lung capacity.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213260020302253

I don't hold much creditability on that study - look where the funding comes from; "AstraZeneca, Biogen, Galecto, and GlaxoSmithKline." Lol. In addition, "The Lancet" is largely funded by the pharmaceutical giants.

The first thing I do when I see a fearmongering Covid study is to look at the funding. Funding from pharmaceutical giants loses all credibility with me.

Let's dig deeper into this wrote:

NameStolenAgainII wrote:

How does the fu attack the longs and cause scarring?

The coach is a absolutely right that influenza is more dangerous to young healthy people. Influenza is a respiratory illness that can cause fibrosis to the lung tissue creating long-term damage:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4797447/

Influenza can also cause a whole host of other serious complications:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5596521/

Hmmm, maybe that's why I can't break 6min mile and 21m 5k anymore. I got a bad case of the flu about 5 years ago and running hasn't been the same since. I just thought I was out of shape.

Except the question pertains to runners. People who were hospitalized were old and overweight. Real runners are asymptomatic. 20 guys on my cross country have had Covid. Every single one of them has run faster than the year before.

Some of the replies here and and in other covid threads are hilarious.

It's like watching a bunch of flat-earthers and wondering which ones are really that stupid and which ones are just egging on the stupid because it's entertaining.

So the logic apparently is because it didn't/barely affected you or the other two dozen people you know who are teenagers or 20-somethings it's all a "hoax" and not serious? Really? Are you that sociopathic that you can't imagine other people have a far more serious experience?

Again, if it gets to your lungs, you are done. It's not just lung scarring, the alveoli in your lungs which do all the air exchange to the rest of your system do NOT heal, they do NOT regenerate. You are born with all you are going to get and if they get damaged it's over. Go use google and learn things. Endless studies. (What do you think COPD from smoking or pollutants actually is caused by? Damaged alveoli that cannot heal/regenerate.)

If you heal within a couple weeks and covid doesn't make it into your lungs you'll be fine and can rag on how "covid is nothing". If you don't heal fast enough or well enough and covid starts chowing down on your lungs and alveoli, you are done.

It's that simple as far as what it means to running. And it's a lottery if your genetics/exposure-level means it will make it to your lungs. You can either gamble or just do something remotely smart and be safe for a few more months until a vax is available, then go back to your regular life. I mean really, is that so difficult?

Our local time traveling portal has been broke since January. I guess we will need to wait 10 years to see what long term impact is. I have seen a few contradicting graphs, though.

I agree. I don’t think covid is nothing. For me and my girlfriend it was nothing, but my grandad ended up on a ventilator and he was fortunate to come off. He is 74 but he is in great shape for his age. He is finally out of the hospital and improving more and more. He is finally back working in the yard and doing things around the house but he cannot do all the things he could before coronavirus. It’s pretty serious stuff. I wish more people would be cautious about it and it wasn’t so politicized.

Let's dig deeper into this wrote:

I don't hold much creditability on that study - look where the funding comes from; "AstraZeneca, Biogen, Galecto, and GlaxoSmithKline." Lol. In addition, "The Lancet" is largely funded by the pharmaceutical giants.

The first thing I do when I see a fearmongering Covid study is to look at the funding. Funding from pharmaceutical giants loses all credibility with me.

Yes, I completely agree with you. Which goes to show that the whole thing is a ----. (fill in the blank).

cfaircloth17 wrote:

my grandad ended up on a ventilator and he was fortunate to come off. He is 74 but he is in great shape for his age. He is finally out of the hospital and improving more and more. He is finally back working in the yard and doing things around the house but he cannot do all the things he could before coronavirus.

I completely agree. It's very important to stay away from dangerous big pharma medical doctors, hospitals, and do not EVER let them put you or anyone else on a ventilator.

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Already they have killed nearly 90 percent of the people they've put on ventilators in hospitals this year.

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This has nothing to do with whether there's a real virus or not, which still to this date has continually failed to be proven.

NameStolenAgain wrote:

The prevalence of post-COVID-19 fibrosis will become apparent in time, but early analysis from patients with COVID-19 on discharge from hospital suggests a high rate of fibrotic lung function abnormalities. Overall, 51 (47%) of 108 patients had impaired gas transfer and 27 (25%) had reduced total lung capacity.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213260020302253

How much of that damage is from ventilators?

Sounds like you are a flat earther. You are correct that you can't just look at a few people. But that is what you area attempting to do. The data says that young healthy people are unaffected. Betting that you also reject science when it tells you that a man can't be a woman and that the thing living inside of a pregnant woman is a human.

Let's dig deeper into this wrote:

I don't hold much creditability on that study - look where the funding comes from; "AstraZeneca, Biogen, Galecto, and GlaxoSmithKline." Lol. In addition, "The Lancet" is largely funded by the pharmaceutical giants.

The first thing I do when I see a fearmongering Covid study is to look at the funding. Funding from pharmaceutical giants loses all credibility with me.

Try digging deep than your ass. The study makes no mention of "your" funding sources. If you could read you might try the the actual full study.

Probably not, but we won't know for years to come. Then it will be muddled as lawyers get involved.

scientific data wrote:

Probably not, but we won't know for years to come. Then it will be muddled as lawyers get involved.

Making use of the forum to hear from those that have had pneumonia might be useful,

as I would expect long term recovery would be similar for similar severity cases:

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One study followed 576 adult patients with community-acquired pneumonia. Thirty days after diagnosis, 65 percent of them reported fatigue, nearly half of whom said their fatigue was moderate to severe; 53 percent reported cough and 36 percent reported shortness of breath. Ninety days after diagnosis, 51 percent reported fatigue, 32 percent cough, and 28 percent shortness of breath.

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For a runner who still hopes to pr, so healthy and in good shape, the flu/pneumonia tag

team is probably a bigger threat to catch and have a serious case than covid.