American here, back again to inquire on attitudes and opinions abroad. This time I am curious about Long Covid (I am unclear if it goes by another westernized name in Scandinavia?). That is, a set of post-viral symptoms that follows for weeks/months/years after a covid infection (doesn’t necessarily need to be a severe case of covid).

In the US there is quite a bit of focus and fear of long covid in both [Print Media like the New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/search?query=long+covid)
and our [Cable News like CNN](https://www.cnn.com/search?q=long%20covid&size=10&sections=health). It’s a pretty strong part of our discussion and tied to a lot our discussion about when we can remove masks, risk of exposure to children under 5 as we wait for approval of vaccines in that age, etc.

I was trying to get a sense of how the press treats it in Denmark but wasn’t finding much discussion (likely my poor SE skills).

How does it seem to rank as a risk and concern where you live? Anyone care to share what’s going on their communities?

Appreciate it, thanks

9 comments

  1. I would say it is not a concern at all here in Denmark. Most people with long term symptoms have lost their sense of taste/smell.
    Covid is not a concern in Denmark anymore, We don’t have to Wear masks or use hand sanitiser 300 times a Day.

  2. It is not your searching skills, the press here is busy with Russian war, inciding panic about foodshortages(doesn’t exist) increasing inflation, higher energy cost, and the vote next month on joining the EUs army. Covid is down to 1000 infected a day, and people don’t really care about distancing or hand sanitation, people have forgotten we still have an epidemic( yes we have reduced it from a pandemic).

    About long covid, not really something we care about or are very concerned about, given we don’t get into debt if we have to go to the hospital, we get paid even if we are sick( for a while), which is what I am guessing is what the US articles talk about.

  3. It exists and it’s being studied.

    Eg
    https://www.ssi.dk/aktuelt/nyheder/2022/mange-danskere-oplever-senfolger-efter-covid-19

    There’s been plenty of coverage of the long term effects especially to sense of smell.

    Maybe it’s less of a concern since the handling of it all has worked better in dk and it’s pretty much over now since people are vaccinated and most of us have had it (omicron).

    Also maybe the health system matters? As you may know ours is tax funded so while it sucks to be long term sick here it’s not the same potential risk financially.

  4. As others have posted, it’s not really on the radar here. I don’t know anyone who is complaining of long Covid symptoms, either at work or personal circle. Quite a few have had Covid but that’s it. I work in Sweden a lot and there is also very little chatter about the whole Covid thing there either. Now all they talk about is going to their summer houses at the weekend and putting boats in the water.

  6. It is studied and followed. Especially in the beginning.

    It turned out very few got long covid, compared to initial fear. It pops up, from time to time, but in general is not a concern, but not completely ignored.

    Also, your coverage of the disease went in the gutter, and exposing influencers like Risa Hoshino who now deleted/blocked reading her tweets could perhaps help you get back to a more scientific coverage and understanding.

  7. I think (Zero evidence, just my thought), that long covid was more prevalent with the early strains – alpha, beta, delta. It was most definitely a thing when those variants were dominant, people would lose their sense of smell, suffer from fatigue, dizzyness, headaches, shortness of breath – all of that. And I think most people took it very seriously.

    Again the following is just what I personally understand, I don’t know for sure that this is correct: It seems like for omicron, the virus manifests somewhere else in the respiratory system (than alpha, beta, delta), and doesn’t cause nearly as many problems. Both during the active infection and after.

    For this reason, I think we didn’t hear so much about it after omicron took over (and it did completely quite fast).

    This again is just my understanding, I don’t know this for a fact. I might be wrong.

  8. Covid is over in Denmark. Seems like the US wants to prolong the pandemic for as long as possible. That federal money won’t come to big parma if there’s no pandemic. Stoke the fire(msn) and milk the cow(big parma).
    This message was not brought to you by Pfizer.

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