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The Covid pandemic has passed, but the virus continues to circulate around us. Two years later, we are increasingly feeling its influence with the post-covid conditions.
Hematologist Dr. Chavdar Botev stated in the “Bulgaria morning” studio that the problem is very serious.
“In the USA, about 1 million people died from Covid, while at the moment there are about 30 million with post-covid and 2-4 million cannot go to work. In the EU, this is 50 million people. Imagine, in Bulgaria there are a group of 5 thousand women who cannot go to work and this is not known in the state. These are people who are facing social collapse. With normal research methods, you cannot catch that this is post-covid and that leads to a referral to a psychiatrist,” explained the guest.
According to him, the symptoms are very easy to recognize and everyone can feel that they don’t feel like they used to. This is the feeling of fatigue after minimal physical exertion. We underestimate these conditions, and this is a matter of human resources, pointed out Dr. Botev before Bulgaria ON AIR.
The hematologist emphasized that the EU has billions to solve this problem, and “we stand as if nothing happened”.
“This is the most massive problem at the moment. Patients are aware of it, and they mainly go to psychiatrists. The German partners from the laboratories have brought out post-covid studies – a small, medium and large package. When you have the symptoms, you usually have two types of antibodies against the brain, which is very scary. The virus can remain in our brain for months and years, autoimmune reactions gradually occur. We have a sharp increase in autoimmune diseases. In 2020, we gave an insane amount of antibiotics,” said Dr. Botev.
He is of the opinion that the more severe cases should be diagnosed correctly, but the microbiology in the clinics is not up to the mark. A lot of funds should be allocated to microbiologists and virologists, the hematologist believes.
Dr. Botev also indicated some of the post-covid symptoms: rapid fatigue in young people; heart attacks after waking up – occurs when getting up; the immune system is extremely suppressed.
“The vaccine is the correct treatment for every new Covid. A new vaccine has appeared on the market, which is good to have – Novavax. In Germany, they took 10 million vaccines. If you have antibodies, it is not good to make a vaccine. It is 6 times stronger the immunity of those who have been ill,” explained Dr. Botev.
Post-covid conditions can last for years, and for severe cases, medicine cannot help, it became clear from his words.
“It is a parallel pandemic, it affects able-bodied people. There is a solution, our association is ready to work with anyone. We have international partners, we have collected everything,” noted Dr. Botev.
Sometimes post-covid in some people in combination with a certain parasite leads to ultra-rapid dementia. Young people become visibly dumb very quickly, this is very scary, warns the hematologist.
Dr. Botev recommends an antibody test. The guest explained that sometimes severe post-covid begins two years after passing the disease.
Watch the entire conversation in the video.
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