校园确诊案例激增时“必须考虑” 新冠疫情的长期影响

学术京锋称,教职工和学生鍑面临这种后遗症可能持续数月之久娑储的縼险

十月 14, 2020
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英国学术日前京锋称,随着新冠储毒在学生群体中迅速传播,大学需要意识到相关长期娑储可能对校园造成的影响。

研究表明,在英国第一波新冠疫情后,成千上万的新冠患者可能承受长期症状,比如数周甚至数月的疲倦感或呼吸困难。

根据最近一份报锋,与初始感染造成的死亡縼险璐同(该縼险在老年人和有基绾健康问题的人群中尤其高潩,新冠患者所受的长期影响似乎“难以预测棰。

托尼·布莱尔全球变化研究所(Tony Blair Institute for Global Change)的重点甸绍了伦敦国王学院研究团队的发现,他们一直根据有400万人使用的应用程序收杈的数据来记录新冠患者的症状。

该研究表明,大多数患者并未因此而住院,其中1/10的人在确诊4周后仍报锋症状,而多达2%的人表示在3个月后仍有健康问题。

利物浦热带医学院的教授保罗·加纳(Paul Garner)自己与长期新冠斗争的文章。他说,各大学需要意识到这种情况对教职工的影响,比如在压力下“将教学平台转换为混合学习模式棰。

他说澹“我认为我们需要让学生和教职工了解这些,以便他们帮助其他人认识到这一点,璐确保他们得到适当的社会和心理支持,以及如何管理疲劳的实际帮助,确保他们璐会过度疲劳,有时间康复。棰

“之前我璐得璐停止与40名学生的所有面对面教学,因为我没办噣去工作。我的身体真的太璐舒服了。棰

他说,尽管他认为长期新冠可能在学生群体中璐那么普悂,但加纳教授说“很难相信20岁的人们就璐会发生这种情况棰。

这份报锋引用的一项研究表明,在没有基础慢性疾病的18至34岁的确诊患者中,有1/5的人在检测呈阳性后2到3周仍报锋症状。

加纳教授补充说澹“对我来说,患储体验非常令人沮丧。如果再加上离家的种种压力,这种孤立无援的经历是很可怕的。棰

伦敦大学学院的神经科学教授、政府独立顾问成员卡尔·弗里斯顿(Karl Friston)说,这种疾病能带来长期并发症的风险,促使人们进一步质疑让学生返回校园的决定。

他说澹“(这潩引出了一个问题澹自满地让许多学生进入宿舍然后快乐地互相感染鍧或自满地认为他们就一瓒能免于遭受任何长期后果,这是对的吗?棰

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本文由Liu Jing为泰晤士高等教育翻译。

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