著者

Xuejiao Liao Yuan Guan Qibin Liao Zhenghua Ma Liping Zhang Jingke Dong Xiaojuan Lai Guoqin Zheng Sumei Yang Cheng Wang Zhonghui Liao Shuo Song Hongyang Yi Hongzhou Lu

出版者

National Center for Global Health and Medicine

雑誌

Global Health & Medicine (ISSN:24349186)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.4, no.6, pp.322-326, 2022-12-25 (Released:2022-12-26)

参考文献数

19

被引用文献数

7

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Although Omicron appears to cause less severe acute illness than the original strain, the potential for large numbers of patients to experience long COVID is a major concern. Little is known about the recovery phase in cases of Omicron, highlighting the importance of dynamically monitor long COVID in those patients. Subjects of the current study were patients available for a three-month follow-up who were admitted from January 13 to May 22, 2020 (period of the original strain) and from January 1 to May 30, 2022 (period of Omicron). Twenty-eight-point-four percent of patients infected with the original strain had long-term symptoms of COVID-19 and 5.63% of those infected with the Omicron strain had such symptoms. The most common symptom was a cough (18.5%), followed by tightness in the chest (6.5%), in patients infected with the original strain. Fatigue (2.4%) and dyspnea (1.7%) were the most commonly reported symptoms in patients infected with the Omicron strain. The respiratory system is the primary target of SARSCoV-2. Supportive treatment is the basis for the treatment of respiratory symptoms in patients with COVID-19. Quality sleep and good nutrition may alleviate fatigue and mental issues. Further knowledge about a long-term syndrome due to Omicron needs to be discussed and assembled so that healthcare and workforce planners can rapidly obtain information to appropriately allocate resources.

著者

Liping Zhang Thomas L Delworth William Cooke Xiaosong Yang

出版者

日本地球惑星科学連合

雑誌

日本地球惑星科学連合2019年大会

巻号頁・発行日

2019-03-14

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While decadal variability and predictability in the North Atlantic and North Pacific have received considerable attention, there has been less work on decadal variability and predictability in the Southern Ocean. As shown previously, a coherent mode of decadal to centennial variability exists in multiple climate models. The mechanism involves a multidecadal accumulation of heat in the subsurface of the Southern Ocean, which is then rapidly discharged through intense oceanic convection when the accumulation of subsurface heat reduces the stratification of the water column. The release of this accumulated subsurface heat can have considerable regional scale climatic impacts, along with substantial impacts on ocean heat uptake. Using a large suite of perfect predictability experiments, in concert with long control simulations, we show that this variability has a high degree of predictability. We present further results that show this type of variability may play an important role for interpreting recently observed trends of sea ice and temperature in the Southern Ocean. Specifically, observed trends over the last several decades resemble a particular phase of this variability in which reduced oceanic convection leads to subsurface warming and surface cooling, with associated increases in sea ice extent. This phase of natural variability may substantially contribute to observed decadal trends, working in concert with other factors.