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How to deal with the nearly 145 million patients with new crown sequelae worldwide?

   The new crown epidemic is about to complete its third year. Data shows that the number of infected people in the world exceeds 600 million, and the cumulative death toll exceeds 6.56 million. The aftermath of the new crown is being discussed and paid more and more attention.   On October 10, the Journal of the American Medical Association published a large-scale global study led by WHO online, which is regarded as the most comprehensive analysis of the sequelae of the new crown since the epidemic. The study pooled data on 1.2 million people with symptomatic new crown infections in 22 countries. The model estimates that 6.2% of new crown infections will be in 2020 and 2021, and more than 74,000 people will report at least three months after their first infection. COVID-19 sequelae.   "The new crown is not only a respiratory disease, but also affects many tissues and organs of the human body, involving the central nervous system, peripheral nervous system, gastrointestinal tract,...

Valuable "off season"

   The barber Xiao Li's shop opened, but there were not many customers. There was an old barber shop nearby, and that business was as good as ever, and it was completely unaffected by the newly opened barber shop.   Xiao Li asked Mr. Wang, a marketing expert, for advice.   Teacher Wang asked Xiao Li: "What time of day does your store have the least traffic?"   Xiao Li said: "Of course it's from the time it opens in the morning to 12 noon."   Teacher Wang said: "Then you can use this time and another time. A barber shop competes."   Xiao Li is very puzzled, this is the most difficult time of day for a barber shop to do business, when it is prosperous, it can't compete with its competitors, and it is more difficult to have hope when it is low. However, Xiao Li still followed Teacher Wang's method.   A month later, Xiao Li was pleasantly surprised to find that the business of his barber shop was indeed getting more and more prosperous.   Mr. W...

Why were dinosaurs so huge?

   When it comes to dinosaurs, the first thing that comes to mind for most people is "giant". So why did dinosaurs have such a huge size? Why have land mammals never reached such a scale? What limits the limitless growth of animals? How did dinosaurs push the limits of their size? How did dinosaurs support their huge bodies? what limits the limitless growth of animals   Back in the 19th century, British paleontologist Edward Kopp noticed a phenomenon: animals of a species tend to get bigger and bigger as they evolve. This phenomenon came to be known as Kopp's Law. Evolutionarily speaking, the larger the individual, the more difficult it is to be invaded by predators, and the easier it is to defeat opponents in the search for food and mates. But it also brings some disadvantages: large animals are more prone to extinction, because large animals have a larger appetite and slower reproduction than small animals, so in an era of food shortages, the probability of extinction i...

Dedicated blue disk

   Elaine used to be a well-known journalist who has published many influential articles and has a bright future. But her husband, Kathy, tired of big city life, moved out of New York with Elaine to rural New Hampshire.   Elaine wanted to make money by writing novels, but when she arrived in a new place, she lost inspiration and couldn't write a word. Casey's new company was also struggling, and the two's savings continued to dwindle. The couple kept arguing about this, and recently they started to fight. Elaine couldn't help but wonder if she chose to leave the city, did she make a mistake?   Just then, an editor asked Elaine to write an article about the local customs of New Hampshire, and Elaine happily agreed.   After making all the preliminary preparations, Elaine drove to the Lasso restaurant in town, where she wanted to interview Jensen, the owner and chef of the restaurant.   It was only six in the morning, but the restaurant was already full of people. A strong...

The next disruptive energy technology, long-term energy storage?

   Every summer, the "power cut" drama comes as scheduled. Last year's "largest power shortage in history" is still fresh in my memory. This year's power outage has been staged again. From Sichuan and Chongqing in the west to Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai in the east, the power shortage began to spread rapidly.   This is a new energy storage method "long-term energy storage" that has appeared in the public eye. Will it be the next disruptive energy storage technology direction? to change   To date, the duration of long-duration energy storage has not been clearly defined, and the U.S. Department of Energy classifies it as 10 hours or more of continuous discharge at rated power. However, it is meaningless to focus only on the charging and discharging time away from the usage scene. A relatively accepted statement in the industry is an energy storage system that can realize charge-discharge cycles across the sky, across the month, and even across se...

The duckweed needs its roots

 If you keep Utricularias in a bowl of clean water, they will wither, no matter how well you provide plenty of light. They cannot thrive in clear ditches, where there are no small aquatic creatures. They are literally starving, they cannot absorb enough nutrients from the water: they have to be fed! They are so accustomed to fatty broth that the thin water porridge with which other plants are content makes them sick. You now also understand that the Bladderwort does not need roots, like the duckweed, for example. The leaves more or less serve the purpose of it: nevertheless they absorb the dissolved nutrients. The hornwort seldom has roots either, it is so completely surrounded by the nourishing water that it is completely permeated by it of its own accord. That "by itself" is of course in a manner of speaking—I mean about the same as when I say that water, in which a pig 's bladder is suspended full of milk, turns itself into water and milk—the milk in the bladder too—yo...

Laws of Modification.

 I have hitherto spoken of the variations—which are so common and varied in the cultivated state of organisms, and to a somewhat lesser degree frequent in the wild—as if they were caused by chance. This is, however, a wholly incorrect way of expression, which is only suitable to document our complete ignorance of the cause of any particular deviation. some writers[p. 158]see it as the task of the reproductive system to produce individual differences or very slight differences in structure rather than to make the child equal to the elders. But the much greater variability, as well as the much more frequent monstrosities, of the organisms subjected to culture lead me to believe that deviations of structure are in some way related to the nature of the external conditions of life to which the elders and their ancestors have been exposed for several generations , hang out. I made the remark in the first chapter—but a long record of facts, which cannot be given here, would be necessary t...