findings reinforced the importance of long Covid patients being offered support that extends beyond health…

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findings reinforced the importance of long Covid patients being offered support that extends beyond health care and also addresses needs related to jobs, education, poverty and disability. “It told us that Covid can appear differently in different individuals, and it can have more than one impact on your life,” Dr. Pell said. “Any approach to supporting people has to be, firstly, personalized and also holistic. The answer doesn’t just lie within the health care sector. Long Covid refers to a constellation of problems that can plague patients for months or longer after an infection. Over the last year, researchers have given more attention to understanding the daunting aftereffects as the number of Covid cases exploded and health systems learned to better manage the initial stages of an infection. U.S. government estimates have indicated that between 7.7 million and 23 million people in the United States could have long Covid. Globally, “the condition is devastating people’s lives and livelihoods,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director general of the World Health Organization, wrote in an article for The Guardian. He called on all countries to devote “immediate and sustained action equivalent to its scale.” The authors of the study in Scotland tracked 33,000 people who had tested positive for the virus starting in April 2020 and 63,000 who had never been diagnosed with Covid. In six-month intervals, those people were asked about any symptoms they had, including tiredness, muscle aches, chest pain and neurological problems, and about any difficulties with daily life. Of those with previous Covid cases, 6 percent said on their most recent follow-up survey that they had not recovered at all and 42 percent said that they had only partly recovered. Women, older people and those living in poorer areas faced more serious aftereffects from a Covid infection. So, too, did those with pre-existing health problems, including respiratory disease and depression. Only a small portion of the study participants — about 4 percent — had been vaccinated before their infections, and many of those with only a single dose. “We’re now really heavily reliant upon vaccination,” Dr. Pell said, “which does confer some protection, but it’s not absolute.” Adapted from: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/12/ The text mentions that in the United States, according to statistics, people affected by long Covid reach the mark of (UECE 2023)

1. A) hundreds.
2. B) thousands.
3. C) millions.
4. D) billions.

✅ Resposta correta: alternativa C

Resolução passo a passo

1. O enunciado pergunta qual ordem de grandeza o texto atribui, segundo estatísticas, às pessoas afetadas pela Covid longa nos Estados Unidos.
2. No texto, a informação aparece na passagem: "U.S. government estimates have indicated that between 7.7 million and 23 million people in the United States could have long Covid". Ou seja, a estimativa oficial americana fala em milhões de pessoas.
3. Como 7,7 milhões e 23 milhões são números na casa dos milhões, a alternativa correta é a C (millions).
4. A alternativa A (hundreds) está errada, pois centenas é ordem de grandeza muito menor que a informada no texto.
5. A alternativa B (thousands) está errada, pois milhares também fica muito abaixo dos números citados.
6. A alternativa D (billions) está errada, pois bilhões superaria a população estimada dos Estados Unidos, que é de centenas de milhões, e o texto não menciona esse valor.
7. O gabarito oficial C está correto, de acordo com a minha resolução.

💡 Dica: Leia atentamente o texto para identificar a informação solicitada.

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