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Even with your focus on only new diagnoses it's still 6X higher than the figure you claim. Intuitively it would be odd if the people with pre-existing condition
by rcpt 6y ago
Even with your focus on only new diagnoses it's still 6X higher than the figure you claim. Intuitively it would be odd if the people with pre-existing conditions were left untouched instead of making their conditions worse.
> I'm not asking for a strong causality claim, merely some effort to restrict the numbers to conditions that might plausibly have been caused by COVID.
They propensity score match against people who had the flu during lockdown
- leereeves 6y agoI'm not the poster who claimed the lower figure. > They propensity score match against people who had the flu during lockdown Any kind of stress can aggravate psychiatric disorders, substance misuse, and insomnia, and having COVID is surely more stressful than having the flu. That's not the same thing as COVID causing the illness.