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He said: "Not to say there aren't a lot of people with clear-cut long covid syndromes." But, also, you'll find people with long COVID who are finally paying a
by mlyle 6y ago
He said: "Not to say there aren't a lot of people with clear-cut long covid syndromes."
But, also, you'll find people with long COVID who are finally paying attention to other symptoms and ascribing them to the C-19 infection.
- watwut 6y agoThe long haulers I know have long symptoms that would be impossible to ignore previously too. The doctors won't care about tiny symptoms either.
- mlyle 6y agoSome of the things that cause concern are studies finding depression, fatigue, brain fog, etc. But if you screened any population of lower health you'd find a fair number of instances of these... and historical baselines are probably not valid because we've had a weird year. So-- the exact incidence of some of the milder end of long COVID is hard to pin down.
- watwut 6y agoThe fatigue here is not vaguely feeling fatigue. It is "I can't work full time as before and need to take nap twice a day fatigue. Same with brain fog and depression. Vaguely noticeable symptoms are basically ignored.
- mlyle 6y agoAgain, the studies that have looked at cohorts of people infected to estimate incidence have not had this strict of a definition of fatigue or depression. Certainly some people have these symptoms and they are very very likely to be from the COVID infection itself. But other people have more minor symptoms and these are included in many estimates of post-COVID syndrome, and discerning whether they were related at all to COVID and caused by COVID itself is more complicated, because if you were to screen a normal population with these criteria you'd find a fair incidence of these symptoms.