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Also younger people get Long Covid at higher rates.

• timr 6y ago
  > Also younger people get Long Covid at higher rates. We do not have a definition for "long covid", let alone enough information to make such a claim. At best, this is blatant speculation, at worst, it's completely false. The best data for long-term sequelae of Covid indicate that it correlates with disease severity, which itself correlates (strongly) with age.
  • subsubzero 6y ago
    Agree, the media is really putting this "long covid" fear into younger people to just scare them to not congregate and spread the virus. Long covid can be substituted with long pneumonia, long flu etc. I had long flu back in early 2018, was extremely sick for 3-4 weeks, and went to the Dr. 12 times in 2 months, after almost 3 months was back to normal somewhat, still had cough and fatigue which finally went away after the 3rd month. Very scary times.
    • timr 6y ago
      I try to stay agnostic on the question, and simply counter obviously irresponsible speculation with facts and data. That said, the news media has been shameless about misinterpreting data consistently in order to promote fear. It's a real problem.