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"analysed health records of 236,379 COVID-19 patients, mostly from the United States, and found 34% had been diagnosed with neurological or psychiatric illnesse
by neither_color 6y ago
"analysed health records of 236,379 COVID-19 patients, mostly from the United States, and found 34% had been diagnosed with neurological or psychiatric illnesses within six months."
Which third? How do I deduce if there's an additional risk, for my risk-group, of developing depression and anxiety to the point where a psychologist would determine that I meet the DSM criteria for diagnosing me with a disorder? Without SOMETHING like sex or age to go by, I think the author is trying to tell us that we should ALL be worried about contagious depression being coughed around.
"The disorders were significantly more common in COVID-19 patients than in comparison groups of people who recovered from flu or other respiratory infections over the same time period, the scientists said,"
I have no doubt that there is a statistical significance depending on the model they choose, but without some numbers I'm not sure if it's significant to you or me i.e significant in the literary sense. I don't mean to be harsh but there's an article for every symptom and covid correlates with many things, but covid has caused me tons of grief and angst but I've tested negative for antibodies twice and negative for covid 3 times. So while I definitely blame covid for causing me emotional harm, it certainly wasn't the virus itself.
- isolli 6y agoI keep referencing it, but I refer you to this article, which contains a lot of helpful information, including a very useful chart: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-04-largest-date-link-covid-infection.html https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-04-largest-date-link-cov... PS. As you'll see, statistically significant difference does not mean an important difference.