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What is the percentage of people who suffered any long term brain effects? And did they do the same study against people who got the flu and other diseases?

lima 5y ago
> And did they do the same study against people who got the flu and other diseases? Does this matter?
- ganzuul 5y ago
  Hard to tell in advance, without the information. Was this a flippant dismissal or a genuine question?
  - lima 5y ago
    Genuine question.
- Frost1x 5y ago
  Would be interesting to know. If you're alarmist about COVID affecting brain tissue long term and we have protections against other diseases that also have long term effects on brain tissues, it reasons to me that you should also be as adamant if not more for protecting against those diseases. There's a lot of funding studying COVID, for good reasons. Why not use those findings to further other areas as well? We now have some interesting comparisons to look at. Might be even more good reasons to promote getting your annual flu shot.
- ekianjo 5y ago
  > Does this matter? Who knows? Maybe there's a ton of viral infections out there that cause some form of brain damage and get no attention at all. Attention bias at play.
- LikelyClueless 5y ago
  I would try to avoid the flu more if I had an idea of how much brain damage it could cause. I understand the comparison to the flu is a touchy subject, but the question can still be asked from a standpoint of curiosity. Is this disease showing completely new symptoms for a viral infection, or have we been over analyzing any little details that are not so uncommon? Does it matter? I certainly would like to know the answer.
  - carlmr 5y ago
    There does seem to be some indication of brain effects in the flu. https://www.newsweek.com/does-flu-affect-your-mind-bad-memory-and-brain-changes-could-result-after-821097 https://www.newsweek.com/does-flu-affect-your-mind-bad-memor...
- plank_time 5y ago
  The flu causes myocarditis in a similar way that COVID has been reported to cause in children. Having a comparison of rates of issues would be useful so as to figure out if it’s important or not. The same goes for this reported brain issue. If it is a real issue, comparing against other known issues will tell us how dangerous it is.
- mkhpalm 5y ago
  > Does this matter? If we believe in science, probably.
dangom 5y ago
They looked at longitudinal data from people before and after COVID. Most of these people had the flu before, none had COVID because it didn't exist in humans then. There is no way to run the exact same study (UK biobank) on people who got the flu.

lima 5y ago

> And did they do the same study against people who got the flu and other diseases? Does this matter?

ganzuul 5y ago
Hard to tell in advance, without the information. Was this a flippant dismissal or a genuine question?
- lima 5y ago
  Genuine question.
Frost1x 5y ago
Would be interesting to know. If you're alarmist about COVID affecting brain tissue long term and we have protections against other diseases that also have long term effects on brain tissues, it reasons to me that you should also be as adamant if not more for protecting against those diseases. There's a lot of funding studying COVID, for good reasons. Why not use those findings to further other areas as well? We now have some interesting comparisons to look at. Might be even more good reasons to promote getting your annual flu shot.
ekianjo 5y ago
> Does this matter? Who knows? Maybe there's a ton of viral infections out there that cause some form of brain damage and get no attention at all. Attention bias at play.
LikelyClueless 5y ago
I would try to avoid the flu more if I had an idea of how much brain damage it could cause. I understand the comparison to the flu is a touchy subject, but the question can still be asked from a standpoint of curiosity. Is this disease showing completely new symptoms for a viral infection, or have we been over analyzing any little details that are not so uncommon? Does it matter? I certainly would like to know the answer.
- carlmr 5y ago
  There does seem to be some indication of brain effects in the flu. https://www.newsweek.com/does-flu-affect-your-mind-bad-memory-and-brain-changes-could-result-after-821097 https://www.newsweek.com/does-flu-affect-your-mind-bad-memor...
plank_time 5y ago
The flu causes myocarditis in a similar way that COVID has been reported to cause in children. Having a comparison of rates of issues would be useful so as to figure out if it’s important or not. The same goes for this reported brain issue. If it is a real issue, comparing against other known issues will tell us how dangerous it is.
mkhpalm 5y ago
> Does this matter? If we believe in science, probably.

dangom 5y ago

They looked at longitudinal data from people before and after COVID. Most of these people had the flu before, none had COVID because it didn't exist in humans then. There is no way to run the exact same study (UK biobank) on people who got the flu.