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> So cherry picking stories while 99% of COVID19 infected people have no issue surviving it? It's completely false that 99% of infectees have no issue. Aroun
by throwaway81523 5y ago
> So cherry picking stories while 99% of COVID19 infected people have no issue surviving it?
It's completely false that 99% of infectees have no issue. Around 99% don't die, but a heck of a lot of the survivors have long term issues, 37% according to this: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/28/covid-37-of-people-have-symptoms-six-months-after-infection https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/28/covid-37-of-pe...
Even if they emerge from the illness with zero issues, quite a few have undergone a horrible ordeal, been hospitalized and had invasive treatments, etc. Those intense treatments are part of what has kept the death rate so low. In places where the epidemic overwhelmed the hospitals (like Italy early on), the death rate was as high as 10%. Covid and unvaccinated people are also responsible for the deaths of many non-infected people. E.g. if someone has a heart attack but can't get care because the hospitals are full, they die. It's hard to tell exactly how often that happens but the excess death rate (all-cause mortality above the baseline) is quite a lot higher than the pure Covid case fatality numbers. So don't spew nonsense.
- charbonneau 5y agoFrom the study you cited: > We note that almost 43% of patients after influenza had at least one long-COVID feature recorded (Table 1) including 29.7% during the 90- to 180-day period. In this regard, we suggest researchers take a broad and balanced view as to the nature and specificity of long-COVID.
- throwaway81523 5y agoYes, "long flu" is also a thing.