This seems pretty moronic to me. People who don't realize they had covid were likely to have few, if any symptoms. People who had heavy symptoms knew they had c

This seems pretty moronic to me. People who don't realize they had covid were likely to have few, if any symptoms. People who had heavy symptoms knew they had covid. Nobody, save for those living in complete denial, is going to lose their sense of smell and taste and go bedridden for a few days and think they did not have covid. The paper doesn't seem to make any effort to ask the far more relevant question: "Do stronger initial symptoms correlate with stronger long term effects?". They probably do. A lot of it is just straight up long term damage that requires a lot of time to recover. The data seems questionable to me. You really need to dig into it but they've got 50% of people who said they thought had COVID got a negative test in the study. However, 66% of people who believed they had covid actually got diagnosed by a test or doctor. It seems to me that the false negative rate of their serological rate must be abnormally high. Do I really believe that half of people who think they got covid didn't actually have it even though two thirds of them were confirmed by another test? I don't. It seems much more likely to me that their test is just bad they've got mostly believed-positive vs !believed-negative; and believed-positive vs. !believed-postive-but-minor-infection if that makes sense. Hard doubt.