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It’s really easy to discard that study. Someone who thinks they had COVID-19 and didn’t even bother getting tested is likely to have had a more severe case. May
by jquery 5y ago
It’s really easy to discard that study. Someone who thinks they had COVID-19 and didn’t even bother getting tested is likely to have had a more severe case. Maybe it wasn’t even a case of COVID-19 but a severe viral infection nonetheless. Meanwhile serology positives would show up even after mild infection.
- whimsicalism 5y agoIt's really easy to discard if you don't know what a serology test is, that's for sure.
- jquery 5y agoA serology test is just proof of prior infection. It says nothing about the severity and would even count asymptomatic cases. So the study is comparing apples and oranges.
- whimsicalism 5y ago1. Antibody positives are more likely the more severe the case of covid 2. Your point was that people with more severe covid would > thinks they had COVID-19 and didn’t even bother getting tested The problem with that theory is that the serology testing in this study was conducted on everybody so whether or not people chose to get tested when they had covid was irrelevant. The fact that perceived infection correlates higher with these symptoms means that these symptoms are more related to someone's self perception of infection than any physical change.