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Because people are experiencing long-term effects besides death.

• lotsofpulp 5y ago
  How good is this data? How does it compare to long term effects of other common viral infections?
• throwawayboise 5y ago
  But how many, and is it more than other respiratory illness?
• nsainsbury 5y ago
  Actually, a recent meta-analysis found that when you actually add a control group, most of the "long COVID" symptoms disappear. Higher quality studies were was associated with lower prevalence of almost all symptoms. "Long COVID" appears to be almost entirely an artifact of bad science (and bad science reporting) See https://twitter.com/ShamezLadhani/status/1472622893154639876 https://twitter.com/ShamezLadhani/status/1472622893154639876 and https://www.journalofinfection.com/article/S0163-4453(21)00555-7/fulltext https://www.journalofinfection.com/article/S0163-4453(21)005...
  • DennisP 5y ago
    Glad to see that. Appears to be just for children, do you know of similar studies on adults?