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This doesn't feel super applicable. The body in the middle of a COVID infection vs months later is in a VERY different state. Also I don't even know if there's
by cdrini 5y ago
This doesn't feel super applicable. The body in the middle of a COVID infection vs months later is in a VERY different state. Also I don't even know if there's any mortality data for long COVID; it could just provide quality of life degradation.
- jacobolus 5y agoI saw an observational study tracking hospitalized (but nominally surviving) Covid patients for a year where a far higher number died (of various causes) than the base rate in the population [sorry I can’t find a link now in a few minutes of searching]. Some of this is selection bias (people who get bad Covid cases tend to be in worse shape to begin with), but I would expect the after-effects of Covid to cause significantly increased mortality. We’ll have much better data about this in a few years.