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There is no evidence that long COVID is anything other than the Post-viral syndrome we've known for decades accompanies the flu and other illnesses.
by sanedigital 5y ago
There is no evidence that long COVID is anything other than the Post-viral syndrome we've known for decades accompanies the flu and other illnesses.
- edmundsauto 5y agoI’m a little confused as to your central point. Is it that we should be more aware of the long term deleterious effects of contracting a virus? Because then I think we agree!
- tinus_hn 5y agoSo you propose we should lockdown every year to prevent the deleterious long term effects of the yearly flu?
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- sanedigital 5y agoMy point is that "Long COVID" isn't something new, and therefor is unlikely to effect life expectancy. Viruses are harmful, they cause damage that has long-lasting effects. But COVID isn't more likely to cause those effects than the flu. And we certainly shouldn't be making policy decisions based on those effects.
- edmundsauto 5y agoThe new part is the scale at which it’s happening. If we had an addition 100M flu cases, we would expect a decrease in life expectancy. (Also, this doesn’t address the reality that we don’t know if long Covid is the same as with the flu. I just wanted to point out that even if we accept this premise, we would still se a decrease.)
- sanedigital 5y agoEveryone has the flu at least once in their life. Any life expectancy drop from Post Viral Syndrome is already priced in. We don’t know that COVID is any different—in absence of evidence it’s always best to assume the null case.