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> People could be experiencing these symptoms for a multitude of reasons including, but not limited to, government mandates, rules, policies, inflation, economi
by nequo 4y ago
> People could be experiencing these symptoms for a multitude of reasons including, but not limited to, government mandates, rules, policies, inflation, economic difficulties, isolation, remote work, etc.
But if people who have tested positive experience these symptoms at a higher rate than people who haven’t, while both populations are exposed to mandates, inflation, etc., then it is reasonable to question whether mandates, inflation, etc. are the cause or the long-term effects of COVID.
- fsociety999 4y agoI agree, but that is not what the study in the linked article shows. It looks like they only looked at people who had previously tested positive for COVID: > They ran an analysis of the first 509 COVID patients treated at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and, in a paper published later that year, reported that 42 percent of them experienced neurological symptoms upon contracting COVID, 63 percent upon being hospitalized, and 82 percent over the entire course of the disease. From what I have seen, this is the same with the other long COVID studies I have seen as well as the other references in this article. Do you have an example of a study that compares long COVID symptoms of people who tested positive compared to people who never had COVID? I would be very interested in reading that.
- ibz 4y agoPeople who tested positive have definitely had more psychological stress, simply due to knowing they tested positive, which added up to the before mentioned stress factors. Also, people who took tests in the first place are people who were more likely to feel stressed due to the existence of this disease than people who never did any test at all.
- _-david-_ 4y agoIt is possible that people who got covid have increased anxiety about long covid which leads to additional issues.