I’m sure some post-viral syndrome characteristic of Covid exists, but a diagnostic code does not a diseass make. A brief look through the history of those ICD

I’m sure some post-viral syndrome characteristic of Covid exists, but a diagnostic code does not a diseass make. A brief look through the history of those ICD and DSM codes emphasize how their are sorts of factors that go into establishing, revising, and retracting codes — political, administrative, clinical, epidemiological, etc etc In fact, it’s normal for a code to show up as a bucket to help broadly track purported cases well before any etiological basis or scientific consensus is established. The codes are more of an input to science than an output.