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It may be that that ultimately proves to be the most likely explanation, but I strongly disagree with the level of certainty you're attaching to that claim in t
by 6177c40f 4y ago
It may be that that ultimately proves to be the most likely explanation, but I strongly disagree with the level of certainty you're attaching to that claim in this case.
- pseudo0 4y agoThe correlation with anxiety disorders makes me highly skeptical of long COVID claims: > “We were surprised by how strongly psychological distress before a COVID-19 infection was associated with an increased risk of long COVID,” said Siwen Wang, a researcher in the Department of Nutrition at Harvard Chan School who led the study. “Distress was more strongly associated with developing long COVID than physical health risk factors such as obesity, asthma, and hypertension.” https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/09/depression-anxiety-may-escalate-chances-of-long-covid-says-study/ https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/09/depression-an...
- randm_sequence 4y agoIt is well known that psychological distress can weaken the immune system making individuals less able to clear a novel virus.
- nyolfen 4y agosurely this should be reflected in mortality rates, then, right? and yet...