> My personal bet is that the majority of peoples' symptoms are psychogenic You state that you don't know anyone who has long COVID one way or the other and th

> My personal bet is that the majority of peoples' symptoms are psychogenic You state that you don't know anyone who has long COVID one way or the other and then state that it must all be "psychogenic". If it were that common to have fake long COVID you'd think you would know someone who was faking it. Instead you have no experience with it and you're making sweeping pronouncements about it. Yes, the studies finding 10-30% rates of long COVID were flawed, but they were usually of people who were hospitalized and they may have included the people you know who actually had lung damage. And 3 million people can have long COVID and you might not know one of them since that is an incidence of 1-in-100 and even if someone you knew had it, it might not be so totally disabling that they couldn't keep up appearances and hide it from you.