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Like "Long COVID", "post covid vaccine syndrome" is probably psychosomatic.

• N2yhWNXQN3k9 2y ago
  > Like "Long COVID", "post covid vaccine syndrome" is probably psychosomatic. Evidence?
  • rcpt 2y ago
    Lots of research on Long COVID points this way https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9825049/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9825049/ Not to say it isn't real. It is. But just like back pain or headaches there's a good chance it's mostly explained by psychology.
    • Retric 2y ago
      A doctor dismissing something they don’t know the cause of as psychological is common, but that doesn’t mean the diagnosis is correct. Many things used to be thought of as psychological before we found the underlying physical causes. It’s just as meaningless an explanation as “God did it.”
      • rcpt 2y ago
        A collection of papers with citations and data isn't "a doctor dismissing something they don't know"
        • Retric 2y ago
          Those examples I referred to where the generally accepted practice not just individual opinions. IE many doctors/researchers all dismissed the same thing.
• Anonbrit 2y ago
  There's a whole article there talking about measurable immune system changes from post-vaccine syndrome... How do you explain those away? Psychosomatic changes to White blood cell counts?
  • rcpt 2y ago
    > 42 LISTEN participants who reported symptoms of PVS and 22 individuals who did not report any PVS symptoms
    • cempaka 2y ago
      How are they psychosomatically conjuring spike proteins into their bloodstream?
      • rcpt 2y ago
        With p-values