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Yeah, it's a rebranding of what we used to call "post-viral fatigue" or "post-viral syndrome", except specific to this one virus.
by Izkata 3mo ago
Yeah, it's a rebranding of what we used to call "post-viral fatigue" or "post-viral syndrome", except specific to this one virus.
- PaulKeeble 3mo agoPost viral fatigue has a limited time frame, you recover from it. Long Covid is a lot more like ME/CFS, looks similar to PVF early on but you don't recover from it and the symptoms often progress and get worse and some people die from it. Its a lifelong severely disabling condition.
- jMyles 3mo agoIs the term "long covid" specific to COVID-19 though (in other words, excluding oc43, hku1, 299e, and nl61)? Or does it mean "long coronavirus disease", including all covids? I see it being used both ways.
- Izkata 3mo agoI don't know if it's drifted, but it was created in late 2020/2021 specifically for COVID-19.
- jMyles 3mo agoSurely it's strange to use the term "long covid" to describe the effects of only one covid, when at least four others have been circulating for decades or more and have been causing similar effects?