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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As another poster alluded to, the studies into long covid have really done a disservice to the small set of people that are actually suffering from serious, long-term issues.

There's been such pressure to define "long covid" broadly to be able to claim it's a huge problem. But that means these studies end up being overwhelmed with participants with mild, lingering symptoms that end up resolving on their own in weeks, just like we see with other respiratory infections.

It's been pretty clear for a while that there's a strong psychosomatic component to long covid. By having test subjects self-identify to enroll, this study leans heavily into that. It's no surprise that people with anxiety are heavily overrepresented.

Hopefully we'll see some more responsible long covid studies following up to this one. [/quote]

The rhetoric around long Covid has gotten out of control, there are people who believe that people are "dying" of long Covid and that this is the most important medical issue we face as a society. It's just bonkers.

Meanwhile, many/most long Covid symptoms can be caused by extreme stress (fatigue, anxiety, depression, brain fog, headaches including migraine) and lots of people are under extreme stress whether they've had a mild case of Covid or not. Why are we fixating on Covid in those cases? Why not just address the symptoms that appear to be a broad response to increased stress loads across the board? People would rather believe they have neurological decline due to a brief bout with Covid than that they are actually experiencing a common symptom of stress due to health anxiety, quarantines, social alienation, parenting without social support, financial distress caused by inflation and economic instability, etc.

Like I guess I have long Covid, even though I've never had Covid, because I have most of the symptoms.[/quote]

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