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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the link above is extremely harmful.  If long covid sufferers hadn’t emerged in large numbers at the same time and included medical personnel their symptoms would have been discounted.  Lyme and the coinfections are a slow trickle.  We now know long covid is real.  There is emerging evidence it is in some part due to persistence of the organism.  It’s not a leap to put Lyme+ in a similar basket.  The veterinary world is getting ahead of this as their practitioners are disproportionally affected.  I also suggest the Washington post book.  There are many charlatans out there.  I’m not denying that at all.  However many of the points in this link are demonstrably false.  Also the Johns Hopkins dept mentioned above is only if you have Lyme and are not coinfected.  So a great resource for some but not all.[/quote]

There is actually no evidence that "long COVID" is any more common than post-viral reactions as a general matter. Of course those are really a thing, but doctors have always known that.

That said, the big issue in Lyme world is people insisting they have lyme 1+ years on with no definitive Lyme symptoms during the early/normal illness period, absolutely no diagnostic testing that indicates Lyme & a constellation of symptoms that could literally be anything (including a post-viral reaction). It does not mean that Lyme doesn't exist (of course it does) or even that some small number of these cases could be Lyme... but most of them are not & they are quacks praying on actually sick patients.[/quote]

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