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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have been reading something about how your immune system can sustain damage from multiple cumulative COVID infections.  I think I have had it four or five times. Ifeel like at some point in the future it might be useful to be able to answer the question “how many times have you had Covid” if doctors start asking. [/quote]

You may have read it, but it doesn't make it true. The problem with those studies is that they basically only count cases where the individual sought treatment. So not only are you looking at the set of people unhealthy enough already to have moderate to severe covid, you're looking at increasingly niche sets of individuals that have had moderate-to-severe covid multiple times.

The vast majority of people, including old and immunocompromised people, don't need to seek treatment for infection. Much less do they need to do for multiple infections.[/quote]
This. Many of these studies use Veterans Admin data sets where participants are predominantly old, overweight men who were former smokers and who have multiple co-morbidities. If you didn't know better, you'd almost think they were looking for a bad result before they began the study...[/quote]

Yes, the data source is already bad, but the even bigger problem was the methodology.

Yes, there's going to be a correlation between long-term health outcomes and numbers of identified, symptomatic infections.

But they're getting causation backwards. Chronic health problems lead to a higher risk of moderate-to-severe illness from covid, resulting in more infections being identified in those individuals. The infections aren't causing the chronic health problems.[/quote]
Exactly.[/quote]

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