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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Isn't the takeaway this, which most people here don't seem to be understanding: the physical ailments that would generally be responsible for causing the reported symptoms of "long Covid" are not present in higher rates in the Covid test group than in the control group. Meaning, there is, according to this study, no evidence of Covid causing long-term health problems. There is some evidence that those symptoms may be caused by underlying anxiety. So many posters seem to be interpreting this as "long term Covid exists and we still don't know why."[/quote]

Yes, that is the conclusion (the "scientist's" objection notwithstanding), and it is congruent with all other Long Covid studies that had a proper control group. The problem isn't that we don't have the proper tests to pinpoint the physiological cause. The problem is that there is no statistical difference in the prevalence of these symptoms between the test group and the control group, and therefore no evidence that the virus caused the symptoms.[/quote]

Some experts disagree that the testing was adequate:

[url]https://www.npr.org/2022/05/23/1100878802/a-new-federal-study-is-trying-to-solve-some-of-the-mysterious-about-long-covid[/url]

In any event, this study did not find that the control group not previously infected with COVID had the same symptoms as the long COVID group (although I understand that other studies have).

We all hope that long COVID is rare, especially in vaccinated people. Many people have understandable anger about what was lost due to COVID precautions. However, claiming that long COVID is a mental illness is unjustifiably cruel and blind to the fact that, whatever the cause, many people are suffering with an array of symptoms following a COVID infection. The fact that the medical community can't explain it does not mean that these problems don't exist or that they weren't caused by COVID.

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