| SvennoJ said: While on the one side we're getting the death rate down, on the other, long term symptoms seem to be more widespread than previously thought. |
I wonder how much of that boils down to epistemic feedback. That is to say, the experimenter interpreting information to conform to a hypothesis, and the subject suffering from the nocebo effect by virtue of being aware of a previous Covid-19 diagnosis. I'm not accusing anyone of deliberate systematic bias, mind you, just that such variables would be virtually impossible to exclude from the null hypothesis without a double-blind study (which is why these "long Covid" studies go anywhere from 0% to 100%, so this one is not even at the higher range).
It looks like at least a few people develop a dysfunctional immune response that goes on to attack their own organs after the disease, but to that extent? I think the social and medical consequences would have been far more obvious during the last summer if that was the case, as opposed to deaths and medical appointments falling below the long-term average.
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