Re:Cellular immunity to SARS-CoV2 found at 6 months in non-h...
by ljf on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @02:33AM
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Fair enough, give it time. On the inverse - SARs which this seems to be similar in some ways to (though more transmissible and less deadly) is well known to have a wide range of long term effects on a proportion of those that get ill with it.
Come join some of the long covid reddit, Facebook, slack or other groups if you want to research first hand - there are plenty out there!
To me, it's not the position that Covid has long term effects that's incredulous, because we know that a proportion of a lot of viral infections can develop into longer term complications and effects. But it's the idea/observation that the longer term effects are both comparatively worse than other viruses, and splitting the quantumn of those effects into a "general covid effect" (that is to say, the probability of the effect for a given case of covid), and those of a "general pandemic effect" (that is to say, the population-size effect of having all these infections happening at once due to a relatively vulnerable population with little immunity, in contrast to some of the older/other viruses).
But I admit myself a little more than disturbed how every time I ask to see comparable figures/studies to see how we have knowledge of long-term effects of a virus that's only been around for the short-term, and claims that are usually made without any reference to the viruses to which covid needs to be compared, that I generally get hit by a quick wave of downvotes.