Re:Israel data reportedly shows efficacy drop of Pfizer-BioN...
by spywaregorilla on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @02:12PM
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If it's a placebo effect then we should not consider long covid to be an important aspect of the vaccine strategy.
I don't think it's a placebo so much as just typical persistent flu symptoms and people misattributing other problems to their COVID case.
Which is not to regurgitate the meme about covid just being the flu, but if your body is weak and fights off a problematic disease, its not crazy that it takes a long time to heal fully. My original point, poorly worded, was mostly that if you're reducing hospitalizations, you're going to reduce long covid. It's not a mysterious orthogonal effect.
I don't think it's a placebo so much as just typical persistent flu symptoms and people misattributing other problems to their COVID case.
Which is not to regurgitate the meme about covid just being the flu, but if your body is weak and fights off a problematic disease, its not crazy that it takes a long time to heal fully. My original point, poorly worded, was mostly that if you're reducing hospitalizations, you're going to reduce long covid. It's not a mysterious orthogonal effect.