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Re:SARS-CoV-2 infects human adipose tissue and elicits an in... by jquery on Friday December 10, 2021 @12:01PM (#29512202)
It’s really easy to discard that study. Someone who thinks they had COVID-19 and didn’t even bother getting tested is likely to have had a more severe case. Maybe it wasn’t even a case of COVID-19 but a severe viral infection nonetheless. Meanwhile serology positives would show up even after mild infection.
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Re:SARS-CoV-2 infects human adipose tissue and elicits an in... by whimsicalism on Friday December 10, 2021 @12:04PM (#29512256)
It's really easy to discard if you don't know what a serology test is, that's for sure.
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Re:SARS-CoV-2 infects human adipose tissue and elicits an in... by jquery on Saturday December 11, 2021 @02:55PM (#29523724)
A serology test is just proof of prior infection. It says nothing about the severity and would even count asymptomatic cases. So the study is comparing apples and oranges.
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Re:SARS-CoV-2 infects human adipose tissue and elicits an in... by whimsicalism on Sunday December 12, 2021 @09:51AM (#29530060)
1. Antibody positives are more likely the more severe the case of covid

2. Your point was that people with more severe covid would

> thinks they had COVID-19 and didn’t even bother getting tested

The problem with that theory is that the serology testing in this study was conducted on everybody so whether or not people chose to get tested when they had covid was irrelevant. The fact that perceived infection correlates higher with these symptoms means that these symptoms are more related to someone's self perception of infection than any physical change.

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