Heart-disease risk soars after Covid, even with a mild case

Re:Heart-disease risk soars after Covid, even with a mild case by Thorentis on Friday February 11, 2022 @03:29AM (#30298708)

> For example, people in the contemporary control group weren’t tested for COVID-19, so it’s possible that some of them actually had mild infections.

How doesn't this completely invalidate the title? If we aren't actually comparing between a group that provably did not have COVID and one that did, we can't possibly draw any conclusions about the effect of having COVID compared to not having it at all.

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Re:Heart-disease risk soars after Covid, even with a mild case by MauranKilom on Friday February 11, 2022 @04:10AM (#30299089)

Isn't it the opposite? If there's a strong effect in "had COVID" vs "probably did not have COVID", doesn't that prove that there would be an even stronger effect in "had COVID" vs "definitely did not have COVID"?

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Re:Heart-disease risk soars after Covid, even with a mild case by Thorentis on Friday February 11, 2022 @04:28AM (#30299220)

But where did "probably did not get" come from? It is highly likely that COVID numbers are far higher than we know about due to many mild and asymptomatic cases that go undetected.

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Re:Heart-disease risk soars after Covid, even with a mild case by MauranKilom on Friday February 11, 2022 @08:29AM (#30301214)

That makes the case even stronger. Not sure where you're going with this. Unless you want to imply that everyone has had COVID already, the argument works the same.

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Re:Heart-disease risk soars after Covid, even with a mild case by blangkz on Friday February 11, 2022 @05:24PM (#30307731)

Why is that highly likely?

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