Belief in Having Had Covid-19 Linked with Long Covid Symptoms

Re:Belief in Having Had Covid-19 Linked with Long Covid Symp... by asdfasgasdgasdg on Thursday March 24, 2022 @10:33AM (#30790361)

I have no doubt that such people exist, but they can't be that common, right? And to the extent they do exist, wouldn't their symptoms have generally been extremely mild? So you would expect most such individuals to not believe they've had COVID and to not have long-COVID, and therefore not to confound the results of this study.

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Re:Belief in Having Had Covid-19 Linked with Long Covid Symp... by refurb on Thursday March 24, 2022 @10:39AM (#30790477)

In addition, it’s the immune response that likely leads to Covid organ damage so if an infection is interrupted so early as to not initiate an antibody response you’d expect any long covid effects to non-existent.

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Re:Belief in Having Had Covid-19 Linked with Long Covid Symp... by hprotagonist on Thursday March 24, 2022 @10:37AM (#30790454)

8.5 billion times a small percentage is still a pretty big number.

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Re:Belief in Having Had Covid-19 Linked with Long Covid Symp... by asdfasgasdgasdg on Thursday March 24, 2022 @10:42AM (#30790528)

I'm not understanding the relevance. We are talking about the proportions of folks that fall into various buckets. The absolute values don't enter into this conversation.

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Re:Belief in Having Had Covid-19 Linked with Long Covid Symp... by jhugo on Friday March 25, 2022 @12:25AM (#30798643)

I know quite a few people who believe that you can have long COVID without any initial symptoms, so it seems reasonable that there may be some people who got mild symptoms, believed it was COVID, and then have some ongoing symptoms that they attribute to that.

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