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

Re:Belief in Having Had Covid-19 Linked with Long Covid Symp... by hcknwscommenter on Friday March 25, 2022 @10:24AM (#30802526)

That is a very long and detailed paper, so apologies if I missed it, but I don't see any evidence of a "large population" of folks that clear the infection quickly enough to avoid triggering an antibody response. All I see from that paper, is that such people exist.

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Re:Belief in Having Had Covid-19 Linked with Long Covid Symp... by amluto on Friday March 25, 2022 @03:43PM (#30806335)

If you’re willing to take extended data table 1 at face value [0], then perhaps 1/2 to 1/3 of the exposed cohort is in this category. This is at least moderately consistent with other data suggesting that at least around 2/3 of the naive population will contract COVID and test positive on PCR is exposed.

In other words, the authors found a population that apparently did clear the infection this quickly, and they didn’t scour a particular large cohort to find these people.

[0] which you shouldn’t.

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