Re:Belief in Having Had Covid-19 Linked with Long Covid Symp...
by tpoacher on Sunday March 27, 2022 @06:45PM
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> why do you think the article is more consistent with the other direction of causality?
Ah, the authors actually make their intended direction clear towards the end of the abstract:
> The results “suggest that physical symptoms persisting 10 to 12 months after the COVID-19 pandemic first wave may be associated more with the belief in having experienced COVID-19 infection than with actually being infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus,” the authors wrote in JAMA Internal Medicine.
Ah, the authors actually make their intended direction clear towards the end of the abstract:
> The results “suggest that physical symptoms persisting 10 to 12 months after the COVID-19 pandemic first wave may be associated more with the belief in having experienced COVID-19 infection than with actually being infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus,” the authors wrote in JAMA Internal Medicine.