Covid learning loss has been a global disaster

Re:Covid learning loss has been a global disaster by peteradio on Sunday July 10, 2022 @09:37AM (#32044623)

"I don't think you can generalize [the study] to everybody, but really for people that have risk factors for severe disease," he says, because veterans tend to be older and have more health conditions."

This is not a controlled study, its comparative across number of reinfections. There can be a correlation between overall health and ability to be reinfected. If your health is poor you will be overall more likely to experience death etc as well as symptomatic Covid infection.

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Re:Covid learning loss has been a global disaster by D_Alex on Sunday July 10, 2022 @10:33AM (#32045121)

>"I don't think you can generalize [the study] to everybody... because veterans...

It would be weird if veterans were the opposite to everyone else though.

>here can be a correlation between overall health and ability to be reinfected

But the study is about the severity of reinfection rather than the frequency

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Re:Covid learning loss has been a global disaster by peteradio on Sunday July 10, 2022 @11:08AM (#32045449)

You are implying this study shows more reinfections causes rather than is merely coorelated with poor condition. Nothing wrong with doing the study but you can't just ignore confounders to the point you are attempting to drive.

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