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Re:Long Covid has had a brutal effect on the workforce, stud... by 6177c40f on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @08:17PM (#35176503)
It may be that that ultimately proves to be the most likely explanation, but I strongly disagree with the level of certainty you're attaching to that claim in this case.
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Re:Long Covid has had a brutal effect on the workforce, stud... by pseudo0 on Thursday March 16, 2023 @12:19AM (#35178099)
The correlation with anxiety disorders makes me highly skeptical of long COVID claims:

> “We were surprised by how strongly psychological distress before a COVID-19 infection was associated with an increased risk of long COVID,” said Siwen Wang, a researcher in the Department of Nutrition at Harvard Chan School who led the study. “Distress was more strongly associated with developing long COVID than physical health risk factors such as obesity, asthma, and hypertension.”

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/09/depression-an...

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Re:Long Covid has had a brutal effect on the workforce, stud... by randm_sequence on Thursday March 16, 2023 @07:39AM (#35180675)
It is well known that psychological distress can weaken the immune system making individuals less able to clear a novel virus.
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Re:Long Covid has had a brutal effect on the workforce, stud... by nyolfen on Friday March 17, 2023 @11:00AM (#35197959)
surely this should be reflected in mortality rates, then, right? and yet...
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