To address a couple of the questions brought up below -
the study included, as control groups, people diagnosed in the same period with influenza and with other respiratory diseases.
Between those groups and the groups diagnosed with COVID, there were notable increases in a set of outcomes like intracranial hemorrhage and ischemic stroke, which are medical outcomes that would be hard to tie to isolation, especially when controlling with others who also had respiratory illnesses in the same period.
Yes, but it doesn't excuse the alarming and misleading headline. The one third includes 24% of patients showing mood and related disorders, compared to 21% for other respiratory diseases.
Covid is bad enough as it is. It's no reason to run roughshod over basic journalistic principles.
To address a couple of the questions brought up below - the study included, as control groups, people diagnosed in the same period with influenza and with other respiratory diseases.
Between those groups and the groups diagnosed with COVID, there were notable increases in a set of outcomes like intracranial hemorrhage and ischemic stroke, which are medical outcomes that would be hard to tie to isolation, especially when controlling with others who also had respiratory illnesses in the same period.