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by iloveyouocean 1795 days ago
My first, selfish question: When will the article that examines cognitive function in recovered people who were fully vaccinated before contracting COVID arrive?
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Reading the results, the less severe the case the less severe the impact. Effects were severe for hospitalized patients, and mild for mild cases. Hospitalization is rare among vaccinated people.
That'll take a long time.

Since the vaccines are excellent at preventing serious outcomes, a fairly large share of the infected won't even go to a physician, and therefore getting a representative sample of infected people will be all of difficult, expensive and time-consuming.

Maybe there exists a set of people who ⓐ resembles the general population and ⓑ will be tested routinely and often for years to come, such that an accurate statistical picture can be found. But I can't think of any now.

OT - how do you make those circled symbols? A tool or do you have a nice keyboard combo for it? It makes this in-line summing up of points much clearer, I like it at least at first sight.
I really like those ;) They're not as practically useful as —, ⅓, → and a few others, but I really like them. I type compose (a) to get ⓐ. See https://rant.gulbrandsen.priv.no/xcompose for how I did it, it's mostly a matter of using someone else's .xcompose file from github.
That may depend (or be influenced by) on whether the results are negative or positive versus unvaccinated and who advertises in said journal.