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by seanmcdirmid 1060 days ago
> I really think medical science gets many things wrong and knows only a small piece of puzzle on how the human body works, and people with long covid are stuck in that knowledge gap.

Medical science is definitely limited. Studying a human system is essentially reverse engineering combined with something we can’t create in the first place. So doctors accumulate data, somehow make progress on life expectancies, but still a lot is unknown, and they don’t really claim otherwise.