[andric]

And Long COVID is shaping up to be our generation’s HIV/AIDS.

History rhymes because people don’t ever learn. We deal with one problem or crisis at a time, instead of generalizing what was learned in order to help future generations avoid the same mistakes.

[some_random]

I don't think you quite appreciate how fucking bad HIV/AIDS was, and is to this day.

[andric]

Why do you think I said Long COVID is shaping up to be like HIV/AIDS?

The parallels between the two are stark: How the CDC and NIH bungled public health advice and research funding, how clinicians are ill-equipped to treat it, how the public is clueless about the long-term harms of post-viral immune dysregulation [0].

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9608044/

[artursapek]

Are you seriously comparing AIDS to “long COVID”?

[andric]

Both AIDS and Long COVID are post-viral, multi-organ, chronic conditions that dysregulate the immune system, through many of the same mechanisms [0].

They are also conditions that severely affects the quality of life of those who are afflicted, increasing the risk of severe life-threatening illnesses [1].

Similar to the early years of the AIDS pandemic (which, I might add, is still ongoing), the harms of Long COVID are not widely understood or acknowledged in clinical practice or among the general population.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9608044/

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41579-022-00846-2

[DrThunder]

Long COVID isn't even legitimate and if it was it's not anywhere near the fatality rate of HIV/AIDS.

[andric]

It is legitimate.

See:

[0] https://covid19.nih.gov/covid-19-topics/long-covid

[1] Davis, H.E., McCorkell, L., Vogel, J.M. et al. Long COVID: major findings, mechanisms and recommendations. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41579-022-00846-2#citeas