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by psychlops 980 days ago
Good points and thank you for taking the time to clarify. I would still contend that knowing that unvaccinated people getting long covid does not provide any insight into vaccinated people getting long covid.

And I'm happy to amend my statement to "For this to be logical, you need to state that vaccinated people (who never had covid) do not have long covid."
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stetrain 980 days ago
> I would still contend that knowing that unvaccinated people getting long covid does not provide any insight into vaccinated people getting long covid.

Right, but it does provide insight into the vaccine being the primary cause of long COVID, rather than an actual COVID infection.

So it depends on how you interpret “the vaccine causes long COVID” meaning exclusive to or inclusive of COVID also causing long COVID.

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stetrain 980 days ago
And additionally

"vaccinated people (who never had covid) do not have long covid."

seems very difficult to study in the general population given the prevalence of COVID infections among the population and the ability for people to not know or test whether they have had COVID, even if they did have a mild infection.

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