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by MontyCarloHall
249 days ago
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>It is possible, but not to the degree that all long Covid cases are being confused with external factors. Didn't mean to imply that all cases are, just that our definition of and knowledge about long COVID is nebulous enough that some nontrivial proportion of cases are likely attributable to external factors. >Additionally, long Covid can cause brain fog. This was shown in brain scans from a popular HN post about a research paper just yesterday Absolutely, just as other infections can cause severe lingering symptoms [0]. But we don't really know how prevalent these are, nor the severity of the prevalence. Studies like the one you link typically select for the most severe cases. We don't know whether it's useful to generalize from those. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-acute_infection_syndrome |
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