The Causes of Long Covid • Hacker News Board

Re: The Causes of Long Covid

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Post by genewitch » Sat, Jun 06, 2026, 1:03 PM UTC

defrost wrote: post #130

genewitch wrote: post #129

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well, you might be right oh wait https://nextcloud.projectftm.com/index.php/s/vaccine100perce... stand up when any of the numbers you mention show up! * note: you have to wait a bit since everyone said it was 100% effective

Have a real source? Maybe everyone you talked to or US press perhaps - here we ran with medical trials and epidemiologists. > everyone said it was 100% effective You're quoting idiots then - or second / third hand press reporting, or US/UK officials pressured by the US/UK admin of the time. Not everyone lived in a politically captured shitshow.

> Similar vaccine efficacy (generally 90 to 100%) was observed across subgroups defined by age, sex, race, ethnicity, baseline body-mass index, and the presence of coexisting conditions.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMoa2034577

also my source was i was cognizant during the 2020-2023 years and paying very close attention to every presser. the headlines comport with my memory of the reporting and the timeline of the efficacy decay.

Re: The Causes of Long Covid

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Post by MrBuddyCasino » Sat, Jun 06, 2026, 4:21 PM UTC

Earw0rm wrote: post #114

MrBuddyCasino wrote: post #88

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> we don't even have decent biochemical markers for "fatigue" vs "energy", beyond trivial stuff like blood oxygenation and lactic acid We do have devices that can measure mitochondrial energy production. There are two I think, forgot their names.

Yep, we can measure ATP and so on at the cellular level, but we don't have much of a picture of how that maps onto the physical/psychological sensation of "energy". Like we know at a crude physical level, we can give someone a bit of a boost with glucose and sympathomimetic stimulants, but sometimes it works a lot better than others. And it's ineffective for fatigue syndromes, but they can't be the other mechanical t…

I really hope we figure that one out soonish. There are so many people affected by these syndromes.

Re: The Causes of Long Covid

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Post by layoric » Sat, Jun 06, 2026, 11:15 PM UTC

Zobat wrote: post #59

layoric wrote: post #56

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> Basically "eat nothing". Thanks for this, reading "water fast" and "3 days" gave me a shot of adrenaline. The "water" prefix is just confusing, the word for abstaining from food is just "fast" for those interested. If this is engagement bait, then well played..

It is a specific type of fasting. Saying only "fasting" can mean a lot of things, saying "water fast" means you only drink water. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasting

Fair enough, thanks for sharing

Re: The Causes of Long Covid

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Post by motbus3 » Mon, Jun 08, 2026, 12:30 PM UTC

kranke155 wrote: post #78

motbus3 wrote: post #69

I know someone's case who got it 3 times. The first 2 times full recover in no time. The third one took couple of months and now feels tired all the time, lost all sense of taste and smell, swollen tongue, body pain of sitting still due to the compression of muscles. This person told me it was sure it was related to COVID because there was nothing before or after it and that was the only thing that happened. Kinda su…

Maybe tell this person to see an autonomic dysfunction expert.

Not sure if needed. It depends much on your exposure. If you have someone on your family it is a factor of risk. Which just makes things insane considering that they exploit it get couple hundred bucks more per insurance.

It has been cheaper to not work for the healthcare system lately. Also because people are a**oles to nurses and the rest of the staff.