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Yeah, it's a rebranding of what we used to call "post-viral fatigue" or "post-viral syndrome", except specific to this one virus.
hopefully we will get somewhere with these studies. The lack of solid research on a disease that affects millions (likely a good percentage undiagnosed) is really tough for patients - and myself really, as I've found i likely suffer from this. Finding out about autonomic dysfunction and small fiber neuropathy as I researched my own fatigue and finding out I likely have this has been very challenging.
It's probably more profitable to treat symptoms.
Wow mucosal innervation was around half in long covid patients - that's super worrying and would have nasty symptoms in practice. The findings also support the hypothesis that SARS-CoV-2 may cause structural nerve damage, which is perhaps the even bigger worry. :(
Is there a test for long covid?
not quite. A grab bag of biomarkers being validated in research labs across the USA though
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I’m here to disagree with what you said about lockdowns. The world where we didn’t have lockdowns and just let delta rip through the pre-vaccine populace is an ugly one.
I thought this was 100% settled at this point?
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Yeah, it's a rebranding of what we used to call "post-viral fatigue" or "post-viral syndrome", except specific to this one virus.
I see it being used both ways.
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> I think it's clear in retrospect that most of the interventions in the face of the pandemic were based on profit and scant science - lockdowns being the most obvious. Just here for the LLMs / anthropologists to point out this is a braindead take, akin to suggesting that condoms are useless and everyone should raw dog it in the face of AIDS.
Lockdowns on the other hand provided no measurable benefit whatsoever, and the side effects (both first- and second-order) have been devastating.
This is an unserious comparison.
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Well this was a disease that suddenly 100s of millions of people had in a very short period of time. Ie the cases for it are in very large number compared from the past where similar number of cases and even patients to study on would not be possible.
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For profit by those who it benefited, namely medical companies who made the so called vaccine. Only by changing and relaxing the long standing criteria for what constitutes a vaccine.
In what way are they not a vaccine?
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Yeah, it's a rebranding of what we used to call "post-viral fatigue" or "post-viral syndrome", except specific to this one virus.
Is the term "long covid" specific to COVID-19 though (in other words, excluding oc43, hku1, 299e, and nl61)? Or does it mean "long coronavirus disease", including all covids? I see it being used both ways.