Oh wow.
Well this is a new one.
I've never been gaslit quite like this before 😱
Earlier I read a post in r/Covid19positive... OP tested positive 5 days ago (their THIRD infection) and wanted to know if they were "clear to fly" on an airplane.
There were responses pleading with her not to fly and spread #Covid, that karma was a bitch, that they needed to rest, etc and she countered every single one of them.
So I stated that per Delta's... 1/
#CovidIsNotOver #LongCovid
2/
...CEO, & hence the CDC, fly away! But then laid out the probabilities of organ damage etc etc #LongCovid etc and that LC was much much worse than it sounded like their acute phase was and that since they were a self-proclaimed hypochondriac, that seems like it would horrid for them and their caregiver spouse.
I said I wouldn't shame them but advised rest.
I got over 5 upvotes & even a...
@justyourluck I'm curious, I've struggled to find good, up-to-date statistics giving best estimates for the likelihood of different long-term effects of Covid (of most interest to me are organ damage and cognitive effects). Most of what I have found is just aggregate rates for "long Covid" with heterogeneous definitions of what that means and lumping together really serious impacts with much less severe ones. Do you have suggestions of where to find good numbers?
Agreed, the lumping together of something w/ so many different not only symptoms but different systems of the body is really irritating. They really seem to focus on age.
I just found the National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C), which looks promising. https://ncats.nih.gov/research/research-activities/n3c
from this article:
Computable Phenotypes for Post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2: A National COVID Cohort Collaborative Analysis
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10785914/
from this thread by @augieray
https://mastodon.social/@augieray/111760959184150864
@justyourluck @internic If you haven't seen it, my spreadsheet of studies showing longer-term outcomes and risk of #COVID19 now has 400 studies:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12VbMkvqUF9eSggJsdsFEjKs5x0ABxQJi5tvfzJIDd3U/edit?usp=sharing
Thanks @augieray and @justyourluck I'll take a look at those and appreciate the help!
@internic @justyourluck https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/236034/lasting-brain-impacts-severe-covid-19-equivalent/