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https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/oct/12/long-covid-coronavirus-data-symptoms-causes-studies>
"Earlier this year, CDC researchers pored through millions of American health
records looking for patients who might have long Covid. But figuring out who
has the condition isn’t easy.
That’s because there is no test for long Covid.
In fact, scientists still don’t know what exactly causes it.
Long Covid is a catchall term to describe an array of symptoms people
experience weeks or months after they recover from Covid-19, usually when they
are no longer infectious. Some people have reported experiencing several of
them; others report just one or two.
That’s why the CDC researchers looked at how many people experienced at least
one of the
symptoms of long Covid.
But they had to figure out which of these were caused by Covid, and which were
caused by something else – because many of these symptoms, like being
excessively fatigued, can be caused by long Covid or a host of other unrelated
conditions.
So the researchers sorted through nearly 2m electronic health records and
separated people who have had a positive Covid-19 diagnosis and people who
haven’t. Then they looked for symptoms."
Via Doug Senko, who wrote "This a pretty disturbing and scary analysis of “long
COVID“".
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
Tue, 1 Nov 2022 05:25:22 +1100
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
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https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/oct/12/long-covid-coronavirus-data-symptoms-causes-studies>
"Earlier this year, CDC researchers pored through millions of American health
records looking for patients who might have long Covid. But figuring out who
has the condition isn’t easy.
That’s because there is no test for long Covid.
In fact, scientists still don’t know what exactly causes it.
Long Covid is a catchall term to describe an array of symptoms people
experience weeks or months after they recover from Covid-19, usually when they
are no longer infectious. Some people have reported experiencing several of
them; others report just one or two.
That’s why the CDC researchers looked at how many people experienced at least
one of the symptoms of long Covid.
But they had to figure out which of these were caused by Covid, and which were
caused by something else – because many of these symptoms, like being
excessively fatigued, can be caused by long Covid or a host of other unrelated
conditions.
So the researchers sorted through nearly 2m electronic health records and
separated people who have had a positive Covid-19 diagnosis and people who
haven’t. Then they looked for symptoms."
Via Violet Blue’s
Pandemic Roundup: October 13, 2022
https://www.patreon.com/posts/pandemic-roundup-73246405
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
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