8 people as the entire control group... yeah I'd say "may" is the operative word in the title. My takeaway from long covid is that it's probably as severe as the much more deadly pandemic of the Spanish Flu. Considering there's now a newfound interest in "long flu", I think a spotlight has now been placed on the impact of severe respiratory illness. Whether that illness be covid or one of the any other respiratory illnesses.

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jambalaya8 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Yeah, twelve patients and eight in the control group isn't really a study.

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thenerdhead 2 hours ago | parent [-]

is a small proof of concept study not a study anymore? gastric biopsies aren’t exactly easy to obtain at scale.

	▲	Fomite 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		They are studies, and frankly, without something like this, doing things like the appropriate power calculations and risk assessments for larger studies would be hard to do.

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thenerdhead 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

severity is only one factor in developing long covid.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3...

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naturalmovement 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Funny that reactive arthritis has been around for decades but no one dares call it "long chlamydia" I guess it doesn't sell YouTube clicks as well.

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	▲	dmix 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Usually they add “chronic” like chronic Lyme disease https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_Lyme_disease
	▲	fsckboy an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		wikipedia: Reactive arthritis, previously known as Reiter's syndrome,[1] is a form of inflammatory arthritis[2] that develops in response to an infection in another part of the body (cross-reactivity). Coming into contact with bacteria and developing an infection can trigger the disease.[3] By the time a person presents with symptoms, the "trigger" infection has often been cured or is in remission in chronic cases, thus making determination of the initial cause difficult. The most common triggers are intestinal infections (with Salmonella, Shigella or Campylobacter) and sexually transmitted infections (with Chlamydia trachomatis);[8] however, it also can happen after group A streptococcal infections.[9][10]

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jMyles 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It's strange that the phrase "long covid" has suddenly jumped into our lexicon, when there has been a similar tiny minority of patients reporting similar symptoms from the other coronaviruses for decades now.

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. But increased study and awareness of post-infection syndromes without the kind of high-brow dismissal that these patients have received up until now... well, that's certainly an acceptable silver lining.

	▲	Izkata 4 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah, it's a rebranding of what we used to call "post-viral fatigue" or "post-viral syndrome", except specific to this one virus.