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Comment by mikeyouse

There's a popular opinion I've seen on HN that "long Covid" isn't a real phenomenon but it's pretty easy to reject that out of hand. There have been several studies, including a recent quadruple blinded one (where participants, care providers, investigators and outcomes assessors are all blinded to treatment/control groups) that show some interventions have statistically significant benefits to treating it;

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

It's obviously a real thing, post-viral syndrome/fatigue are well known illnesses and there's every reason to think some percentage of Covid cases would end up similarly.

parent mikeyouse 3 years ago

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