Assuming no reinfections, we just passed one in ten people having tested positive for COVID :amerikkka-clap:

  • Pezevenk [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Everyone who gets covid doesn't get "permanent lung and nerve damage", this is ridiculous doomerism. There is a difference between "long term" and "permanent", and even in the case of long term side effects it's not nearly every case. There is a big issue with recall bias etc in some of the reports which inflated the prevalence of long term complications. Other reports overrepresent hospitalized cases while also mentioning that they have been found in "mild" cases too (mild generally means "not hospitalized" which can be anything but mild) misleading people into thinking it is more common than it is. A number of good studies have found that long term effects exist and especially in hospitalized cases, but it's not as crazy as some articles would have you believe.

    • howdyoudoo [comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      Everyone who gets covid doesn’t get “permanent lung and nerve damage”, this is ridiculous doomerism

      It's not, most people still have it after 13 months.

      also it's way more than 10%