I'm seeing this fucking article everywhere. Capital loves this so hard.
The asshole didn't publish his findings. There's no link anywhere to the article. I did a good faith search in Google Scholar and Pubmed, and can't find his findings. He's going to present his findings to a fucking conference in a months time. For those of you who don't know, the bar of entry to academic conferences is much lower than an academic journal. ECCMID isn't even a prestigious conference, they'll accept nearly everyone that submits and pays. Conferences are considered just the beginning of the scientific journey, before the research goes further and gets actual peer review in an actual journal.
For those of you who don't know, John Gerrard was brought in as chief health minister to Queensland specifically to transition to open the country up and forget about COVID. Nearly 100% of the COVID cases and deaths happened after his tenure started. Fuck him
Sorry for the pedantic formatting, but this upsets me so hard.
It does sound plausible enough, with the problem then being that basically everyone is repeatedly getting Covid whereas flu is far less common and people with compromised immune systems can more effectively vaccinate against it. So that serious complications from Covid are still far more prevalent. Not sure why that would mean we should dismiss the term ‘long Covid’ though, when the vast majority of people having post-infection problems are going to have contracted them via Covid.
The study afaik was based off results from a phone survey too, so it’s interesting but it obviously needs a lot more investigation.
thing is there's been a lot more investigation that has indicated the severity and distinctiveness of long covid compared to other post-viral illnesses. At this point it's only in the realm of public opinion and media propaganda that long covid does not or might not exist - in the scientific community long covid has become a relatively well-accepted diagnosis. This is a single unpublished study from a guy who has been trying to manufacture an end to this pandemic since he was brought in; there's plenty of studies out there that are better done and refute the conclusions to which this study seems to have come.