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'Long Covid': Why are Some People not Recovering?

posted by Fnord666 on Monday October 12 2020, @02:59PM   Printer-friendly

takyon writes:

'Long Covid': Why are some people not recovering?

For most people, Covid-19 is a brief and mild disease but some are left struggling with symptoms including lasting fatigue, persistent pain and breathlessness for months.

The condition known as "long Covid" is having a debilitating effect on people's lives, and stories of being left exhausted after even a short walk are now common.

So far, the focus has been on saving lives during the pandemic, but there is now a growing recognition that people are facing long-term consequences of a Covid infection.

Yet even basic questions - such as why people get long Covid or whether everyone will fully recover - are riddled with uncertainty.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 13 2020, @01:22PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 13 2020, @01:22PM (#1063966)

    So you got nothing then. Just dogmatic believe that vitamin c deficiency shouldn't be treated with vitamin c for some reason. Probably learned from a textbook written before the internet existed.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 13 2020, @09:13PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 13 2020, @09:13PM (#1064161)

    You are the one who started this by claiming that they had scurvy. Scurvy is not the same thing as Vitamin C deficiency and it doesn't have the same symptoms as COVID-19, long or short, acute or chronic. If they have a Vitamin C deficiency, then treat it. It is easy to spot because it is so obvious and fix because there are almost no side effects or adverse events. That's why hospitals are giving patients Vitamin C and D and others despite your claim that they aren't and such action is in the guidelines despite your claims its not. But not everything is a Vitamin C deficiency. The fact that the papers you cited disagree with your conclusion of scurvy on a basic analysis, if not on their face, and you don't see it speaks volumes. And a number of them says that patients don't have a symptom that you say they do and instead sound similar on their face. That probably comes from you not knowing your jargon and medical terms.

    But if you aren't, prove it instead of just relying on your feeling and focusing on where they look the same. Do the 2-way frequency table. You could do the statistical testing. Even better establish estimates of what the sensitivity and specificity of your diagnostic signs are. You could save tens of thousands of lives through your efforts, especially if you got it in a big journal or in the blogosphere. You could be a household name for making the connection between "long COVID" and Vitamin C deficiency despite the evidence being against you.