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It sounds like you no longer have Covid, which is good. I hope you're feeling well.

I worry a little though that comments by people who had coronavirus suffer from survivorship bias - the ones who died rarely log onto HN.

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Well with a >99.95% survival rate in the under 50 age group, they are not exactly alone.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scena...

Survival shouldn’t be the only objective, there are plenty of lasting impacts that aren’t death experienced by many more people.

When 20m Americans have had it, you’re going to see some weird edge cases.

At such a high and serious rate?

Where do you see that rate in your source? You seem to be off by an order of magnitude.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01738-2

Edit: I misread your qualifier of "under 50 age group". Overall fatality rate seems to be around 0.4% according to the CDC site.

The over fatality rate is actually lower since that listed rate only applies to symptomatic patients. Given their estimate for Asymptomatic 35% you arrive at 0.26%.

Yeah, got it in late February, long since recovered. It was 4 days of feeling very shit and a month of feeling groggy.

Did you have a positive pcr test?

I mean Reddit is the opposite though. People all over the place claiming all kinds of health problems. So I’m thinking there are both sides the bias at work.

I'm also interested in the stories of people who have had lasting effects from COVID-19. I'm guessing that those stories also suffer from a bit of selection bias.

Talk to chronic Lyme disease victims sometime.

I know two coworkers going on 100+ days since they got it and they still can't taste or smell. One of them has the covid toes/fingers as well. They said that the doctors really don't have any answer for them.

What is covid toes/fingers?

Covid infected can present with Frostbite-like symptoms

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