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Comment by phreeza | Hacker News Reader

Please take a look at the study before making such an offhand comment. It clearly shows that these effects are more likely for people who actually got COVID than for the control cohort, who experienced the same lockdown measures, by a factor of 80%.

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While I agree that it was an offhand comment, if you look closely at the chart you posted, the weakest correlation is on the bottom right under "mood, anxiety, and psychotic disorders" which is what I believe OP was implying. Under that category, you only see a small difference between the COVID-19 and "other RTI" populations.

People who got covid19 during a lockdown were also more likely to be in harrowing situations: working 'essential' jobs, living in multigen households in constant fear of infecting loved ones, etc.

I don't think that this is an effective control. Of course people who got the virus are during the lockdown are even more likely to have traumatic effects from the lockdown. I'm surprised it's only 80%.

> All cohorts included patients older than 10 years who had an index event on or after Jan 20, 2020

I thought lockdown measures basically eliminated influenza diagnoses. Lockdown measures also occurred well after Jan 20, 2020.

What’s the temporal distribution of control cases vs. COVID cases? Were the vast majority of control cases diagnosed before lockdown measures?

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