I know which of these two I consider gaslighting.
I know which of these two I consider gaslighting.
Long covid has yet to be scientifically proven.
after any critical illness, doesn't even have to be an infection, with an ICU stay where intubation was required, the odds are ~50% you will be left with a permanent injury for life. However even after relatively moderate infection a permanent lifelong injury may remain.
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/21161-post-in...
It's not like injuries are binary: dead or alive.
you could also end up alive, but in a wheelchair with oxygen for life.
There is a huge spectrum in between, anything from vague brainfog, properly known as executive dysfunction, to partial or total paralysis due to a neuropathy often requiring mechanical ventilation, narcolepsy, organ failures, autoimmune conditions, and so on and so on.
None of this is new, nor controversial.
Brain damage - https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01693-6
Pulmonary function - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7997144/
Cardiovascular disease - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41569-020-0413-9