Long-haul symptoms affect majority of Covid-19 patients, UA study finds

Pointing out these facts because the results are far from conclusive, and thus may not be representative of the population at large.

We don't need vaccines, we need to start taking care of our bodies. If you look at countries where the majority of people are educated and in good shape like Sweden, covid deaths are near 0 now because natural immunity has taken care of it.

That has to be significantly higher after 20 months of “breathe and your dead!” news coverage.

> because stress/anxiety is a symptom that many persons may be experiencing due to the pandemic, and not due to COVID-19 per se, we quantified the number of individuals who experienced stress/anxiety as their only symptom

> We found that only 6 participants reported stress/anxiety as their sole symptom, demonstrating that our PASC prevalence is not driven by this non-specific symptom.

That said, completely agree that the study is fairly low quality and has many confounding factors, see my other responses here for further commentary.

That said, you're probably getting some down votes because it's well established in the scientific literature that COVID-19 encompasses all of these symptoms.

Here's the cited paper [1]. The sample size is small with significant bias in the demographics and plenty of confounding factors that were not controlled. The results should be taken with a large grain of salt. IMO the title of OP should read: "Long-haul symptoms may affect majority of Covid-19 patients, UA study finds".

Highlights:

> 303 people who had a positive PCR or antigen test and were not hospitalized for their illness were surveyed.

> Participants had a mean age of 44 years (range 12-82 years), were mostly female (70%), non-Hispanic white (68%), with college or greater education (38%), and with at least one pre-existing chronic condition (67%). The most commonly reported pre-existing conditions were seasonal allergies (42%), asthma (16%) and hypertension (15%).

> At ≥ 30 days follow-up, 208 of 303 (68.7%) participants reported experiencing persistent symptoms.

> The 10 most commonly reported symptoms among individuals with PASC at >30 days post-positive test fatigue (37.5%); shortness of breath (37.5%); brain fog (30.8%); stress (30.8%); altered smell or taste (26.4%); body aches or muscle pains (26.0%); insomnia (22.1%); headaches (20.7%); joint pain (20.2%); and congestion or runny nose (19.2%)

[1] Post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 in a non-hospitalized cohort: results from the Arizona CoVHORT https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

When I finally talked to the guy: "General lung irritation, possibly due to postnasal drip, take a sample of this anti-allergy nasal spray". I think I used it once or twice, but mainly it just cleared up all on its own.

This was a dozen years ago, long before covid.

I guess what I'm saying is: There were a million problems your body could have before covid, most of them not life threatening, and those issues are still around even with this scary disease running rampant.