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"Of the 661 participants, 178 (27%) had antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 indicating they had been infected. "

While this is good news, I'm not exactly going to bet the house on this being 100% concrete when only 178 infections were in this test

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Sounds like a pretty broad statement to make for such a low number.

The only data point I have - a 21 year old runner friend of mine was hit with COVID pretty hard at the start of the pandemic and to this day can't run anymore. Breathing problems. Constantly out of breath.

Not saying this is typical but it's a pretty devastating result to just be dismissed by the conclusion of this study.

The study excludes the minority of young people who get severe breathing problems in the acute phase of the disease so your friend would not be included. The result just shows that the large majority that does not get severe breathing problems in the acute phase (in fact most young people do not get any symptoms at all) does not get long term lung damage.

Did somebody even expect that people who did not have lung function affected would develop a long term lung issues?

and the qualification that there was no effect on lung function "apart from those who experienced a severe infection", which pokes a hole in the headline as well

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