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Less than 20% of Covid-19 patients are symptom free a year after recovery

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16 pointsTimja14 comments

Covid-19 patients that had to be treated in a hospital, that is ("Individuals recovered from COVID-19 at three public hospitals in Madrid"). Or does "patient" already imply that?

Yes, I tried to put "hospital patients" into the title, but it was too long.

It's an important qualification.

Looks like I can still edit the title. Care to make a suggestion how to phrase it?

Use a < symbol instead of "less than", or change "a year after recovery" to "after a year" or something. The hospitalized part is pretty essential though.

Starting a title with a "<" sign seems pretty confusing to me.

And dropping the "after recovery" goes astray from the central point of the article. That we are mistaken when we think that people have recovered.

"Less than 20% of hospitalised COVID-19 patients symptom free after a year"

should work; it's easy to infer that "after a year" refers to their hospitalisation anyway. If that is still too long: "Less than 20% hospitalised COVID patients symptom free after a year"

Your dropped the "after recovery". Which I think is the central point of the article. That even when we consider people to have recovered, the majority still has symptoms.

What else would "after a year" mean though? People don't usually have COVID for that long.

Under 20% of in-patient COVID-19 infected symptom free a year after recovery

Interestingly, there was another article about Long Covid posted just before I posted this one. And that one has some theories on what the causes are:

https://www.cleveland.com/news/2022/10/in-cleveland-and-beyo...

It seems like the primary theory is that the virus is still in the body even when tests are negative.

And that the virus causes all kinds of immune responses which cause the symptoms.

It would be interesting to know which of those patients were vaccinated and which weren't...

Very few vaccinated. These people were discharged from hospital in Madrid before 16 May 2020, so the last patient will have been infected only about three months after the high-volume vaccination campaign started. If you assume that analysis and writing the paper took a month or two, then the last patient was infected maybe a month after vaccination started.

But considering how much the chance of hospitalisation is reduced, that'll probably still be the same today.

PASC happens regardless, which is freaking terrifying, and why I can't understand people in the West dropping masks and social distance and just happily justifying it with "I'm vaccinated, all's good", let's pretend it's over.

COVID has been terribly explained in the media, and emphasis now should be on how it is for way too many a chronic disease that people should avoid at all costs, a disease currently with no cure or treatment, which can turn you into a disabled person in the worst cases.

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