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Like "Long COVID", "post covid vaccine syndrome" is probably psychosomatic.

There's a whole article there talking about measurable immune system changes from post-vaccine syndrome... How do you explain those away? Psychosomatic changes to White blood cell counts?

> 42 LISTEN participants who reported symptoms of PVS and 22 individuals who did not report any PVS symptoms

How are they psychosomatically conjuring spike proteins into their bloodstream?

With p-values

> Like "Long COVID", "post covid vaccine syndrome" is probably psychosomatic.

Evidence?

Lots of research on Long COVID points this way

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9825049/

Not to say it isn't real. It is. But just like back pain or headaches there's a good chance it's mostly explained by psychology.

A doctor dismissing something they don’t know the cause of as psychological is common, but that doesn’t mean the diagnosis is correct.

Many things used to be thought of as psychological before we found the underlying physical causes. It’s just as meaningless an explanation as “God did it.”

A collection of papers with citations and data isn't "a doctor dismissing something they don't know"

Those examples I referred to where the generally accepted practice not just individual opinions. IE many doctors/researchers all dismissed the same thing.

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