[deleted] t1_iw2rsyy wrote
How do they differentiate between people who have all these relatively common (aside from anosmia) symptoms from other sources?
Muscadine76 t1_iw2vajo wrote
From the article: “Details of new symptoms since January 2020, their duration, and whether their onset was contemporaneous with an acute infectious episode were collected.”
So they did specifically ask about the symptoms being new, and whether they started around the time of infection.
Eis_Gefluester t1_iw651gd wrote
And they trust that peoples memory serve them right (especially with memory loss) and that they don't have any confirmation bias?
Muscadine76 t1_iw76dvm wrote
Any retrospective study is inherently limited by possible misremembering, which is discussed in the limitations of this study, but taken alongside findings from a swath of studies that align with this study there’s not any particular reason to believe percentages are off by any great degree. Also, for example, loss of smell or taste is a rare and remarkable symptom that people are unlikely to misremember or misattribute.
theorange1990 t1_iw6nvjn wrote
They got the symptom when they got infected, and the symptom continued after not having covid.
ackillesBAC t1_iw2ualz wrote
I was just going to say a lot of these symptoms sound like basic aging
Muscadine76 t1_iw2vkln wrote
The thing is you could be right in a way even if it’s Covid-induced - Covid could be causing accelerated biological aging processes in certain respects.
ackillesBAC t1_iw2wo0p wrote
That's interesting. Means the is no cure for it unless they figure out how to reverse aging
Muscadine76 t1_iw2x2e0 wrote
Yes, it’s kind of bleak, that’s why many health care practitioners and researchers are sounding alarm bells around a coming wave of disability society is going to have to deal with.
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