The paper in the Journal of the American Medical Association's (JAMA) Network Open looked at "post-COVID-19 condition (PCC) in young people after mild acute infection" to find how common it was and to find risk factors. Participants were aged between 12 and 25.
The authors offer this straightforward conclusion: "PCC was not associated with biological markers specific to viral infection." That is, participants were equally likely to suffer from 'Long Covid', whether or not they had suffered from acute COVID-19.
The researchers concluded that Long Covid is predicted by "initial symptom severity" and, intriguingly, "psychosocial factors".
The full article is available on JAMA Network Open.
The main results from the present study were: (1) the prevalence of PCC six months after acute COVID-19 was approximately 50%, but was equally high in a control group of comparable SARS-CoV-2-negative individuals; (2) acute COVID-19 was not an independent risk factor for PCC; (3) the severity of clinical symptoms at baseline, irrespective of SARS-CoV-2 status, was the main risk factor of persistent symptoms six months later.Worth reading in full.
Symptom prevalence data are consistent with other controlled studies of young people after acute COVID-19 reporting a high symptom load, with only subtle differences between individuals testing positive and negative for SARS-CoV-2. Correspondingly, a large population-based study found no associations between most persistent symptoms attributed to COVID-19 and serological evidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection. ...
These findings suggest that persistent symptoms in this age group are related to factors other than SARS-CoV-2 infection, and therefore question the usefulness of the WHO case definition of PCC.
Stop Press: Civil Servants are three times more likely to self-diagnose as suffering from 'Long Covid' as everyone else. That is, 10.8% of civil servants claimed to be sufferers, compared to 3.3% of the U.K. population. Guido Fawkes has more.
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Speaks VOLUMES, over paid lazy barstools that are capitalising on the fallout out of a failed Government program.
Also, as time progresses, we are learning WHY they want to inject graphene (found by la quinta columna in EVERY v*** product, including chinese and even russia v*****) into everyone ... it is to produce transhumans who can withstand the electromagnetic effects of serving as the graphene backbone of the wide body area network. Check out recent articles on drudge, i.e. humans make the best antennas, or the recent article on radiation-proof super soldiers in China. And of course, look into how the internet REALLY works. Keep in mind their plan to "tag" ALL LIVING THINGS including FOOD with QR codes for sourcing country of origin etc. Just how can they do that? How can they "tag" everything produced? (think through the airwaves). So it really makes sense that more public servants report long c****, because they were more v**** due to coercion.
What is coronavirus? The different types of coronaviruses [Link]
I'm not a keen fan of the word accident neither, as such events are due to lack of concentration or inappropriately applied technique.
Both do result in a solution, whether intended or not, its that word "problem" .
Every Sunday I buy the Sunday Times, not to read that pile of shit, but to do its puzzles and try its crossword. I get annoyed if I cannot complete the hardest Sukodu in 16 minutes and blast my way through the other puzzles, I do it to challenge my mind and keep it active. So problems, being handy with my hands still? And enjoying a challenge, problems are not problems to me, there something that need a resolution to.
I see where you are coming from with your statement, I suppose different people look at problems in different ways.
Oh man, how many times have I preached this to my kids and grandkids. I finally boiled it down to, "Watch where you put your feet."
If there is hope, wrote Winston, it lies in the proles. If there was hope, it must lie in the proles, because only there in those swarming disregarded masses, 85 per cent of the population of Oceania, could the force to destroy the Party ever be generated. The Party could not be overthrown from within. Its enemies, if it had any enemies, had no way of coming together or even of identifying one another. Even if the legendary Brotherhood existed , as just possibly it might, it was inconceivable that its members could ever assemble in larger numbers than twos and threes. Rebellion meant a look in the eyes, an inflexion of the voice, at the most, an occasional whispered word. But the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength. would have no need to conspire. They needed only to rise up and shake themselves like a horse shaking off flies. If they chose they could blow the Party to pieces tomorrow morning. Surely sooner or later it must occur to them to do it? And yet-! He remembered how once he had been walking down a crowded street when a tremendous shout of hundreds of voices women's voices - - had burst from a side-street a little way ahead. It was a great formidable cry of anger and despair, a deep, loud 'Oh-o-o-o-oh!' that went humming on like the reverberation of a bell. His heart had leapt. It's started! he had thought. A riot! The proles are breaking loose at last! When he had reached the spot it was to see a mob of two or three hundred women crowding round the stalls of a street market, with faces as tragic as though they had been the doomed passengers on a sinking ship. But at this moment the general despair broke down into a multitude of individual quarrels. It appeared that one of the stalls had been selling tin saucepans. They were wretched, flimsy things, but cooking-pots of any kind were always difficult to get. Now the supply had unexpectedly given out. The successful women, bumped and jostled by the rest, were trying to make off with their saucepans while dozens of others clamoured round the stall, accusing the stall-keeper of favouritism and of having more saucepans somewhere in reserve. There was a fresh outburst of yells. Two bloated women, one of them with her hair coming down, had got hold of the same saucepan and were trying to tear it out of one another's hands. For a moment they were both tugging, and then the handle came off. Winston watched them disgustedly. And yet, just for a moment, what almost frightening power had sounded in that cry from only a few hundred throats! Why was it that they could never shout like that about anything that mattered? He wrote: Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious. That, he reflected, might almost have been a transcription from one of the Party textbooks. The Party claimed, of course, to have liberated the proles from bondage. Before the Revolution
Don't get me wrong, I feel like part of what's now called long covid is psychosomatic (lockdown-shellshock or dangerous-disease-woo-woo) and part is vaccine damage.
H owever, this study doesn't show that half of people imagined long covid. The "test" doesn't measure anything. It multiplies fragments of genetic material of undetermined origin until an arbitrary threshold is reached. This study holds no value, just like all the other dross based solely on PCR.