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   Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) (mackayim2022@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Sep-2024 07:05:42 JST Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him)

   On PASC versus long COVID – and the potential for confusion,
   via @croakeynews from Feb, 2024.
   https://www.croakey.org/on-pasc-versus-long-covid-and-the-potential-for-confusion/

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     Bluewater_61 (developmentdoc@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Sep-2024 07:05:39 JST Bluewater_61

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     • Brian Vastag

     @mackayim2022 @brianvastag As an MD, I am certainly not confusing SARS Cov 2 with HIV. But I have learned to watch out when something that is normally rare starts happening very often. 400 million cases of #LongCovid (nature medicine) in my opinion are a signal that we are dealing with something entirely different from the occasional post viral fatigue or myocarditis. IMHO we should call a spade a spade instead of finding ways to make this seem normal.

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     Bluewater_61 (developmentdoc@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Sep-2024 07:05:40 JST Bluewater_61

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     • Brian Vastag

     @brianvastag @mackayim2022 I think the discussion is missing the point. We all learned decades ago in Medschool that these symptoms may (rarely) appear after various viral infections. What makes #LongCovid a completely new ballgame is the FREQUENCY at which the symptoms appear after one specific new virus. Reminds me of a pathology lecture I attended in the early 80s, where we were told that a sudden breakdown of the immune system in young men was nothing unusual and had been seen before….

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     Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) (mackayim2022@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Sep-2024 07:05:40 JST Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him)

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     • Bluewater_61

     @Developmentdoc @brianvastag This is not HIV. If that's what you're alluding to.

     Bill repeated this.
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     Brian Vastag (brianvastag@sciencemastodon.com)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Sep-2024 07:05:42 JST Brian Vastag

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     @mackayim2022 I think with proper diagnosis, we could do away with "long covid": Some people have post-viral fatigue syndrome; if it lasts 6+ months it typically converts to a dx of ME/CFS; some people have POTS & other autonomic dysfunction; some have lung damage; some have kidney damage; myocarditis; etc.

     I follow the literature fairly closely & I don't think there's anything new with post-covid conditions that has not been seen before.