Notices by Bluewater_61 (developmentdoc@mastodon.social)

@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….

@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.