To balance that critique out, something that makes me think long-term issues from Covid are not so fanciful: a decent number of pathogens can cause weird long-term issues: EBV, measles, polio, Encephalitis lethargica, H. Pylori-->cancer. So COVID causing issues is not unprecedented.
Quite crucially, we know that SARS did often cause long-term issues.
Still, the idea of Covid causing accelerated aging in mild cases seems unlikely to me. I can’t justify this intuition in-depth but my understanding is that when pathogens do cause long-term issues, it is relatively specific to a tissue or organ type, so I’m skeptical of broadly dysregulated issues from a mild infection.
In the beginning of the pandemic there was a study that did heart scans that suggested that COVID infection generally cause lasting heart inflamation. It seems to me that there wasn’t a lot of research to validate to what extend that’s true and I see no reason to rule out that thesis.
>>In the beginning of the pandemic there was a study that did heart scans that suggested that COVID infection generally cause lasting heart inflamation. It seems to me that there wasn’t a lot of research to validate to what extend that’s true and I see no reason to rule out that thesis.
My understanding is that similar findings occur in other diseases, especially in patients who are hospitalized, so I’m not sure that’s novel to Covid.
Bad long term consequences aren’t about whether there’s something novel to COVID but whether COVID is similar to SARS which had very bad long term effects or whether it’s not similar to SARS.
The studies that I remember saw such findings also in patients that were not hospitalized.
Quite crucially, we know that SARS did often cause long-term issues.
In the beginning of the pandemic there was a study that did heart scans that suggested that COVID infection generally cause lasting heart inflamation. It seems to me that there wasn’t a lot of research to validate to what extend that’s true and I see no reason to rule out that thesis.
>>In the beginning of the pandemic there was a study that did heart scans that suggested that COVID infection generally cause lasting heart inflamation. It seems to me that there wasn’t a lot of research to validate to what extend that’s true and I see no reason to rule out that thesis.
My understanding is that similar findings occur in other diseases, especially in patients who are hospitalized, so I’m not sure that’s novel to Covid.
Bad long term consequences aren’t about whether there’s something novel to COVID but whether COVID is similar to SARS which had very bad long term effects or whether it’s not similar to SARS.
The studies that I remember saw such findings also in patients that were not hospitalized.