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The BMJ
@bmj.com

Among the range of symptoms experienced by those with long covid, cognitive and mental health concerns are especially common. This review provides an assessment of the nature, severity, and trajectory of neuropsychiatric long covid sequelae www.bmj.com/content/390/...

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Richard Vallée
@richardvallee.bsky.social

Clueless people beating a dead horse so raw it's been completely dry dust for decades. Your complete impotence in holding on to the above 👆 pseudoscience is why absolutely zero progress has been made, amplifying the problem 👇 & maximizing its misery. bsky.app/profile/carl...

Carl Zimmer@carlzimmer.com

"The current health and economic burden of long COVID may already exceed that of other chronic diseases and will continue to grow each year as more and more COVID-19 cases occur." academic.oup.com/jid/article/...

academic.oup.comThe Current and Future Burden of Long COVID in the United StatesOur computational model estimates the current burden of long COVID can range from $5084–$11 646 per case and $2.01–$6.56 billion in societal costs, assumin
Richard Vallée
@richardvallee.bsky.social

Put simply, you people are terrible at your job and should be embarrassed for parroting the same junk pseudoscience that has literally failed for decades. You have cost humanity trillions and destroyed millions of lives doing absolutely nothing of value. No different from antivaxxers.

Richard Vallée
@richardvallee.bsky.social

A random group of teenagers would do better at this. Literally, I am not kidding. 9/10 groups of completely randomly chosen people would completely outperform you in every possible way here. The only profession in which this is possible. Utterly shameful.

Baby Ruthless
@baby-ruthless.bsky.social

Somatic symptom burden? What is this nonsense? It can't be both a virus that invades the brain/causes blood clots AND some kind of psychological condition caused by a difficult childhood. Do we tell cancer/MS/lupus patients they "earned" their sickness because they had pre-existing stressors?