On Long COVID Awareness Day, Remember This: Long COVID is fake!; No Such Thing as ‘long COVID,’ Health Agency Says in Shocking Claim: ‘Unnecessary fear’, and other C-Virus related stories
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On Long COVID Awareness Day, remember this: Long COVID is fake!:
COVID fanaticism birthed many disasters, from school closures to lockdowns to the apotheosis of Anthony Fauci — but none was so utterly mad as the idea of “long COVID,” a mysterious condition that dogged sufferers months after infection and was used to justify the endless continuance of every draconian rule.
Now a new Australian study shows the idea was always wrong — just in time for (God help us) International Long COVID Awareness Day.
Dr. John Gerrard, Queensland’s chief health officer, oversaw a study of 5,000-plus Australians with fatigue, cough and other symptoms associated with long COVID; these sick Aussies had taken COVID tests with both positive and negative results.
The study recorded their symptoms in spring 2022 and a year later. The result: Those who had tested positive for COVID did not experience long-term impairment at a higher rate than those who tested negative (or simply had the flu).
“We believe it is time to stop using terms like ‘Long COVID,’” said Gerrard. The “terminology can cause unnecessary fear, and in some cases, hyper-vigilance to longer symptoms that can impede recovery.” —>READ MORE HERE
No such thing as ‘long COVID,’ health agency says in shocking claim: ‘Unnecessary fear’:
Follow the science — right out the door.
The term “long COVID” should be tossed aside like a stack of expired N95 masks — that’s according to health experts in one country, who found that symptoms of those reportedly suffering a year on weren’t any different than your typical virus, such as the flu.
Government-backed medical researchers in Australia say it’s time to stop using the fear-inducing phrase, which became popular after high volumes of people testing positive for COVID-19 led to a surge in generally non-severe “virus fatigue symptoms” that would normally have gone unnoticed, South West News Service reported.
“We believe it is time to stop using terms like ‘long COVID,’” said Dr. John Gerrard, Queensland’s chief health officer, who oversaw the newly released study.
“They wrongly imply there is something unique and exceptional about longer-term symptoms associated with this virus,” he explained.
“This terminology can cause unnecessary fear, and in some cases, hyper-vigilance to longer symptoms that can impede recovery,” Gerrard warned.
Researchers at Queensland Health surveyed 5,112 symptom sufferers age 18 and older to reach their conclusion.
Symptoms reported included fatigue, brain fog, cough, shortness of breath, change to smell and taste, dizziness, and rapid or irregular heartbeat. —>READ MORE HERE
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