A study out of Australia shows what the media and Medical Industrial Complex calls “Long COVID” is indistinguishable from seasonal flu and any other respiratory illness. There is no evidence of increased or prolonged illness a year after infection.
Long COVID appears to manifest as a post-viral syndrome indistinguishable from seasonal influenza and other respiratory illnesses, with no evidence of increased moderate-to-severe functional limitations a year after infection, according to new research being presented at this year’s European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID 2024) in Barcelona, Spain (27-30 April).
The study by Queensland Health researchers suggests that in the highly vaccinated population of Queensland exposed to the Omicron variant [1], long COVID’s impact on the health system is likely to stem from the sheer number of people infected with SARS-CoV-2 within a short period of time, rather than the severity of long COVID symptoms or functional impairment.
The findings add to previous research by the same authors and published in BMJ Public Health which found no difference in ongoing symptoms and functional impairment when COVID-19 was compared with influenza,12 weeks post infection [2].
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Long COVID is so fake Dr. John Gerrard, Queensland’s Chief Health Officer, was quoted as saying, “Furthermore, we believe it is time to stop using terms like ‘long COVID’. They wrongly imply there is something unique and exceptional about longer term symptoms associated with this virus. This terminology can cause unnecessary fear, and in some cases, hypervigilance to longer symptoms that can impede recovery.”
SARS-CoV-2 is what normal people always thought it was. A flash in the pan that was serious for a specific demographic and a bad cold or nothing to the rest.