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Long COVID Debate

Discussions center on the existence, evidence, prevalence, and long-term effects of Long COVID, including skepticism, comparisons to other viruses, and links to studies.

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amichail • Dec 25, 2023 • View on HN

Long covid is still a thing though.

renewiltord • Sep 25, 2022 • View on HN

How do we know it wasn't just Long COVID?

add-sub-mul-div • Nov 9, 2025 • View on HN

You people are suffering from something worse than long covid.

metadat • Jul 22, 2022 • View on HN

Long-covid can happen to anyone. Not just a flu.

ThrowawayTestr • May 27, 2022 • View on HN

Is there any evidence that "long covid" is actually a thing?

Glench • Mar 22, 2021 • View on HN

A related article about the long-term effects of any viral infection, including COVID: [Long Covid isn’t as unique as we thought](https://www.vox.com/22298751/long-term-side-effects-covid-19...)

version_five • Mar 12, 2022 • View on HN

One could delete "long-covid induced" from the title and not lose anything

zwaps • Jul 24, 2021 • View on HN

Not worried about long covid? Other article on HN suggests that even mild cases might cost you some IQ points

dTal • Mar 25, 2021 • View on HN

>a disease that I have essentially zero chance of having any trouble recovering from.You sure about that?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_COVID

overtonwhy • Jul 19, 2022 • View on HN

You need to research long covid: https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/05/more-than-1-in-5-cov...