Eric, with all due respect, this paper describes a web-based survey of a sample recruited from online support groups — but more importantly the vast majority of participants had no evidence of prior COVID-19 infection?
82% had negative serology?
Am I misreading?
82% had negative serology?
Am I misreading?
https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1343724079480668160
15.9% had positive PCR, and 18.2% had positive antibodies. Even if you assume zero overlap (and why would you?), that means that the majority of these participants, whose demographics are opposite those who typically face severe COVID, never seemed to have COVID?
Make no mistake — COVID is the pandemic of a century — a horrifying, unprecedented plague. But the "long covid" narrative needs revision, rapidly.
I have zero desire to be the one pushing back on this non-social-justice-oriented issue but almost nobody else is
I don't think I'm misreading although there's not a lot of attention to it in the text ... 
To clarify my initial tweet, 82% of the overall cohort lacked positive antibodies, but among those actually tested per Table 2, 68.5% had a negative antibody test.
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