NIH RECOVER has found that incidence of long covid for infections in 2023 and 2024 has not been decreasing since 2021 and in fact, may steadily be increasing!
academic.oup.com/cid/article-ab…
This is despite assurances from Zeynep that 'novelty was severity' and Dr. Akiko Iwasaki saying:
"immunologically it's unlikely that you're going to develop long covid after a second or third infection because you've already developed some levels of immune responses"
x.com/zeynep/status/…
"Top notch" analysis from experts like Zeynep claims, means nothing if they cannot use that information to understand and predict.
This is a failed analysis because immune responses do not equate to competent and effectual immunity, something that I have been shouting to individuals that seek to merely enumerate T cell reactivity following infection.
I was accused of lacking nuance and alarmism for claiming
1) covid harms the t cell arm of immunity
and
2) covid was intrinsically severe and I expected immune responses to decay with time
It seems as though others lacked nuance in their assessments. Also, doesn't the increasing trend of long covid incidence suggest there could be an effect from immune harm or growing immune incompetence?
Trust me, I am aware of the seniority of the individuals that I am calling out. Do you know how many times these people, despite being way off the mark, have used their positions as data collectors to assuage the public, have been awarded and courted by the National Academies of Science? The award is for saying the politically palatable thing.
academic.oup.com/cid/article-ab…
academic.oup.com/cid/article-ab…
This is despite assurances from Zeynep that 'novelty was severity' and Dr. Akiko Iwasaki saying:
"immunologically it's unlikely that you're going to develop long covid after a second or third infection because you've already developed some levels of immune responses"
x.com/zeynep/status/…
"Top notch" analysis from experts like Zeynep claims, means nothing if they cannot use that information to understand and predict.
This is a failed analysis because immune responses do not equate to competent and effectual immunity, something that I have been shouting to individuals that seek to merely enumerate T cell reactivity following infection.
I was accused of lacking nuance and alarmism for claiming
1) covid harms the t cell arm of immunity
and
2) covid was intrinsically severe and I expected immune responses to decay with time
It seems as though others lacked nuance in their assessments. Also, doesn't the increasing trend of long covid incidence suggest there could be an effect from immune harm or growing immune incompetence?
Trust me, I am aware of the seniority of the individuals that I am calling out. Do you know how many times these people, despite being way off the mark, have used their positions as data collectors to assuage the public, have been awarded and courted by the National Academies of Science? The award is for saying the politically palatable thing.
academic.oup.com/cid/article-ab…
@statsepi I see you deleted your original post where you said reinfections would result in a decreasing rate of long covid.
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