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> People who tested positive for the virus reported at least one of 62 symptoms more frequently 12 weeks after initial infection with SARS-CoV-2 than those who had not contracted the virus.

It was also a self reported. Self reporting for something like this is probably going to be useless.

In fact what might be more interesting is using this as an opportunity to study med student syndrome.

EDIT: Looking at the quote again, less troubling than the self reporting part is the 62 symptoms, I mean how many of you know how much hair loss you've had over the past year vs 12 weeks. They did have a considerable control group, but I also know there are plenty of ways to massage data.

But seriously 62 different possible symptoms? This seems like a very wide list of possible symptoms cast over a very wide net of people.




They were also given their test results. In a drug clinical trial, that kind of thing would instantly invalidate the whole project.


> But seriously 62 different possible symptoms? This seems like a very wide list of possible symptoms cast over a very wide net of people.

Yep, this is the same mistake the study in https://xkcd.com/882/ makes.


> It was also a self reported.

Out of curiosity, could you please describe what you think that entails for a study like this?




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