Over the last week, there have been a number of interviews in different kinds of media, podcasts to legacy media, with policy makers, including both politicians, public health officials, and those pundits who serve as unofficial (or official) advisors about COVID, since it appears, even with our mostly non-existent surveillance system, that cases are rising.
Occasionally, the more conscientious (and non-sociopathic) interviewees will mention long COVID, but the interviewer never asks them a simple question: what percentage of people who ‘did what they were supposed to do’ (get vaccinated) who become infected will contract long COVID?
I would settle for a range (which is actually the honest answer). But we never get any estimates. And instead of then asking, “How the hell are you making any policy without some kind of estimate of this?”*, the subject is dropped. If a reporter or interviewer pinned them down and got a number, not only would that be a HAWT story, but it also would help people understand their risk. There is a huge difference between a one-in-fifty chance and a one-in-five-thousand chance of a bad long-term outcome**, in terms of personal risk assessment.
Yet no one is asking the question. This is a complete failure of journalism.
*In the UK, the policy response in the face of supposed uncertainty around long COVID has been to pretend it simply doesn’t exist–that’s actually stated policy.
**I’m not including elevated risk of heart disease in these estimates, but focusing on immediate quality of life symptoms such as chronic fatigue or mental disability.
mikethemadbiologist
I’ve been telling people that the biggest failure in reporting on covid has been the lack of coverage of long covid since it was first known as a part of covid. It is something society will have to deal with, but the way we are currently means it is an issue like burn pits and post 9/11 responders, or simply post war solders.
We are so easily distracted by the next new shinny object. This long covid is going to hurt on top what what’s coming with the weather.
As far as I’m concerned, covid signals a change of the biology on this planet. It will be a marker in the timeline of the planet.
To my mind a more salient question might be what is the difference in risk for developing long term covid between the unvaccinated and the vaccinated who then get covid. Your question almost implies that there is an increased risk of developing long covid with vaccination, which is not something I’ve ever heard. Must admit I am mildly shocked that much covid tracking has stopped dead in the water. The NYTimes did a good job of reporting this but stopped updating many months ago. We have an active case of hopefully short covid in my house right now, that happily looks fairly minor so far.
I think you are right. We need to know outcomes (all cause mortality) for the vaccinated and unvaccinated disaggregated as much as possible (age sex etc).
Dr John Campbell has lost his naive faith in medical authorities (which imho resulted in Yves then correct criticism of him) and is worth watching:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZB0UziOOY8
Peter A. McCullough has long been posting on the heart and other issues induced by the vaccination.
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