I'm curious what the long-term impact of covid is going to be. We're seeing more data come out, e.g., this study from yesterday where 11% of people who had "mild" covid had impaired lung function one year later, with no observable improvement in trajectory over time (measured as % of people impacted), which nicely complements studies that show long-term impact on the heart and the brain
The questions I'm most curious about are what the cumulative impact will be and what impact vaccination has.
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So far, most of these studies have mostly been on vaccinated populations, e.g., enrollment in https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0290893 was 20/05 to 21/12 and vaccines started becoming generally available in 21/08, so the population is likely to mostly be vaccinated people.
There's at least one cohort for which people have published longitudinal data on cumulative impact (and it doesn't look good), but there's a lot of heterogeneity between populations and it would be nice to see more data on this.
It seems like all you have to do is get a bunch of bot accounts to make fake comments and/or upvote your stuff. You don't even have to simulate anything resembling realistic behavior.
For anyone who doesn't browse reddit logged out, other stuff that hits the front page: sports (r/nba, r/nhl), celebrity gossip, women asking to be rated (r/truerateme, r/amiugly, etc.), r/funny, recent popular video games (currently Starfield and BG3), r/Genshin_Impact (has been consistent for years), etc.
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