Daniel Haran: More evidence about Covid's health toll, and a methodological argument about how we measure "long Covid": if people have organ damage but no reported symptoms, do they have long Covid or not?

More evidence about Covid's health toll, and a methodological argument about how we measure "long Covid": if people have organ damage but no reported symptoms, do they have long Covid or not?

Review of organ damage from COVID and Long COVID: a disease with a spectrum of pathologywww.degruyter.com Long COVID, as currently defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) and other authorities, is a symptomatic condition that has been shown to affect an estimated 10 %–30 % of non-hospitalized patie...

I can't follow the medical side of these papers, but I am allowed to have an opinion on methods, right? If a masking protocol in a hospital requires donning a fresh mask before entering each patient's room, studying infection rates is not informative about "masking" per se, because *aerosols*.

Especially where I live, a lot of obviously bad papers have been published to push a political agenda. Many of those studies never passed peer review, including those that were obviously under-powered. Yet somehow amateurs are accused of epistemic trespassing for pointing out the obvious flaws.

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