covid: long covid 1 year after mild disease
A couple of articles were just published on the prevalence of long covid in patients with mild covid infections: 1. retrospective nationwide Israeli study assessed long covid one year after mild initial infections (see covid long covid after mild infection BMJ2023 in dropbox, or https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/380/bmj-2022-072529.full.pdf Details : -- 1,913,234 patients had a PCR test done for SARS-CoV-2 between March 2020 and October 2021 -- 299,870 were PCR positive and included in the study; the same number were chosen who were PCR negative (with matching of the major potential confounders, and propensity matching for the weaker confounders) -- 70,862 were vaccinated and 229,008 were not -- 72,317 had wild-type SARS-CoV-2; 97,963 had alpha variant; and 58,728 had delta variant -- though the delta variant was not included in the full an...