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Sarah Constantin's avatar

This smells like research by committee.

Different people, with different opinions about long COVID, came up with a compromise research plan that satisfied everyone.

But it isn't set up to help us crisply distinguish different hypotheses.

A single person, with a single paradigm & hypothesis, whatever it might be, would have come up with a cleaner study.

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Thomas Reilly's avatar

You really nailed the complexity of this condition!

One reservation I have about such widespread application of medical investigations in the absence of clearly characterised pathophysiology is the danger of over-diagnosis/incidental-findings and subsequent iatrogenic harm. I think this needs to be balanced against the potential benefits of each test.

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