Comment from Naked Capitalism reader GM Doc about this JAMA article about the risk long term sequelae following COVID-19 infection:

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2784918

“This is skewed — 80% of the sample were hospitalized. The number of infections is much higher. Disability ran 25-50% of infections for SARS-1, it’s 5-10 times less for SARS-2 (it seems to track proportionally to the IFR).

“But then of course people will get reinfected (more on that in a separate message) so with endemic COVID is kind of the same. And the reduction from vaccines doesn’t make that much difference either given how many times we plan to roll that dice.

“This study does, however, show the moral and intellectual bankruptcy of managing up to hospital capacity. One is lucky to come out of the hospital without damage. This is not the flu, for the 32543543th time. So if you are managing up to hospital capacity, you effectively sentence a huge number of people to death and several times that to disability.

“But how many prominent experts and public health figures called it out for what it is? Basically none…”

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https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2021/10/links-10-15-2021.html