Teaser - Long Covid and “Methodological Pitfalls” (10/09/23)

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🗓️ 10 October 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/90648358/ Bea, Artie, and Abby pick apart a recent paper by Vinay Prasad, Tracy Beth Høeg, and Shamez Ladhani claiming that "methodological pitfalls" have led to the prevalence of long covid being “overestimated,” and that the problem with acknowledging high rates of long covid is that it will lead to “increased social anxiety and healthcare spending.” Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:44:41, 9 October 2023 🧬

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0:06.5	Welcome to the death panel.
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0:27.3	local library and follow us at Death Panel underscore. So today I'm here with my co-hosts,
0:33.7	Ardi Veercamp. Hello. And Abby Cardis. Hello. And we're going to be dipping into clown world and talking about this really awful opinion
0:44.8	piece published in the British Medical Journal of Evidence-based Medicine, co-authored by some
0:50.8	of our familiar COVID adversaries.
0:53.7	The piece is called How Methodical
0:56.0	Pitfalls have created widespread misunderstanding about long COVID. It's by Tracy Beth Hogg,
1:03.1	Shemez Lathani, and Vinay Prasad, and it argues that existing epidemiological research on
1:10.0	long COVID has created basically a too large definition of what a genuine case of long COVID is.
1:18.0	And so these three allege in their op-ed that this has led to a distortion of risk where too many people are now at risk of believing that they're sick when they aren't quite sick enough in their opinion.
1:31.4	So this is not a super surprising position coming from these folks.
1:35.7	We have talked about Prasad at length on this show.
1:38.6	Yeah, like from the guy who brought you do not test anymore for COVID and the idea that the COVID vaccines are part of,
1:47.8	quote, a universal campaign to medicalize all of society.
1:53.1	Is Pfizer making more money from the people they're saving?
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