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Actual uplifting news in here. Stop the presses.

Good for them.

Not even! It was COVID-19 diagnosis. It's not about long Covid. It's about COVID convalescence.

The actual title on the article is “25 per cent of COVID patients become ‘long haulers’ after 12 months: Mac study,” which is not uplifting news. Rephrasing it to emphasize the number that recover is misleading.

Additionally, the article makes no mention of ME/CFS which is one of the more dire outcomes falling under the Long Covid umbrella. ME/CFS is a recognized outcome of infectious illnesses like Epstein-Barr and has a recovery rate of something like 6%. Further, the illness is so debilitating that 25% of patients are bedridden or housebound. While most will recover following a Covid-19 infection, some will not, and at the rates that the virus is circulating, even a relatively small percentage left disabled after each infection will have profound consequences on a population level. This article provides little real information to help readers understand what the longer-term consequences of Covid will be.

Nope. Not uplifting news. 75 percent of covid (not long covid) cases recover within a year, 25 percent doesn't.

You are not allowed to post anything positive in relation to the pandemic. Anything positive will be negatively skewed. Keep covid in the front of your mind at all times.