the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, a major health concern of Americans is whether COVID 19 infection can lead to long term negative health effects. The Journal of the American Medical Association published large, elegantly designed French study that analyzed the association between purported long COVID symptoms and “self-reported” COVID versus serologically confirmed COVID. The results: “A serology test result positive for SARS-COV-2 was positively associated only with persistent anosmia,” that is a loss of smell.
This means “Long COVID” symptoms are strongly associated with the perception of having had COVID, but not at all associated with actually having had COVID.
The last column shows the fully-adjusted odds ratios. The only elevated risk associated with actual, as opposed to perceived, infection is loss of smell:
