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		dekhn on July 13, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Gene linked to long Covid found in analysis of tho... Sorry, but I think the person you are responding to is probably technically correct in this case. Many people formed their opinions about COVID during the early pandemic where there were lots of breathless articles about children dying, COVID risk seems to be mostly related to other, known risk factors that are personalized. This is supported by most current medical literature.

gerbilly on July 16, 2023 [–]

So so what?

What matters is how people evaluated the information at the time when there was uncertainty about the severity.

Just because he the poster may have gotten lucky doesn't mean his arguments were well founded during the time period where it mattered.

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