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how much you wanna bet a lot of them are dead?

Or like long term unemployment, no longer being counted

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I hate to tell you this. It isn't because the threat has gone away. This is not uplifting.

The article says it’s either the impact of changes in the virus or increased immunity. I’m personally quite worried about long covid so to me, that WAS good news. Why do you say it’s not?

Does this mean a smaller percentage report symptoms from those who get infected now, does it mean that the nominal number is smaller or does it mean that those who formerly reported symptoms got better?

Is it because they get better, or because they die?

The cynical assumption that it’s just people accepting their long covid as normal instead of something exceptional to report on. As you said though the article doesn’t indicate why it changed.

(Edit) the odd bit from the article is that is the number of folks who report ever having long covid symptoms is down. Which is an indicator that there may need to be some follow up with a longitudinal study.

I guess it's a sort of vague thing to define. People may attribute things to long covid and then later find out there was some other reason they'd been feeling off.

If you visit the long Covid subs you would see that we have had many, many new members join the last few months. It is definitely not on the decline. I truly wish it was.

People with long covid regularly get told by doctors that they have anxiety, not long covid. Large chunks of the medical establishment minimizes or disbelieves long covid symptoms. They already do this for MECFS, fibromyalgia, and other post viral illnesses.

Please don't believe this article, it's trying to hide real people's debilitating illnesses so society can go "back to normal".

When I got Covid over a year ago, I ended up having Parosmia, meaning things just smelled and tasted awful, just a year to date later, it began to completely diminish, at least as far as my sense of taste.

If it's anywhere like CFS has been to my experience then it probably means than the long covid patients has been bullied and gaslighted enough by the medical community so they don't have any reason left to go to the doctor and report their symptoms.

I still have pretty bad sense of smell.

Fibromyalgia is a fake illness

Half the things on this subreddit are actually not very uplifting and instead dystopian. "Small child pays for cancer treatment through poorly paid labor" and such. This just follows that pattern.

Can you tell my nerves and muscles that? I'd really like to not have to take pills to prevent my pain, thanks.

I mean, reporting may be down, but sickness isn't

Or people just aren’t reporting long covid as much because the help isn’t there and it costs a lot. I agree with ya

Well, that's uplifting news.

Type of thing that belongs here, then.

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To my understanding, the "Long COVID" stuff isn't deadly stuff, but really bad quality-of-life stuff.

Persistent but low-level cough, breathing and sinus problems, weakness and (most alarming to me) long-term "brain fog".

I'm personally getting worried because I've had the "brain fog" since the last time I had COVID, but I also work in healthcare and it could just be constant low-level exposure to different things. Sucks, regardless.

Bless your heart

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