Good debunking of the 78% figure, but I'm not sure of the relevance of the Long Covid figures at the end. Isn't the issue that it seems that Covid can cause heart (and other) issues which are hidden until, for instance, the person suffers a cardiac arrest apparently out of the blue? The ONS statistics will only include people who are aware of their ongoing health issues caused by Covid. I hope that there is some more recent research into the issue but I am not aware of any (and as a non-medical person would not expect to be!).
Ok, but I think the issue is that most cardiac arrests are out of the blue, so any effect would be hard to distinguish from that. So perhaps there's some signal in ongoing excess death numbers, but it's not a huge effect at population level (and also there are other factors, like ambulance strikes, waiting lists etc), so I personally don't think it can be a huge percentage of infections ..
Good debunking of the 78% figure, but I'm not sure of the relevance of the Long Covid figures at the end. Isn't the issue that it seems that Covid can cause heart (and other) issues which are hidden until, for instance, the person suffers a cardiac arrest apparently out of the blue? The ONS statistics will only include people who are aware of their ongoing health issues caused by Covid. I hope that there is some more recent research into the issue but I am not aware of any (and as a non-medical person would not expect to be!).
Ok, but I think the issue is that most cardiac arrests are out of the blue, so any effect would be hard to distinguish from that. So perhaps there's some signal in ongoing excess death numbers, but it's not a huge effect at population level (and also there are other factors, like ambulance strikes, waiting lists etc), so I personally don't think it can be a huge percentage of infections ..
"Excess risk for acute myocardial infarction mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic"
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9839603/
May be useful.