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Christina Fernandez's avatar

I appreciate this careful analysis of the state of understanding Long Covid. I’m glad you are staying tuned in to the evolving scientific understanding.

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J Lee MD PhD's avatar

Possible explanatory mechanism Number 3 made me think of the famous Green Teapot example of Bertrand Russell --- "there's a green teapot circling the Earth right now but no known device can detect it, not any telescope, not any radar, etc. . . . . but that teapot is up there and failure to detect it with our present devices does not prove its absence "

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Jeremy Faust, MD's avatar

It's always hard to prove a negative...but the more important thing is that people do not mix of Theory 2 and Theory 3.

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