The severity of the acute respiratory syndrome is the severity of the underlying disease, not the symptoms that may or may not display (or be detected). In the case of SARS-related coronaviruses, the syndrome is *always* severe. We're talking about a virus that can travel outside the respiratory system using receptors found all over the body, that may never fully clear. We do not get to fuck with SARS-CoVs without finding out just how severe they really are, no matter how long that takes ⏳
There are two kinds of symptoms that happen after an infection, but only one kind is focused on:
1. symptoms from the immune system responding to the presence of the pathogen
2. symptoms from the damage the pathogen has caused to various organs, which can take time to fully manifest
The latter can happen without the former. Our entire pandemic response to #covid focuses on the former at the expense of the latter
It makes sense, though, because western medicine is all about treating symptoms for long periods of time. It's the most profitable system.
@BE
They've openly admitted it in internal correspondence.
@currentbias