Guess I'll have to check it out. I've heard a lot about the opioid crisis to know to stay away. My dad was given opioids against his will (so I understood) and I don't understand how he's OK with it in retrospect.

I agree entirely, that and the Brazilian study both had 100% mechanical ventilation (some other studies had 50, 30% etc) but I see that their numbers aren't TOO high compared to the rest. So in theory, they shouldn't skew the results too much, but it's still a travesty that these studies got pooled in.

I really have to sit down and go over the meta-analysis properly, maybe they divided long covid outcomes dependent on how severe the covid was to begin with and I just missed it.