Apparently just by talking about it, I’m super-spreading long Covid | George Monbiot

A professor has suggested that press coverage could make people believe they have the condition

Rejoice! A mystery has been solved. We now have an explanation for long Covid, a condition afflicting many thousands of people. A super-spreader has been identified. Important as this finding is, I'm reluctant to call for the vector to be eradicated. Why? Because it's me.

In a presentation to the reinsurance giant Swiss Re, Michael Sharpe, a professor of psychological medicine at the University of Oxford and founder of a long Covid clinic, proposed that one of the causes of the syndrome was social factors". The social factor at the top of his list was an article I wrote for the Guardian, describing the suffering of patients with the condition.