I wholly disagree that an inaccurate warning is better than no warning at all. I'm unsure why this is contrived, the implication in your post was clear that the mental health impact of it was of no relevance, especially given the follow up. Anyway we shall agree to disagree.
You can be concerned about COVID impact and advocate for changes to public health policy without wilfully exaggerating it's risk, knowing (or ignorant to, not much better) the impact it could have on mental health. Physical AND mental health = health.
(ps suicides are a bad proxy for anxiety, given anxiety is not classically associated diagnostically with suicidal ideation)
So because it's not *more* damaging (which no one ever said), the damage isnt something to be concerned about?
Today for example I've already seen someone telling everyone who will listen that 2% of all people infected with COVID will die from it. 50x the actual risk. Is this ok? Do we think that this false information is cost neutral or negative to those already anxious about COVID?
You can be concerned about COVID impact and advocate for changes to public health policy without wilfully exaggerating it's risk, knowing (or ignorant to, not much better) the impact it could have on mental health. Physical AND mental health = health.
So on average viral clearance (here defined as PCR Ct value >40) decreased from 9.3 to 6.6 days.
Random thought of the day - it always amazes me how many people here are multilingual, and able to post in multiple languages (although I'm sure it goes way beyond social media 😅). Utmost respect from me!
Incidentally the number of people who have messaged me directly talking (at length) about their mental health struggles to do with this is really surprising.