<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>graeme</author><text>That might make a case for &lt;i&gt;replacing&lt;/i&gt; the name but not eliminating it. Eliminating it would be akin to removing the name &amp;quot;stomach cancer&amp;quot; because other cells can also become cancerous.&lt;p&gt;You need a name for things. And long flu might have different etiology than long covid despite similar symptoms, so it doesn&amp;#x27;t make sense to lump them together as &amp;quot;long virus&amp;quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>abrookewood</author><text>Recently read an article suggesting that we should drop the term Long Covid, as it implies that there is something unique about it, when the research seems to show that the impairment post-Covid is very similar to that from Influenza:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theguardian.com&amp;#x2F;society&amp;#x2F;2024&amp;#x2F;mar&amp;#x2F;15&amp;#x2F;long-covid-symptoms-flu-cold&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theguardian.com&amp;#x2F;society&amp;#x2F;2024&amp;#x2F;mar&amp;#x2F;15&amp;#x2F;long-covid-s...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Long Covid brain fog may be due to damaged blood vessels in the brain</title><url>https://www.sciencenews.org/article/long-covid-brain-fog-blood-brain-barrier-damage</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>downWidOutaFite</author><text>Instead of wanting people to ignore Long Covid wouldn&amp;#x27;t it be better to make people more aware of Long Flu?</text><parent_chain><item><author>abrookewood</author><text>Recently read an article suggesting that we should drop the term Long Covid, as it implies that there is something unique about it, when the research seems to show that the impairment post-Covid is very similar to that from Influenza:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theguardian.com&amp;#x2F;society&amp;#x2F;2024&amp;#x2F;mar&amp;#x2F;15&amp;#x2F;long-covid-symptoms-flu-cold&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theguardian.com&amp;#x2F;society&amp;#x2F;2024&amp;#x2F;mar&amp;#x2F;15&amp;#x2F;long-covid-s...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Long Covid brain fog may be due to damaged blood vessels in the brain</title><url>https://www.sciencenews.org/article/long-covid-brain-fog-blood-brain-barrier-damage</url></story>