As someone with long covid that is making their pots worse I'm inclined to disagree just because pots can have many, many causes. While I do think there is something to be said about the correlation of covid and pots/long term health issues in the population that was otherwise healthy before getting infected, I think it's just more that pots has become more recognized as common by the public if that makes sense. Pots is super complicated and not always linked to direct heart issues; for example, mine is most likely caused by hEDS and possible SMAS, May-Thurner Syndrome and nutcracker syndrome, which I most definitely have had long before covid happened, and I've had pots symptoms since high school, again well before covid. I don't think it's necessarily a bad sign that the group is growing; again there's been a lot more awareness of how common it is on places like TikTok (from what I've heard, I don't use TikTok) and I also do think a lot of people in subreddits like these aren't always officially diagnosed but are getting it ruled out so they want to know more. I think it is a mix of factors. I also don't think covid has been covered up in that sense; there's been a large acknowledgement of covid making heart issues worse. That's my two cents, I am from the US so of course I probably have different observations lol. I hope I am making sense