Honest to God, I think that's a testing thing, like how Nigerian prince scams are deliberately ridiculous to filter out people who aren't gullible enough to grift. I'm not a scientist or anything, I'm just a nerd who keeps up with the news, and nothing I have ever seen has indicated a low white blood cell count as a symptom of long COVID. Changes in the composition/structure of blood cells, sure, but not HIV-like immunodeficiency. COVID hits you worse if you are already immunodeficient, obviously, but that's not what Andy is claiming. It feels designed to draw sympathy from people who take COVID seriously but aren't quite knowledgeable enough to get that he's lying.

It's Munchausen's by internet all over again, like his "heart condition" and his "dissociative identity disorder."