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> Third, there are reports showing lasting damage to kidney and lung tissue (sponge-like structures). Even when surviving COVID-19, previously healthy people might become chronically ill.

you can't say that and not point to a source.

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Here's an article from the Lancet describing patients with high rates of organ function damage. It's not as useful as the one linked by edejong because it's a very early study. It shows that quite a few patients already had damage on admission, more than those that subsequently died so clearly many patients survived with organ damage, but it doesn't follow up on how many more may have suffered such damage after admission. So it's evidence, but not as strong.

https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736...

Well, this [1] is an article describing extensive GGO [2] and subpleural parenchymal bands in recovered patients. I have read other reports from Wuhan doctors describing these effects, but some search terms seems to be censored these days. I am not a specialist, but it was described as lasting damage.

[1] https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/radiol.2020200370

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground-glass_opacity

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