1) long covid is still being studied, obviously, but there are many cases of it - https://bgr.com/2020/08/21/coronavirus-symptoms-long-covid-s...
It’s a disease that attacks your organs, there’s going to be damage.
It’s a disease that attacks your organs, there’s going to be damage.
As with any other early stage research relying heavily on self reported symptoms, the prevalence figures are not well established and the mechanisms causing it not yet understood, but they don't look like flu.
[1]https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m3981, https://evidence.nihr.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Livin...
Long COVID is unproven and anecdotal and seems to be more likely to be psychosomatic in most but not all cases.
Or if it's even caused by Covid and not some underlying pre-existing pathology that ANY disease could trigger.
People have died of papercut complications..
What if 'long covid' is some underlying pre-existing pathology that ANY disease could trigger.
So the question becomes are these statistically likely complications and is this directly from the covid virus.
The media is feeding you fear about 'long covid' and 'covid toes' and 'covid reinfection' and all of the other sensationalized things about Covid that people eat up like Jerry Springer.
Covid-19 and all of it's viral siblings are all solidly respiratory viruses.
Anything else you hear is speculative fear based over hyped statistically unlikely complications with unproven conclusions.
This whole pandemic is fed off of people who are just fundamentally bad at statistics and interpret every reported sensationalized account as an likely possibility and trust that the news media is unbiased, agenda less, and faithful to the truth.
Also...bgr.com is a news outlet not a science source. They make money off of fear. Do you well to look at data and think for yourself.