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I've heard of this, but I am curious if:

A) Is there any substantial evidence that supports it

B) If A, then how many individuals are affected?

If you have any material on this, I would gladly read it.

Personally, my mental health is horrible. Being in isolation away from friends/family (among all the other measures we have taken during this pandemic) have slowly deteriorated my mental & physical health.

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A) Yes, lots. B) 10%.

https://evidence.nihr.ac.uk/themedreview/living-with-covid19 https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n132.long

Get the population vaccinated so things can go back to normal and people can go back to work and play without fear of long term illness or death.

"Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration." - Bene Gesserit saying

As far as I know there is no good data on "long covid" that substantially controls for confounders like obesity and age. Obese people are likely to have seemingly "long-term" effects from any respiratory problems that actually disappear if they lose weight (see for example obese asthma sufferers who often have what appears like chronic bronchitis). If you are aware of anything that provides evidence that accounts for confounders I'd be very happy to change my mind.

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