I recently started paying attention to “long Covid”, meaning long term symptoms and/or organ damage in persons who have supposedly recovered from Covid.
Read this paper if you’re not up to speed on this:
https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M21-0878
I am trying to figure out how serious a problem this is going to be.
In the US, between 34 million and 100 million people have contracted Covid (the lower number is the confirmed cases, the higher number is an estimate of actual cases).
If, say, 10% of those suffer from long Covid, that could potentially be 3 to 10 million persons. If half of those persons are of working age, that could be a significant number - a couple million or several million - persons who may have difficulty working at their prior level. And, perhaps, significant medical expense. That’s a lot of impact - potentially.
What do you know about this? Any information to share?