A Short History of Long COVID
Commentary
As the reality of the steeply age-stratified and comorbidity-amplified disease continued to frustrate the worldview of many COVID maximizers, there was a popular drumbeat to expand the COVID threat beyond cases and deaths, and the most mysterious, terror-inducing phenomenon that could be exploited was Long COVID. Long COVID isn’t a single phenomenon, but rather many phenomena, a catch-all term which could be summarized as “anything bad that happens after you’ve had COVID.”
As with pandemics in the past, when millions and even billions of people are infected with a virus over a period of months to years, there will be a seemingly rather significant group of people with long-term issues, and some of them will be quite nasty. And if the definition is broadened, then so can the size of the group of long-term sufferers….