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Not sure about the quality of these findings - especially the uniqueness to covid19.

My Dad contracted SARS (Swine Flu) 2 years ago and was knocked out for 2-3 weeks and needed at least 2 month until full recovery.

Also, I contracted common colds 4-5 times over the last years every year due to my 3 year old going to the daycare. I got a chronic sinusitis out of that. Am I long-hauler now?

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> SARS (Swine Flu)

SARS is a coronavirus and Swine Flu is an influenza.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syn...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swine_influenza

Did you read the article? They didn't say it was unique to Covid-19, and literally brought up long-term effects of SARS in some patients.

Phrases like "Stump Experts" and "Puzzling Persistence" are chosen to imply that this is something unprecedented and scary.

This piece is mostly about the heart effects of COVID-19, but it hammers home the same point - that none of these effects are particularly unusual or surprising, they're just occurring at a massively larger scale, with massively more news coverage, than before:

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/09/covid-19-...

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