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Long COVID is downright horrifying.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-19-long-haulers-symptoms-...

Its about time they start looking into it.. And it won't just be "long covid"... They can start digging into ME/CFS, and "long-SARS" while they're at it. My girlfriend is pretty much disabled at this point and has been sick since barely surviving SARS in 2003. Oddly enough, most things she suffers from are the same as long-covid issues.

> They can start digging into ME/CFS, and "long-SARS" while they're at it.

Heck yeah.

And isn't "long-SARS" just another long-covid? Along with long-hku1, long-oc43, long-nl63? If 'covid' stands for coronavirus disease, then it stands to reason that the discussion about 'long covid' needs to be independent from which coronavirus is implicated in the chronic condition. It's apparent that they all cause this (albeit rarely).

It seems to me that focusing on one pathogen to the exclusion of the others, despite this phenomenon being documented across all of them, is likely a political decision.

Every hospitalization for pretty much everything serious with lots of medical procedures, especially for 2 weeks or more, have side effects for some months, physically and mentally.

Yes my mother was never the same after knee replacement. Just lost her edge mentally and never recovered it.

To determine how scary "Long Covid" is, you have to take into account both how bad and how frequent it is. Articles like these are just fearmongering. They likely cause it in many cases by giving people hypochondria.

How is a story about a dedicated clinic(s) focused on a mysterious new condition fear mongering?

Individuals like yourself that hand wave away COVID do much more harm.

One story is not. The reporting of the media as a whole is. It's always FEAR FEAR FEAR, without mentioning how likely these cases actually are. Because of this, there are young, healthy people who think they have a significant chance of dying of Covid, which is just objectively wrong.

But it's understandable. If you dare trying to look rationally at the matter, you get accused of "hand wav[ing] away COVID". As if the only two options were "worse than the plague" and "harmless like the common cold".

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