However, I’m more or less certain that this is much different for service workers, undocumented immigrants, the homeless, people who couldn’t afford to be in good health to begin with, etc. I know couples where both people developed long Covid, and they had disabling chronic illness to begin with. And their social circles where they get support and community for their conditions are similarly ravaged. It’s apparently devastating.
Many people here live with chronic illnesses, and healthcare access & quality is highly variable.
There is zero discussion of long Covid here. Nobody reports any symptoms, no media talks about it, no medical resources are being spent on it. This is strange, because one would expect that if a problem were merely being ignored, there would be visible effects of that.
So I'm honestly unsure what to think about long Covid. There's "something there", but so many unknowns.
Am hyperboling but the difference between being raised to think you're a victim and actually suffering from something else is difficult to get right. Infant traumas can lead people to become so daringly incompetent they think they have a problem other than needing psychological help. No one likes to realize they are stupid but the stupider you are the more it hurts.
There are lots of ways something can affect a huge percent of people and yet you never see it.
Not far off, and two of that 7 are under 25 and one is elderly avoiding much unnecessary contact still.
But that's not nearly the same as 1/5 of the population never recovering.
When you see an article saying that, please share it!
So much of the stuff I see just seems to discuss a post-viral syndrome that lingers for quite a bit longer than the acute infection, which is a phenomenon we recognize from other serious viral infections but haven’t historically invested a lot in studying.
This “never recovers” thing you talk about would be fascinating, especially with us only being a couple years into the disease circulating. I’d love to read the science behind that. You have any specific articles you remember?