Based on the percentage of young people who got Covid (very high) and were disabled (very few), this doesn’t seem significant.
"Death by a thousand cuts"
Maybe, you know, there is a middle ground between "as impactful or dangerous as TB" and "negligible"? Especially when so much is unknown about the SARS-CoV-2, a virus that infects the whole body (not just the lungs)?
For reference, almost all the victims of SARS-CoV-1 are still suffering from complications almost two decades later, between permanent fatigue, pulmonary damage, osteoporosis and bone necrosis, immune system deregulation, cognition impairment... Which is, you know, less worse than death and therefore TB, but still
Answer is a bit more of 1% young adults have significant limitations caused by long COVID if I read it well. 2024 data.
But this figure also includes cases without significant activity limitation. Significant activity limitations from long COVID across all adults for younger adults is slightly above 1%. Which is not negligible I think.
Here is a chilling possibility it may be closer to 25% already: https://neurosciencenews.com/ai-long-covid-28003/
We do not yet know what the long term impacts of acquiring COVID repeatedly will be, but we're going to find out.
It's my suspicion that those healthy young people will have lungs like chain smokers, higher rates of certain cancers, and a much higher propensity for certain cardiovascular ailments in a few decades.