I can agree that there is very very limited research on the long term impacts (since this is so new) - but thousands of people are struggling to recover from this - often people who were not dangerously ill with covid to start with. The 'long haulers' covid group my wife is on has had people uncovering heart scarring, nerve damage and other issues when they have been lucky enough to find a supportive doctor. Most are currently not seeing specialists as they cannot get referrals or the waiting lists are long.
I have no idea if there are 'hundreds' of support groups - my wife is on a couple that largest of which has approaching 10000 members. Every time I post about her progress to Facebook I find more friends or friends of friends who know of people that haven't yet made a connection to a group of or who are only newly considering themselves 'long term ill'. Given what we know now, and the large wave of cases, there are many more people who will be suffering long term symptoms in the months to come.
I really hope there is no long term damage - but I think you have to admit it is too early to say that with any confidence. The impacts or Ebola and SARs are well understood, so I'm not sure why people find it so hard to believe in the issues covid causes.
Article:
‘I feel helpless’: three people on their grueling Covid-19 recoveries
I have no idea if there are 'hundreds' of support groups - my wife is on a couple that largest of which has approaching 10000 members. Every time I post about her progress to Facebook I find more friends or friends of friends who know of people that haven't yet made a connection to a group of or who are only newly considering themselves 'long term ill'. Given what we know now, and the large wave of cases, there are many more people who will be suffering long term symptoms in the months to come.
I really hope there is no long term damage - but I think you have to admit it is too early to say that with any confidence. The impacts or Ebola and SARs are well understood, so I'm not sure why people find it so hard to believe in the issues covid causes.
Article: ‘I feel helpless’: three people on their grueling Covid-19 recoveries
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/20/coronavirus-...