A reader comment on NYTimes piece published yesterday:
The Covid endgame continues to elude us.
www.nytimes.com
I think there needs to be more data about long covid and it’s prevalence (even with the vaccine, which is happening) before we jump to the conclusion that long covid is just as common as post viral complications from the flu. I’m on a slack channel with 15,000 other long haulers, and the vast majority of them are young people who did not have a prior autoimmune disease or health issue, and most have had the flu or other viral conditions that did not trigger chronic fatigue syndrome. Covid appears to be an endothelial disease that wrecks havoc on the nervous system in a way that a simple respiratory disease does not. We need more data before we can safely compare a vaccinated response to covid to the flu. Especially with delta, which has much higher viral load. For background, I’m 25 and have been sick and unable to work for 11 months now, and I was previously healthy and athletic. Long covid has turned my life upside down after a mild infection.