It would be interesting to know, but will we ever get true data?
—especially as set against other viruses
When I was 16, I got what we might call now “long viral pneumonia.”
I was never in the hospital for it. Got it on a trip to San Francisco one summer. It was cold. Had to buy a sweatshirt level cold.
Six weeks later, I was still dragging so much I asked to be taken to a doctor to be checked out. He did blood tests due to thinking I could have gotten mono as a secondary infection.
Nothing wrong. All levels fine.
He said sometimes you just drag for a while from these things, even when you’re young. He’d seen it before in all sorts of kids. He was a pediatrician.
I dragged for another six weeks. Messed up the start to my junior year at a new school.
By the way, this was a contributing factor to a major depression that set in.
So long Covid, smovid. There’s a lot of long this, long that that’s been out there for a while.