btw, if you live in the St Louis area and have ever had the flu it could have been histoplasmosis. Apparently, just about everyone there gets it according to one article I read from one of the few experts. Sometimes it disseminates to other parts of your body but mostly does not...or at least that is what they think at this time. Mine disseminated.
I trust nothing that the CDC says but it does bring up fungal infections and COVID. It stands to reason long haul COVID could have a similar issue:
COVID-19 likely increases the risk for fungal infections because of its effect on the immune system and because treatments for COVID-19 (like steroids and other drugs) can weaken the body’s defenses against fungi.32 The most commonly reported fungal infections in patients with COVID-19 include aspergillosis, invasive candidiasis, and mucormycosis (sometimes called by the misnomer ”black fungusexternal icon.”1–6 Fungal infections resistant to antifungal treatment have also been described in patients with severe COVID-19.19, 20