"I'm more concerned about the unknowns of Long Covid than I am about the unknowns of the vaccine." Unless you are in a high-risk group, this should not be a se

"I'm more concerned about the unknowns of Long Covid than I am about the unknowns of the vaccine." Unless you are in a high-risk group, this should not be a serious concern. There is almost no evidence for "long covid". The vast majority of the evidence is anecdotal, self-reported clusters of symptoms that resemble other common illnesses: https://sebastianrushworth.com/2020/11/17/what-is-long-covid/ https://sebastianrushworth.com/2020/11/17/what-is-long-covid... When you look for higher-quality evidence for the syndrome, you find studies like this one, from the CDC, which defined "long-term" as "symptoms lasting longer than two weeks", where "symptoms" mostly resemble the aftermath of any mild respiratory illness -- fatigue, cough and headache were the most common: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6930e1.htm https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6930e1.htm As for more specific studies, there have been a few papers about heart inflammation that have been widely circulated, but nearly all of these have been shown to have serious statistical flaws: https://mobile.twitter.com/ProfDFrancis/status/1298514453642739712 https://mobile.twitter.com/ProfDFrancis/status/1298514453642... The narrative about athletes with heart damage have been shown to be exaggerated, at best, and physicians no longer MRI recommend screening of athletes without outward symptoms: https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2020/11/04/Heart-inflammation-from-COVID-19-less-common-than-thought/4441604499783/ https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2020/11/04/Heart-inflammatio... https://www.si.com/college/2020/10/28/big-ten-covid-protocol-21-days-heart-screening https://www.si.com/college/2020/10/28/big-ten-covid-protocol... https://images.saymedia-content.com/.image/cs_srgb/MTc2NDI1MTI4ODc0MjIyNzY1/hsc200003_annotatedproof.pdf https://images.saymedia-content.com/.image/cs_srgb/MTc2NDI1M... More generally, physicians are recommending that these sorts of MRI-based fishing expeditions play no role in screening of otherwise healthy people who have recovered from Covid-19: https://cvctcardiobrief.com/?p=20977 https://cvctcardiobrief.com/?p=20977 Covid-induced strokes also appear to be a case where cherry-picking statistics has driven a narrative of fear: https://academic.oup.com/neurosurgery/advance-article/doi/10.1093/neuros/nyaa419/5901854 https://academic.oup.com/neurosurgery/advance-article/doi/10... There are currently two clinical trials registered to investigate the question. The earliest we will have any high-quality data on this subject is 2022: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04411147 https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04411147 https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/record/NCT04362150 https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/record/NCT04362150