It is true that many "long covid" symptoms are vague symptoms like fatigue, it also true that many who self-report "long covid" never had a positive COVID test.

It is true that many "long covid" symptoms are vague symptoms like fatigue, it also true that many who self-report "long covid" never had a positive COVID test. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/these-patients-tested-negative-for-the-coronavirus-but-still-have-long-covid-symptoms https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/these-patients-tested-ne... It is also true that staying at home and listening to media dramatizations causes stress, which can cause the aforementioned symptoms. So, if you put two and two together, you may come to the conclusion that many or even most "long covid" cases are psychosomatic and not caused by the virus itself, even in those people who actually were infected. Like I said, this needs to be differentiated from symptoms that are clinically verifiable long-term effects of respiratory illness and viral infection.