The patients surveyed in this study are not representative of the general population: >The mean (SD) age of survivors was 54.4 (8.9) years, 140 196 (56%) were

The patients surveyed in this study are not representative of the general population: >The mean (SD) age of survivors was 54.4 (8.9) years, 140 196 (56%) were male, and 197 777 (79%) were hospitalized during acute COVID-19 I would expect the prevalence of severe long-term symptoms to be much higher in a population that was predominantly hospitalized for acute COVID than in the general population. I could not find any stratification by age/risk group/vaccination status from a cursory look at the study, although maybe it’s buried somewhere. I still have yet to see a study that assesses, given full vaccination, the risk of developing severe long-term symptoms for different risk groups (e.g. ages/comorbidities). This is the most relevant metric for easing restrictions, since acute symptoms for vaccinated individuals have already been shown to be on par with a flu. If chronic symptoms are nonexistent, then there’s no reason to not totally ease restrictions amongst highly vaccinated populations.