There's another paper from June of last year[0] that proposed a long COVID explanation: Epstein-Barr reactivation. I haven't seen any follow-up work yet, but if

There's another paper from June of last year[0] that proposed a long COVID explanation: Epstein-Barr reactivation. I haven't seen any follow-up work yet, but if both that and this paper have any predictive power to them[1] we might start seeing a cohort of "long long COVID[2]": people who got COVID, didn't recover, and then progressed to MS. [0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34204243/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34204243/ [1] I'm particularly worried about the "EBV reactivation" theory as COVID-related studies have been used as a vehicle for many medical frauds. [2] As per ISO standards long long COVID must have an infection duration represented with at least a 64-bit machine integer