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Just because I feel the need to say it, I didn't get that vibe from your comment at all. Some people just want to have an argument. But I do wonder the same th

Just because I feel the need to say it, I didn't get that vibe from your comment at all. Some people just want to have an argument. But I do wonder the same thing, COVID has obviously been studied enormously around the world. It also seems to impact relatively healthy people in vastly different ways unlike a cold. However, I do wonder if you took a group of people who have been hit with the flu, if you would observe similar long term impacts, albeit perhaps not to the same degree.

nradov 4y ago
The clinical symptoms of COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) appear to be very similar to HCoV-OC43. That is another betacoronavirus which is classified as one of the hundreds of endemic "common cold" viruses. It is now suspected to have caused a worldwide pandemic which killed many people starting in 1889. https://doi.org/10.1111/1751-7915.13889 https://doi.org/10.1111/1751-7915.13889 There hasn't been much research on long-term sequelae from HCoV-OC43. I'll bet that if we studied it as closely as COVID-19 we would find similar effects.