Thank you for asking a question about Long Covid recovery times. This article goes into more detail than I can in just one post: https://www.theatlantic.com/hea

Thank you for asking a question about Long Covid recovery times. This article goes into more detail than I can in just one post: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/09/mecfs-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-doctors-long-covid/671518/ https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/09/mecfs-chr... But the TL;DR is: - Long Covid is for many sufferers, MECFS plus some extra issues like breathing problems and organ damage - MECFS is one of the most disabling illnesses out there, with some of the least-good treatment options - Some folks with either illness improve with time, but many do not, especially because there really aren't treatments right now except for rest - The level of brain fog is so severe people often become aphasic and disoriented. So it's not only that brain surgeons will have to stop doing surgery. It's that people working at an ice cream shop may not be able to count change. Severity varies by individual of course. And finally, at the beginning of the pandemic we were hearing about the concept of "hybrid immunity" -- that basically, getting covid was good for you, because it made you extra immune to getting it again. As time has gone on though, it appears the opposite is true. Each infection has the potential to age / deplete T cells, making a person less immune not only to another round of Covid, but to a variety of infections. So a lot of mild diseases that maybe before were kept in check and had an R0 of .95 will, with a more immune-compromised populace, turn into having an R0 of 1.15 or something. People in general will be sicker, longer, than before, with a variety of ailments, because Covid is harming their immune systems.