From WaPo:
The range of reported symptoms and inability to provide a prognosis for patients have perplexed long-covid researchers, even as the breadth of the challenge has become clearer. Between 7 million and 23 million Americans — including 1 million who can no longer work — are suffering from the long-term effects of infection with the virus, according to government estimates. Those numbers are expected to rise as covid becomes an endemic disease.
The last US Census has us numbering around 330 million, so one infectious disease is seriously affecting nearly 10%, on the high end, of us. That’s both a tremendous drag and a loss of productivity.
For deniers, it’s hard to yell about your rights when you can’t pry yourself out of bed, at least for those long-covid sufferers who have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) symptoms.
