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Amos's avatar

I think that for many young adults, COVID was their first experience with a really bad viral illness. Many had never had chicken pox (they were vaccinated for that), and many had never even had a case of influenza that they can remember. As a middle-age person, I remember having chicken pox, 3 bouts with influenza, and another random 2-week long fever before my mid-twenties. When I had covid, it was like the worst case of influenza I could recall, and I was fully expecting 2-4 weeks until I felt 100% again, which was the case. I knew it was normal. I remember a lot of young adults being alarmed by this ("It's been two weeks and I still feel like crap! Something is wrong!")

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KaiKai's avatar

Long COVID or post acute sequelae of COVID is what we have known for decades: post viral syndrome. The demographics are similar, the symptoms too.

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