Covid-19 long term effects

>lung and organ damage proportionate to disease severity, appearing on those treated in ICU for weeks.
https://www1.racgp.org.au/newsgp/clinical/what-are-the-long-term-health-risks-post-covid-19
https://erj.ersjournals.com/content/early/2020/05/07/13993003.01217-2020

>however, between 40% and 80% of confirmed coronavirus cases are asymptomatic
https://www1.racgp.org.au/newsgp/clinical/asymptomatic-covid-19-rate-could-be-much-higher-th
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7270890/

>only 2% of coronavirus patients are even admitted to ICU
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6924e2.htm?s_cid=mm6924e2_w

>of those ICU admissions, 72% - 86% of had co-morbidities, with the most common being chronic kidney disease and congestive heart failure and the average age being above 70.
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00134-020-05955-1.pdf
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2763485

>This means that unless you are old and already chronically ill, you are unlikely to experience severe illness and thus even less likely to have long term side effect.

>These effects are not at all dissimilar the long-term effects of severe influenza and MERS infection which causes damage to the heart, lungs, intestines, liver, kidney, and cognitive function of critically ill
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1473309909702336
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(20)30434-5/fulltext
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4235643/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5343125/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1606546/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/984071/

>”long covid” also does not exist. Fewer than 1 in 25 patients HOSPITALIZED for Covid returned to hospital emergency rooms within two weeks after discharge, and only half of those needed to be readmitted
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11606-020-06120-6