Long COVID: Much More Than You Wanted To Know

Comprehensive 2021 MMTYWTK on Long COVID: it's many mechanisms (post-ICU, lung scarring, anosmia, post-viral fatigue, some psychosomatic); prevalence ~20% but graded; ~half of 6-week symptoms persist; children probably <5%; vaccination cuts symptomatic COVID but maybe only 2-3x the per-case Long-COVID risk; and a personal QALY-style risk calc (~1/150 to 1/25,000 per year of terrible Long COVID). Includes a valuable 'chronic fatigue is real, like willpower is real' passage.

Quality 77 · Excellent. Strong/low-Excellent: thorough, numerate, honest-about-uncertainty synthesis of a fast-moving preliminary literature; a notch below the Lockdown/Pregnancy MMTYWTKs because the 2021 data was so provisional.

Claude’s paradigm shift 52 · Moderate. Notable: a careful synthesis + the postviral-syndrome-comparison framing (flu/mono/1918), building on emerging data.

Real-world impact 3 · Moderate. Influential in the Long-COVID personal-risk-assessment discourse (cited alongside the AcesoUnderGlass/Matt Bell pieces). =3.