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A Short History of Long COVID

A Short History of Long COVID
The book cover of “Fear of a Microbial Planet: How a Germophobic Safety Culture Makes Us Less Safe” by Steve Templeton, published by Brownstone Institute. Brownstone Institute
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As the reality of the steeply age-stratified and comorbidity-amplified disease continued to frustrate the worldview of many COVID maximizers, there was a popular drumbeat to expand the COVID threat beyond cases and deaths, and the most mysterious, terror-inducing phenomenon that could be exploited was Long COVID. Long COVID isn’t a single phenomenon, but rather many phenomena, a catch-all term which could be summarized as “anything bad that happens after you’ve had COVID.”

Steve Templeton
Steve Templeton
Author
Steve Templeton, senior scholar at Brownstone Institute, is an associate professor of microbiology and immunology at Indiana University School of Medicine—Terre Haute. His research focuses on immune responses to opportunistic fungal pathogens. He has also served on Gov. Ron DeSantis’s Public Health Integrity Committee and was a co-author of “Questions for a COVID-19 commission,” a document provided to members of a pandemic response-focused congressional committee. Follow him on Substack.
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