Commentary
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.”