2024-03-15 12:41

In histories of the period before modern medicine, people were often “sickly” in some fashion or another.

That’s been much less true the past hundred years or so. With a few exceptions (terrible accidents, horrific war injuries), if whatever you had didn’t kill you, you probably got entirely better.

Since I first heard of Long Covid, I’ve been expecting a return to the historical norm.

Looks like I was right:

A total of 17.6% of American adults have ever experienced long Covid symptoms, the survey found.

Source: The Guardian