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The public health resources required to help will be astronomical. It behooves us to study long COVID now.
Aside:
760,000,000 * 0.2 = 15,200,000 long COVID cases, conservative estimate).
8 billion * 0.2 = 160 million potential long COVID cases.
Long COVID (post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_COVID
Unexplained post-acute infection syndromes:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35585196/
[PubMed, reviews] post-acute infection syndromes:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=post-acute+infection+syndromes&filter=pubt.review
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Aside: at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic my concern increased exponentially when I learned the SARS-CoV-2 enters human cells by binding to angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2), a membrane protein found on most tissue types (not only lung) - making it far more dangerous than the common flu.
Tissue distribution of ACE2 protein, the functional receptor for SARS coronavirus. A first step in understanding SARS pathogenesis
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7167720/
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