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As a result, there is a real danger that a broad-scale investigation into the origin of long COVID is postponed or neglected by funding agencies and the medical establishment.
While the initial pandemic forced governments to organize a response to the sudden crisis, an epidemic of chronic illness may not raise alarms that spur us into immediate action.
Like climate change, a gradually-evolving threat, especially one perceived to be far away, is much harder to address.
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The threat here is not that far off - which is why it is of grave importance that we push for an explanatory theory of long COVID (& post-acute infection syndrome) that can fully account for the totality of symptoms observed after an initial infection with SARS-CoV-2 despite no clinical findings of active infection
ASIDE: see my earlier post re: human psychology & deferred risk / risk aversion:
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110707507862338608
Why people struggle to understand climate risk
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