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Yes, it key to underline this every time. Medical professionals and policy makers were appropriately informed about the risk of #LongCovid in early 2020. By May 2020, Long Covid was an established phenomenon. By August 2020, it was formally acknowledged by @WHO.
It was already known at the beginning of the pandemic many SARS survivors were ill for years, or had never recovered. I collected information around this under #longSARS. SARS-CoV-2, of course, is called as such for its similarities with SARS-COV.
Therefore, the pandemic has been mismanaged since the beginning. Morbidity from a SARS virus was not accounted for. MERS, the other severe coronavirus to have spilled into humans, similarly had high morbidity. Covid is not a "bad flu" or a "cold".
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