COVID-19 Outbreak Information Updates (Reboot) [over 150.000,000 US cases (est.), 6,422,520 US hospitilizations, 1,148,691 US deaths.]

Doug B said
It doesn't get a lot of attention ... but any major viral infection can and do cause long-hauler symptoms, I'm not even sure long COVID is more common than "long influenza", "long meningitis", etc.

When my son was an infant, he contracted RSV like most babies do. Instead of just snapping right back after getting over the infection, however ... he required home-administered albuterol treatments for about another year-and-a-half.

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/326619#what-is-it
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26475444/
https://www.vox.com/22298751/long-term-side-effects-covid-19-hauler-symptoms

Thanks for the info. I didn't realize that there was that risk from the Flu. I do know that my brother appears to have some long term effects for a pneumonia that he had years ago, but I was unware of the issues with the Flu.

Maybe it's just the fact that COVID is in the news, but it seems the 'long COVID" issues tend to be more common and worse. But, that's anecdotal and I'd certainly concede that it isn't if the numbers show otherwise. I supposed part of it is that news just came out today that at least 4 professional soccer players have been diagnosed with "heart issues" following COVID infections. One of them, Alphonso Davies, who plays for Bayern Munich and the Canadian National Team, apparently has mycarditis which we were just talking about here yesterday. So, I guess I wonder if the issues from other viral infections are as serious as that or if they tend to be more in the nature of less life threatening issues?