[Dr Winston O Boogie jr]

Originally Posted by Nightengale212

I can tell you from working in a Federal Government research hospital affiliated with Brown University, I get daily up to date Covid info to my .gov email that I am mandated to review from all the DC agencies along with the Covid research being done at Brown. That being said I have yet to read any info from all these sources about long-term effects of Covid. And the reason for that is that nobody who has already contracted Covid has lived long enough post recovery to experience what would be considered a long-term effect. So if you are finding information that is predicting a poor long-term prognosis for someone who has contracted and recovered from Covid that is speculative at best. And I don't see any useful purpose in sharing speculative info without noting the source from which it originated from so one would have the opportunity to review it and come to their own conclusions regarding it's validity.

I think that the poster may have been referring to the long term effects of being placed on a ventilator.

Roughly 20% of Covid-19 patients require hospitalization but only about 5% require a ventilator. Being placed on a ventilator had been a death sentence for many patients and those that survived did experience long term issues.

However, an increasing number of those placed on a ventilator are surviving and with fewer long term effects than previous numbers. Perhaps the health care professionals are learning to use ventilators in a better way.