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Re:As Their Numbers Grow, Covid-19 “Long Haulers” Stump Experts by TFortunato on Friday September 25, 2020 @10:24AM (#24590068)
Did you read the article? They didn't say it was unique to Covid-19, and literally brought up long-term effects of SARS in some patients.
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Re:As Their Numbers Grow, Covid-19 “Long Haulers” Stump Experts by twic on Friday September 25, 2020 @10:56AM (#24590469)
Phrases like "Stump Experts" and "Puzzling Persistence" are chosen to imply that this is something unprecedented and scary.

This piece is mostly about the heart effects of COVID-19, but it hammers home the same point - that none of these effects are particularly unusual or surprising, they're just occurring at a massively larger scale, with massively more news coverage, than before:

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/09/covid-19-...

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