This is a sensitive topic as many want to get back to normal, as before long covid. Suppose these long covid symptoms highlighted an underlying problem?
In clinical medicine, many patients present with a specific condition (like a stroke or TIA) only to realize that there was an unknown health issue to put them at risk. Usually a significantly elevated cholesterol, silent hypertension or autoimmunity could be a factor.
The challenge is to figure that out in long covid.
Without this work being done, the long term risk remains.
Prior Subclinical Inflammation Predisposes to Long Covid