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I think this infection has taken on a kind of mythical status in that when events occur in the post recovery course (or the acute phase for that matter) it's the first time we've ever seen it...post severe pneumonia of any etiology can be a righteous bi**h. Deep vein thrombosis, loculated empyema (pleural pus pockets)requiring surgery, months of rehab, etc...this stuff is so common and when it's because of influenza A, no one bats an eyelash....C19 is obviously an order of magnitude more contagious and that means there will be more critically ill people with it, but the pneumonia it causes is pneumonia.True, but I think even a few months of debilitating symptoms, without knowing if or when there's an endpoint, is enough to dispel the notion that COVID outcomes are binary, and that getting infected is no big deal for 98% of the population.