Long COVID - What's the Theory?

We don't quite understand whether these are purely biological or genetic differences, differences in access to healthcare and the way that they report health conditions. We probably need more studies to understand a bit biological, genetic, social behavioral. Black people were more likely to have severe disease from acute COVID, but then were less likely to have long COVID. There could be just cultural reasons to explain why some groups report on going symptoms more than other groups. But even the research that has been published internationally have been conflicting. And several studies found differences with minority age groups being at higher risk. Other studies concluded that race and ethnicity were not associated with post-COVID condition. So I think it's not