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Long COVID
Long COVID is the idea that there's a persistent trail of disability that comes after your acute COVID infection. For perhaps 10% of everybody on planet Earth has ever had COVID, which is hundreds of millions of people. And so it does feel like a big deal to me. It kind of came upon me quite early on. So if you think back to what March and April 2020, when people who had friends in England were seeing their first ever cases or their first ever friends who were affected. You know, clearly certain viruses can have that sort of long term effect. But then for quite a high proportion of people, they won't recover. They have a kind of autoimmune like