“An important lesson we learned from Corona is that an infection that was initially thought to cause only a short illness can also lead to a chronic illness. This finding led us to examine the long-term consequences of COVID-19 compared to the flu,” said lead author Ziyad Al-Aly, MD, a clinical epidemiologist at the University of Washington, in a media release. “We wanted to know whether and to what extent people with flu also have long-term health effects. Yes, they do – just like with Corona. The big moment was that Long Covid is a much bigger health problem than the Corona infection itself. and “The long flu is a much bigger health problem than the flu.”
