Isn’t it just a bad cold at this point?

No. The risk of long-term disability remains substantial.

Damn. You don’t hear about that stuff as much. I wonder how many people are affected by it and just don’t realize it.

My uncle was one of those “it’s just a cold” people, and now he’s mostly disabled from long covid. Severe breathing problems and barely survived heart surgery last year. Before covid he was an active middle aged guy, working on a ranch and regularly going out hunting and fishing.