While the end of the pandemic may be finally coming into view, we’re only now beginning to understand what complications arise after recovering COVID-19 Infection; COVID Long Haulers.
Although COVID-19 is not the only condition to cause post-infectious symptoms, it could help our understanding of many other conditions that share similar characteristics.
There are a lot of ways that infectious agents can do long-term damage to the host, either directly or indirectly. For instance, damage from the initial infection may cause a cascade of host responses that result in pathology even after the acute infection has resolved