Dutch Uncle
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I'm hearing more and more stories like that. My former attorney and her family all got it during the summer. Her husband and teen daughter are okay, but she has possibly-permanent heart damage. Like your friend, months later she is still coughing and has chest pain upon exertion. She isn't even quite 50 years old yet.
As for the false claims that the virus is less lethal now, this is not true. It's a statistical artifact due to the fact that we are doing far, far more testing now than at the beginning of the pandemic when only those with symptoms were tested due to lack of test kits.
Which is why, despite Trump's aborted fetus miracle cure, I think he's showing some signs he's being held together with Dr. Feelgood injections and steroids to suppress post-COVID problems.