Long Covid is destroying careers, leaving economic distress in its wake
How are they able to determine that 'long covid' is a thing? (I'm not saying it's impossible to do so, I just don't see any evidence that they have convincingly done so).
The people in the article are suffering from many events at the same time, losing jobs, having financial distress, suffering from a scary illness, being locked down at home, having children locked down at home, a likely disruption of any pre-existing mental health care - many of these for the course of years.
I think it is likely that the lockdowns, loss of jobs, etc is leading a widespread increase in depression. This increase would be completely independent of whether a person had previously contracted Covid. The symptoms listed in this article are all just symptoms of clinical depression. I think the most likely hypothesis, which would at least need to be discounted to claim that there is some kind of chronic Covid symptoms lasting years, is that people who previously had Covid are more likely to be suffering depression in recent years but only at the same rate that everyone else is also more likely to be suffering depression.
I have seen claims that fluvoxamine cures long COVID. This would be for after the virus has been cleared from your body, but you still have cognitive impairments.
The NIH has acknowledged that the drug is useful for treatment of acute cases, but I don't know of any guidance for treatment of long COVID.
if only they were vaccinated