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>we know that SARS-COV-2 infection can DEFINITELY cause long term health issues in a significant minority of people infected.

Only 10% of positive cases (not including asymptomatic, untested cases) have any symptoms after 3 weeks.[1]

This is not significant compared to say, pneumonia.[2]

>we also have no reason to believe that there would be long term health issues

Medical history is replete with doctors and pharmaceutical companies making this claim for new treatments which ended up having horrible long term effects for many people.

[1]https://covid.joinzoe.com/post/covid-long-term?fbclid=IwAR1R...

[2]https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/pneumonia/treatment/