>The virus seems to be able to have long lasting effects in otherwise healthy people who survive, albeit I find it hard to find a legitimate study about the prevalence of this rather than popular "news".
There isn't a study showing a significantly higher prevalence of adverse long-term effects compared to other respiratory viruses among healthy infectees.
My concern around this is that if long-Covid like symptoms are common with other respiratory illnesses, then how have we been missing them for so long?
Honestly, one thing we might get out of Covid is a better understanding of some chronic illnesses that we currently don't treat well (like Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, for instance).
There isn't a study showing a significantly higher prevalence of adverse long-term effects compared to other respiratory viruses among healthy infectees.