luna1580: so people who "excessively worry" about getting covid are more likely to develop long covid? does that make long covid psychosomatic?

I suspect in the end we'll find that a small subset of people have legitimate biologically-based "Long Covid," due to exacerbations of preexisting medical conditions (e.g. already had lung damage from radon, smoke, asbestos, silica, etc. and COVID pushed them over the edge into more significant symptoms) while others are largely suffering from physical manifestations of anxiety and depression.

The fact that COVID has a long... half life guess is the best term... it hits sharply, and you keep feeling better but not 100% as you slowly creep back to normal.