It is consistent with the ‘silent hypoxia’ story—that the virus destroys the lungs in a way that makes them very inefficient it blood oxygenation—but initially still good at expelling CO2. We don’t feel low oxygen—we only feel too much CO2 in blood. Here is an example article about that: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/20/opinion/coronavirus-testing-pneumonia.html , but googling reveals many more stories.
Overall this does not look very difficult to evaluate more scientifically—so if this is a real phenomenon then there should be peer reviewed research about that and I was kind of skeptical at the beginning, but maybe it is just too early. Of course the anecdotal evidence that we have is consistent with https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/grrMAwJrELry5BhSy/littlewood-s-law-and-the-global-media and might not mean much—so it is very important to have some stats on that.
I would like to discuss #2 - there are some reports about that:
https://www.zerohedge.com/health/young-covid-positive-redditors-describe-agony-symptoms-lasting-nearly-two-months-after—these leads to Reddit patient reports, I don’t use Reddit that much and I don’t know how reliable they are, are those even from real people?
It is consistent with the ‘silent hypoxia’ story—that the virus destroys the lungs in a way that makes them very inefficient it blood oxygenation—but initially still good at expelling CO2. We don’t feel low oxygen—we only feel too much CO2 in blood. Here is an example article about that: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/20/opinion/coronavirus-testing-pneumonia.html , but googling reveals many more stories.
Another Reddit discussion thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/g3rv7h/permament_lung_damage_found_in_revovered_patients/ . It leads to some strange German language publication on an Italian web site, again not very reliable. But google for the doctor involved: https://www.google.com/search?&q=Innsbruck%2C+Frank+Hartig and you get more stories.
Overall this does not look very difficult to evaluate more scientifically—so if this is a real phenomenon then there should be peer reviewed research about that and I was kind of skeptical at the beginning, but maybe it is just too early. Of course the anecdotal evidence that we have is consistent with https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/grrMAwJrELry5BhSy/littlewood-s-law-and-the-global-media and might not mean much—so it is very important to have some stats on that.