We Still Don't Know All the Long-Term Consequences of 'Mild' COVID-19

Surviving COVID-19 is one thing. Becoming healthy again is another. Recent studies have found that even people who didn’t seem to have life-threatening cases show signs of damage to their heart. We don’t know what the future has in store for them.

While I’m thinking specifically about this study from Germany showing heart damage in 80% of the patients examined, there are other clues that there’s a large, murky gray area on the spectrum of illness in between dying and surviving unscathed.

For example, we’ve known for a while that...