COVID19 CAN WRECK HAVOC ON YOUR BODY. SO WILL IT CAUSE HEALTH ISSUES DECADES DOWN THE ROAD?

By Chandrayee Roy Choudhury, Canada: The illness once dubbed a "pneumonia of unknown cause" in the early days of 2020 has revealed itself to be something far more strange.
Two years into this pandemic, we now know COVID-19 can lead to a dizzying array of symptoms — from heart inflammation to brain fog to the loss of sense of smell or taste. Some people's toes turn red; others go on to develop diabetes. SARS-CoV-2 also impacts various organs and sometimes causes long-lasting breathing problems, fatigue or chronic kidney impairment.
Miller, the researcher at McMaster, University Hamilton Ontario, said he's most concerned about those kinds of long-term health impacts that arise soon after infection and seem to persist for prolonged periods, "or perhaps even for life."
"What I would not be particularly worried about is the likelihood that 10, 20 years from now, tons of people are going to experience some major chronic illness that is related to SARS-CoV-2 infections," he said.
But even rare illnesses, in the context of a global pandemic, could become a substantial burden on the health-care system just by virtue of the sheer number of people getting infected all at once.