Official Covid-19 Statistics Are Missing Something Critical

Even if you recover from Covid-19, you may not escape unscathed

Thomas Smith
Elemental
Published in
8 min readJul 10, 2020

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At the moment, official record-keeping offers only three options when it comes to Covid-19: infection, recovery, or death. This misses a broad range of other potential outcomes for people who catch the virus — many of them bad.

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