And that’s no April Fool’s. According to the Long COVID Household Pulse Survey. Here’s the percentage of all U.S. adults who are experiencing long COVID:

There’s a big spike starting at the end of fall/beginning of winter, and that spike is also seen in the percentage of all U.S. adults who have ever experienced long COVID too. The percentage of adults who have experienced any activity limitations due to long COVID also has increased:

The percentage of adults who have experienced significant limitations due to long COVID also increased, but I don’t think there’s enough statistical power to draw any meaningful conclusions there.

What’s disturbing is that I would have expected (and hoped) that as immunity, either due to vaccination or previous infection accumulated, even if it was partial, we shouldn’t have seen the fall/winter spike because systemic infections would have been rarer.

Anyway, this is a very long way of saying we need an Operation Warp Speed 2.0 to get some of the promising second generation vaccines to market.