Ross Douthat: What to do when COVID doesn’t go away

Among the many things that nobody knows about the disease that has overturned our lives is how long its effects last. I don’t just mean the possibility of coronavirus damage lurking invisibly in the heart or lungs or brain. I mean the simpler question of what it takes, and how long, for some uncertain percentage of the sick to actually feel better.Two months ago Ed Yong of The Atlantic reported on COVID’s “long-haulers” — people who are sick for months rather than t