On numbers, it notes that:
The links supporting those numbers appear to be this:Research indicates about 10 per cent of the COVID population will suffer from the prolonged condition and half of more than 73,000 of those admitted to hospital had one or more medical complications.
https://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topi ... long-covid
and this:
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanc ... 6/fulltext
The latter link is a very current article published in The Lancet. It concerns a cohort study of 80,388 cases. The study found widespread complications across all ages for all people who had required hospitalisation. The "Discussion" section at the end of the article deals cogently with the serious implications of the study. They could be paraphrased, I think, in the following way - although COVID is more likely to kill you if you're old, its significantly likely to leave you substantially impaired if you're younger. Also, pre-existing health conditions can make you more likely to die of COVID - but they don't affect the likelihood of substantial long-term complications nearly as much.
What it does, in my view, is make it plain that the focus on mortality only is all wrong. So, as we know, young people don't tend to die from the disease - but the study suggests that letting younger adults and children get the disease isn't a sane option, because of the substantial risk of long-term, life-altering morbidity. We're talking about serious physical dysfunction, here - there are plenty of awful things that illnesses can do to people that are short of dying in the short-term from them.
