I am still afraid of catching COVID. As a young, healthy, bivalently boosted physician, I no longer worry that I'll end up strapped to a ventilator, but it does seem plausible that even a mild case of the disease could shorten my life, or leave me with chronic fatigue, breathing trouble, and brain fog. Roughly one in 10 Americans appears to share my concern, including plenty of doctors.
"We know many devastating symptoms can persist for months," the physician Ezekiel Emanuel wrote this past May in The Washington Post.
"Like everyone, I want this pandemic nightmare to be over. But I also desperately fear living a debilitated life of mental muddle or torpor."…
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