Terribly misleading headline.<p>The study in question seems heavily biased toward people who were <i>hospitalized</i> with COVID:<p>> Findings: From a total of 2100 studies identified, 57 studies with 250 351 survivors of COVID-19 met inclusion criteria. The mean (SD) age of survivors was 54.4 (8.9) years, 140 196 (56%) were male, and 197 777 (79%) were hospitalized during acute COVID-19.<p>79% hospitalization rate is obviously not correct for the average COVID infection.<p>However, the study results are still significant: A large portion of the <i>hospitalized</i> COVID-19 patients are experiencing long COVID symptoms.<p>A separate question (that isn't really answered by this study) is how many non-hospitalized people are experiencing long COVID. That's a difficult question to answer because "long COVID" has various vague definitions. Unfortunately, I think we need to introduce multiple levels of long COVID to describe the symptoms, as the current definition is so broad that it covers everything from people experiencing mild nagging symptoms to people so debilitated that they struggle to be upright for any significant amount of time. Lumping the entire spectrum into a single definition seems like a quick way to downplay the severity of severe long COVID.