One of my emerging hypotheses is that COVID-19 is an accelerationist virus. It takes a few years off your life. If you're older or in poor health, this may kill you. But for younger people, it *may* shorten life expectancy on average. A hypothesis to test.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/how-does-coronavirus-kill-clinicians-trace-ferocious-rampage-through-body-brain-toes#
Please note this is just a hypothesis. It's based on severity of organ damage, self-reports, long-term effects seen in SARS.

But something like life expectancy (or QALYs) takes a while to track. Need to begin longitudinal studies of COVID-19 patients now. https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1252044912641445888
We may need to accelerate biomedicine to find & fix all the issues caused by COVID-19 across the body.

Diagnostics: need full body readout of everything broken (like Snyder integrome, http://q.bio , @goforward to nth power)

Treatment: unblock regenerative medicine
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