New studies have shown it also does severe damage to heart muscle. So people who recover will have life long lung and cardiac issues. The flu doesn't do either.
I, probably like most people have been reading everything I can on the subject in the high hope of avoiding covid-19.
Actually, the flu could also possibly leave life long damage in the elderly. Any kind of massive inflammation or stress can leave heart damage.
But the bottom line I get from all this is that most everything you read is theory, it's too early for guaranteed definitive answers, the numbers aren't accurate because everybody hasn't been tested, the situation is fluid and it's weeks/months/years from truly being over.
They say it might over for football season, but would you sit in a stadium with 40,000 people before you've either had the virus and recovered or had the vaccine shot? I wouldn't. A lot of people wouldn't.
It's going to be a long time before normal life returns. I certainly hope they put more emphasis on public health and science going forward. Cutting budgets doesn't save money when it backfires and somebody should have been paying more attention way back in January. Some of them paid enough attention to dump stock, nice that they think of themselves first and then say nothing for weeks.