So your "evidence" of long-term damage is not clinically-proven data, but unreviewed, statistically insignificant media articles, replete with the qualifying clauses of "could" and "may"...
And in one report, applicable to 30% of patients who were in intensive care (and, at that, maybe... we don't know for sure):
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And in the other case, certain elderly patients who had Covid-pneumonioa, and other illnesses such as cancer and diabetes or other lung conditions caused by smoking...
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(Well, no sheet Sherlock)
Not exactly universally applicable across the entire population though, is it... these "may", "could", "might" examples you provide as - presumably - your best evidence.
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