So the interesting question would be if it happens more often for covid, or if we just observe it more often because covid is so widespread.
So many articles and stories in the media have been implying from the start of the outbreak that COVID-19 is some crazy new type of virus, rather a mutation of a virus that has been infecting people for centuries.
> articles and stories in the media
Most of those are hot garbage.
Mono -- a seemingly innocent infection -- itself probably has many long term health effects:
https://www.cincinnatichildrens.org/news/release/2018/mono-v...
It's important to study COVID as well, of course, but in general I think it's becoming clear that encounters with viruses change people with possible long term consequences. Sometimes small and sometimes big...