Youth infected with SARS-CoV-2 do report more symptoms than controls at follow up28, and in a recent study dealing with recovery from COVID, reactivation of latent EBV and SARS-CoV-2 RNAemia were predictors of post-acute sequelae of covid-19 (PASC), and those reporting gastrointestinal PASC, SARS-CoV-2-specific and CMV-specific CD8+ T cells exhibited unique dynamics29. Here, CD8A is linked to long COVID-19.