https://www.washingtonpost.com/heal...73cf16-d50c-11eb-a53a-3b5450fdca7a_story.html
Here is another article about this, but not too much to go on. I don't see how the answer can be known yet, as this virus is just two years old. IMO it would have to take years before scientists know if it can lie dormant and emerge 20 years from now. Honestly, how can that be known at this early point in time?
I had chicken pox when I was 14, and although I haven't had shingles 50 years later, I know I could have that emerge someday. But there's a shot for that!
As
@jjenny mentioned, if there were a shot to melt people's weight, I'm sure many people would jump on that.
Smokers already pay a higher premium for life insurance. However, once we start lurching in the direction of lifestyle choices for health, we can go anywhere. Most doctors say a plant-based diet is much healthier than a meat-based diet. I haven't eaten meat since I got married in 1978, except in 1981 when I was pregnant and the OB said I had to. So should people who eat meat be penalized?
Like in the past when apps on a phone was a new thing and the catchphrase was "there's an app for that," I feel that way about any disease that can be prevented by a shot. Flu...there's a shot for that! Tuberculosis...there's a shot for that! Pneumonia...there's a shot for that! Measles...there's a shot for that! Covid...there's a shot for that!
Afaik flu doesn't lie latent in the body; I believe people have to be newly infected to get flu again. But then again TB is a respiratory disease and it can lie dormant. So right now Covid is too new and long Covid is being examined to get clues about it.
But it seems to be a puzzle that cannot yet be solved.
IMO.