That's the real danger of this virus. Losing a few percent of the global population, and mostly the old and already sick, would not be a huge loss, especially in terms of productivity. But if it does permanent damage, and we can get reinfected and the next time is worse... we could potentially be dealing with something far worse than the plague. And we won't know either way until at least a year has passed.
with all the medications tried and treatments given to curb the fever and the respiratory symptoms (immuno response) some of the meds can cause other issues like long term issues after.
whilst doctors are giving antivirals for the actual virus. some are also as last ditch/trials doing megadosing of things that can curb the immuno response symptoms. because any antiviral wont work if the patient is dead so they have to keep the patient breathing long enough for things to kick in. so curbing the breathing distress and fever and cough is also being looked into
this means that people are getting a cocktail of drugs.. yep even people doing trials of the anitmalarial drugs are not just on that one drug.
its this cocktail of drugs everyone in hospital is getting means that there is a cocktail of side effects too..
especially those where the drug is megadosed.
however those who recovered cant really tell that they are impotent because its not like the went home last week and instantly wanted to make a baby and not able to get their spouse pregnant and instantly blaming the meds.
it takes time to actually find out consequences.
expect there to be some after effects that may be temporary. but calling it 'dangerous' creates and air of alarm before the facts are even in.
due to one study on the antimalarial. there is a chance of being photosensitive (getting skin irratation/burns easy) in a few cases of the trial.
this again does not mean ring the alarm bells.
as for the impotence the link actually says the cocktail of drugs.. based on if using similar to the SARS/MERS cocktail.. that it can make a guys testicles imflammed.. this means your balls will feel like they are burning. which can reduce sperm count and if left untreated impotent.
it does not mean instant impotents for all corona virus recoveries
alot of people want to put out warnings of possible side effects/long term. but when it worded like a warning to everyone and its sent too early to really know. then the warning itself can be more dangerous than the context of the warning is addressing
the issue is that the meds used during the sars/mers pandemic years ago were slightly different. yep they are trying safer alternatives this time round so the cocktail of possible long term issues can be different.
thus too early to tell and too early to even say that corona recovered patients will be impotent.
this again is why its stupid for people to promote megadosing anything without doing research first(yep you know who you are in this forum)