Ronald palacios castrillo2026-03-222026-03-22202310.20944/preprints202309.0211.v1https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202309.0211.v1https://andeanlibrary.org/handle/123456789/84205The collective considerations presented here lead to a crucial question: What truly constitutes the primary public health challenge posed by SARSCoV-2 infection and its variants?The findings of Bowen et al.(1) and Noé et al.(4) have offered us new insights into the actual repercussions of SARSCoV-2 virus infections on public health. They unmistakably point to the late sequelae and complications arising as secondary effects of the viral infection, causing severe and long-term damage to global public health. Rather than the acute infection which has a very low mortality rate in the general population, as initially and commonly believed.enPublic healthPopulationTerm (time)MedicineIntensive care medicineImmunologypreprint