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No major health body says that. The WHO defines post COVID-19 condition as symptoms starting or continuing three months after infection and lasting at least two months with no other explanation, and its definition requires at least one persisting physical symptom. The NIH runs a research programme, RECOVER, on it as a multisystem physical illness.
The Stoned Ape idea is a real hypothesis Terence McKenna proposed in 1992, but mainstream anthropologists and biologists have largely rejected it for lacking evidence and for misusing the research it leans on. There's no direct archaeological or genetic evidence tying psilocybin use to the brain's rapid growth, and critics note that psychedelic-using societies didn't turn out the way the theory predicts. It's a popular fringe idea in psychedelic culture, not an accepted explanation for human brain evolution.
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