According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 5.3% of Americans currently have long COVID, with a significant proportion of those experiencing disability from the condition.
In today’s report, more than 200 symptoms are formerly listed as possible signs of long COVID, affecting every organ system. Women are twice as likely to men to experience long COVID, but people who have never received a diagnosis or even a positive COVID-19 test may be experiencing symptoms of the condition.
Though people with mild or even asymptomatic cases of acute COVID can develop long COVID, the report recognizes that people whose infection required hospitalization are two to three times more likely to experience long COVID than are those who were not hospitalized.
Similarities to other chronic conditions
Emphasized throughout the report is the similarity long COVID has to other chronic conditions, including myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), fibromyalgia, and postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS).
Like those conditions there is no current way to treat long COVID, though long COVID does have a better prognosis than does ME/CFS.
Source: Report: More than 200 symptoms tied to long COVID | CIDRAP







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