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Considering that there has been tens of millions of people with a covid infection, where are these people with chronic symptoms?
by aga98mtl 6y ago
Considering that there has been tens of millions of people with a covid infection, where are these people with chronic symptoms?
- ceejayoz 6y agohttps://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02598-6 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02598-6 > Symptoms might take a long time to fade; a study posted on the preprint server medRxiv in August followed up on people who had been hospitalized, and found that even a month after being discharged, more than 70% were reporting shortness of breath and 13.5% were still using oxygen at home. > One study of 143 people with COVID-19 discharged from a hospital in Rome found that 53% had reported fatigue and 43% had shortness of breath an average of 2 months after their symptoms started. A study of patients in China showed that 25% had abnormal lung function after 3 months, and that 16% were still fatigued.
- anoncake 6y agoAfter 1 month, 70% report shortness of breath. After 2 months, 43% and after 3 months, we're down to 25%. People are clearly recovering.