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RESULTS: Symptoms were present in 385 (89%) participants at diagnosis and 81 (19%) were initially hospitalized. At six to eight months, 111 (26%) reported not

RESULTS: Symptoms were present in 385 (89%) participants at diagnosis and 81 (19%) were initially hospitalized. At six to eight months, 111 (26%) reported not having fully recovered. 233 (55%) participants reported symptoms of fatigue, 96 (25%) had at least grade 1 dyspnea 111 (26%) had DASS-21 scores indicating symptoms of depression. 170 (40%) participants reported at least one general practitioner visit related to COVID-19 after acute illness 10% (8/81) of initially hospitalized individuals were rehospitalized. Individuals that have not fully recovered or suffer from fatigue, dyspnea or depression were more likely to have further healthcare contacts. However, a third of individuals (37/111) that have not fully recovered did not seek further care.

justwanttolearn 5y ago
I haven't had covid but I definitely suffer a lot of these symptoms from the pandemic burn out..
- gremlinsinc 5y ago
  I had bronchitis symptoms for only a week in March 2020, didn't think it was covid, took antibiotics but miraculously this really bad case of Bronchitis cleared up 3 days later.... I get Bronchitis every year or other year... and it's almost ALWAYS a 3-4 week thing. since then I've had brain fog, fatigue, pain in my extremities, numbness in hands/feet (off/on), body aches, when I stand sometimes I have to sit back down for a minute, my standing HR is about 130...just standing, AFTER getting up from sleeping. My sitting is 90... Walking is just 130-140... Depression, and the worst anxiety attacks of my life, just panic, can't stop racing thoughts, etc... Most of this stuff stopped a few months ago when I started doing 2 hours of mindfulness per day after seeing some "glitch" in the matrix type stuff which isn't really relevant here... I can't say for a certainty the weird Bronchitis was Covid, but a lot of signs point to that, and it cleared up after my vaccinations...so who knows... Feel like 80% of normal, which is way better than the 20% I was feeling just this past March.
wk_end 5y ago
A 20% hospitalization rate immediately throws their sample into question. Here in BC (Canada), for instance, the overall case hospitalization rate is 5% [0]. And, FWIW, in BC we performed far fewer tests per capita (around 0.6) [1] than, say, the US (~1.3) [2], suggesting that we missed cases at least as often as they did in the US (per the CDC, which estimated only ~1 in 4 COVID cases detected [3]). So a 20% hospitalization rate is beyond generous (likely by an order of magnitude), and it wouldn't be crazy to figure the same goes for the rest of their stats. Add to that the lack of control, and the self-reported (and potentially psychosomatic) nature of symptoms...not to unreasonably diminish the severity of COVID or deny the reality of Long COVID or anything, but it's frustrating that people are going to read - or the media is going to report on - this uncritically and imagine catching COVID leaves you two coin flips away from permanent disability. I suppose the damage has been long-since done, and with most of the west well on its way, blessedly, to being vaccinated it's moot anyway. It's just hard not to be sick of the hysteria. [0] http://www.bccdc.ca/Health-Info-Site/Documents/COVID_sitrep/Week_25_2021_BC_COVID-19_Situation_Report_Final.docx.pdf http://www.bccdc.ca/Health-Info-Site/Documents/COVID_sitrep/... [1] https://health-infobase.canada.ca/covid-19/epidemiological-summary-covid-19-cases.html?stat=num&measure=tests&map=pt#a2 https://health-infobase.canada.ca/covid-19/epidemiological-s... [2] https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#cases_totaltests https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#cases_totaltests [3] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burden.html https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...

justwanttolearn 5y ago

I haven't had covid but I definitely suffer a lot of these symptoms from the pandemic burn out..

gremlinsinc 5y ago
I had bronchitis symptoms for only a week in March 2020, didn't think it was covid, took antibiotics but miraculously this really bad case of Bronchitis cleared up 3 days later.... I get Bronchitis every year or other year... and it's almost ALWAYS a 3-4 week thing. since then I've had brain fog, fatigue, pain in my extremities, numbness in hands/feet (off/on), body aches, when I stand sometimes I have to sit back down for a minute, my standing HR is about 130...just standing, AFTER getting up from sleeping. My sitting is 90... Walking is just 130-140... Depression, and the worst anxiety attacks of my life, just panic, can't stop racing thoughts, etc... Most of this stuff stopped a few months ago when I started doing 2 hours of mindfulness per day after seeing some "glitch" in the matrix type stuff which isn't really relevant here... I can't say for a certainty the weird Bronchitis was Covid, but a lot of signs point to that, and it cleared up after my vaccinations...so who knows... Feel like 80% of normal, which is way better than the 20% I was feeling just this past March.

wk_end 5y ago

A 20% hospitalization rate immediately throws their sample into question. Here in BC (Canada), for instance, the overall case hospitalization rate is 5% [0]. And, FWIW, in BC we performed far fewer tests per capita (around 0.6) [1] than, say, the US (~1.3) [2], suggesting that we missed cases at least as often as they did in the US (per the CDC, which estimated only ~1 in 4 COVID cases detected [3]). So a 20% hospitalization rate is beyond generous (likely by an order of magnitude), and it wouldn't be crazy to figure the same goes for the rest of their stats. Add to that the lack of control, and the self-reported (and potentially psychosomatic) nature of symptoms...not to unreasonably diminish the severity of COVID or deny the reality of Long COVID or anything, but it's frustrating that people are going to read - or the media is going to report on - this uncritically and imagine catching COVID leaves you two coin flips away from permanent disability. I suppose the damage has been long-since done, and with most of the west well on its way, blessedly, to being vaccinated it's moot anyway. It's just hard not to be sick of the hysteria. [0] http://www.bccdc.ca/Health-Info-Site/Documents/COVID_sitrep/Week_25_2021_BC_COVID-19_Situation_Report_Final.docx.pdf http://www.bccdc.ca/Health-Info-Site/Documents/COVID_sitrep/... [1] https://health-infobase.canada.ca/covid-19/epidemiological-summary-covid-19-cases.html?stat=num&measure=tests&map=pt#a2 https://health-infobase.canada.ca/covid-19/epidemiological-s... [2] https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#cases_totaltests https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#cases_totaltests [3] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burden.html https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...