Long COVID
From the Journals
Repeat COVID infection doubles mortality risk
“Reinfection with COVID-19 increases the risk of both acute outcomes and long COVID.”
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I’m a physician battling long COVID. I can assure you it’s real
“I’ve also seen, firsthand, the frustration of navigating diagnosis and treatment. It’s given me a taste of what millions of other patients are...
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First they get long COVID, then they lose their health care
“Millions of people are now impacted by long COVID, and oftentimes along with that comes the inability to work.”
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For many, long COVID’s impacts go on and on, major study says
“This infection has become so common in a community because it’s so mild and spreading so rapidly that we’re seeing more long COVID symptoms than...
From the Journals
63% of long COVID patients are women, study says
The global study also found that about 6% of people with symptomatic infections had long COVID in 2020 and 2021.
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Epidemic of brain fog? Long COVID’s effects worry experts
“We need to be paying attention to this. What we’ve seen is really the tip of the iceberg.”
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At the front lines of long COVID, local clinics prove vital
While the publicly run clinics may be less expensive or even free for some patients, methods of payment vary from clinic to clinic.
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Long COVID could cost the economy trillions, experts predict
“I think it’s hard for the public to grasp ... and understand the scale of this public health crisis.”
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Desperate long COVID patients turn to unproven alternative therapies
“There are no evidence-based established treatments for long COVID at this point. You can’t blame patients for looking for alternative remedies to...
From the Journals
Post-COVID fatigue, exercise intolerance signal ME/CFS
Of people with persistent fatigue and exertion intolerance following COVID-19, nearly half met the strictest diagnostic criteria for myalgic...
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How do you live with COVID? One doctor’s personal experience
Early in 2020, Anne Peters, MD, caught COVID-19. The author of Medscape’s “Peters on Diabetes” column was sick in March 2020 before state-mandated...