Long COVID

COVID 19, COVID 19 pandemic

A set of conditions characterized by lingering, sometimes debilitating, symptoms after COVID 10 infection.

Characterization

Symptoms include fatigue, headaches, shortness of breath, loss of smell (Anosmia), muscle weakness, fever, and brain fog. Related to Chronic fatigue syndrome? It also happens for children (Thomson2021children). Carfi2020persistent reported the lingering symptoms in many discharged patients in Italy.

Reviews

NIHR provides a review: https://evidence.nihr.ac.uk/themedreview/living-with-covid19/

Davis2023longCOVID is a review paper driven by the long COVID patients (Hannah Davis).

Mandal2020long COVID is a cross-sectional study of persisting symptoms, biomarkers, and imaging abnormalities following hospitalization for COVID-19.

Risk factors

What predicts long COVID? Long COVID risk factors