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'Long Covid': Why are some people not recovering?
For most people, Covid-19 is a brief and mild disease but some are left struggling with symptoms including lasting fatigue, persistent pain and breathlessness for months.
The condition known as "long Covid" is having a debilitating effect on people's lives, and stories of being left exhausted after even a short walk are now common.
So far, the focus has been on saving lives during the pandemic, but there is now a growing recognition that people are facing long-term consequences of a Covid infection.
Yet even basic questions - such as why people get long Covid or whether everyone will fully recover - are riddled with uncertainty.
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'Long Covid': Why are Some People not Recovering?
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 12 2020, @07:11PM (2 children)
It only lated a few months. I would be out of breath fast despite not having too many breathing problems during the orignal infection. Think for most, it will eventually pass but I got sick real early in the year.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by HiThere on Monday October 12 2020, @07:45PM
Maybe. You are one data point, and also you may relapse in a month or two. Or, of course, not. You don't know.
In fact, which the cause isn't known (in detail), the only way to know is to collect lots of data over a long period of time. 5 years would be too short a study. Of course, pending that study each symptom-free month increases the probability that you're permanently symptom free, but give it a few decades before you give it certainty. Consider chicken-pox. (Of course COVID can't hide the same way that chicken pox does, but there are suggestions that it can hide in the gonads or possibly in neural tissue protected against immune reactions. But suggestions sure isn't proof, and maybe it can't. How lucky are you feeling?)
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 12 2020, @08:00PM
I had it too. Then it turned out I just ate too much and it was gas.