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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 13 2020, @12:32AM (1 child)
Surprises of surprises but people who come to the ER to seek care for infectious diseases tend to be undernurished. If you are coming to the ER for an infectious disease, it is because it has lasted a long time, is severe, or both. Not surprisingly when someone feels bad for a long time or really bad for a short time, they often don't eat well. If you don't eat well, it doesn't take too long for serum levels for all sorts of things to drop.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 13 2020, @01:46AM
Why would it be surprising? All critically ill people require 30-300x more vitamin C to maintain healthy levels. There are many papers on this.