Thursday, March 11, 2021

[Correspondence] Long-haul COVID: heed the lessons from other infection-triggered illnesses

According to the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center, more than 115 million people worldwide have been infected with SARS-CoV-2 during the COVID-19 pandemic, with extensive implications for morbidity and mortality. Description of long-term effects of COVID-19 are apparing in the medical literature; the first large cohort study1 with 6-months' follow-up has been published, and more data are sure to follow. A small number of studies point not only to persistent imaging and testing abnormalities across several organ systems in the postacute period, but to a high frequency of patient-reported symptoms such as fatigue, insomnia, anxiety and depression, autonomic disturbances, cognitive difficulties, pain, and others.

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