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Saturday 06 August 2022
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Some suffer from symptoms after recovering from infection with the Corona virus, and these symptoms may affect the way people live, and they are known as the symptoms of long-term corona.
And a new study that included adults with corona found that one in 8 people may experience symptoms of the disease months after the initial infection.
The study, published in The Lancet, found that 12.7% of people infected with “Covid-19” developed new symptoms or increased in severity three months after their initial diagnosis, a percentage lower than what some other research has found.
The new study surveyed 4,231 people infected with “Covid-19”, and 8,462 healthy people, and researchers examined them 24 times during the period between March and August 2021, and compared the two groups, scientists have not yet agreed on what the symptoms of “Covid-19” are long. duration.
In this study, researchers asked about 23 symptoms, with fatigue and shortness of breath being the most common. Several participants also reported feeling chest pain.
The limitations of the study are that it was conducted in the Netherlands, and did not include participants of diverse races.
In addition, most of the data was collected before vaccines were available. Some studies indicate that vaccination can help protect against long-term Covid-19 disease.
The research was also conducted before the omicron mutant of the coronavirus dominated, so it was not clear if the results would be similar in people with later strains of the virus.
The researchers stress that scientists must do more to determine the causes of long-term “Covid-19” and the percentage of people who contract it, as well as how to treat or even prevent it.
The study stated that “what hindered the research was the lack of consensus on the prevalence of post-Covid-19 cases” and their causes.
The study described the long-term “Covid-19” as “the next public health disaster in the pipeline,” and that “there is an urgent need for empirical data to inform the scale and scope of the problem to support the development of an appropriate healthcare response.”
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