Posted on 08/10/2021 6:36:14 PM PDT by House Atreides
For many people who contract mild, moderate, or severe COVID-19, the disease's effects don't disappear when the infection fades. A systematic review and meta-analysis published Monday to the journal Scientific Reports found that 80% of cases result in at least one long-term symptom.
The authors of the report scoured more than 18,000 publications, seeking studies assessing the long-term effects of COVID-19 with at least 100 subjects. They found fifteen studies, which collectively followed 47,910 patients for as long as 110 days post-infection. They then pooled the data to discern the prevalence of chronic side effects.
"The five most common symptoms were fatigue (58%), headache (44%), attention disorder (27%), hair loss (25%), and dyspnea [difficult breathing] (24%)," the reviewers reported.
In total, they turned up 55 potential long-term symptoms. Other notable chronic effects included loss of taste (reported in 23% of cases), loss of smell (21%), cough (19%), sweating (17%), and hearing loss (15%).
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Unfortunately, none of the studies included in the review were stratified by disease severity, so we don't know for sure if worse disease exacerbates long-term symptoms, though it seems likely.
"The results assessed in the present study are in line with the current scientific knowledge on other coronaviruses, such as those producing SARS and MERS," the authors wrote. "For example, studies on SARS survivors have shown lung abnormalities months after infection."
The authors also noted that the effects of long-term COVID-19 partly resemble those of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), a nebulous, controversial diagnosis that currently lacks an established cause. CFS sufferers are plagued by "severe incapacitating fatigue, pain, neurocognitive disability, compromised sleep... and worsening of global symptoms following minor increases in physical and/or cognitive activity," the reviewers described….
…"Given that COVID-19 is a new disease, it is impossible to determine how long these effects will last,"…
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearscience.com ...
Sounds worse than getting old 😳
Hair loss? I must have had a really bad case of covid.
WTH did Fauci unleash in the world???
LOL - Good one.
Keep wearing masks and you’ll be even sicker.
My wife and I, both in our sixties, had it in January/February of 2020 before it had a name and survived it without doctor visits or drugs, and I have the IgG and IgM antibodies to prove it.
None of that sh!t happened to us.
The REAL thing we should be concentrating on is THIS WAS A BIOLOGICAL ATTACK BY THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY ON EVERY HUMAN BEING ON EARTH.
We should have turned Xi Jinping into a lamppost decoration eighteen months ago.
There is still time.
wifey still hasn’t recovered complete taste/smell. she had the wuhan flu in december.
Not trying to be a trouble maker but could these effects also be attributed to being on a ventilator for long term? (I have no idea how many days or weeks that would be.) At the very least perhaps being on a ventilator would be partially responsible for the effects.
My brother age 85 just died of viral encephalitis - a non covid infection that went to his brain. Viruses can be deadly and cause long term problems.
“ Keep wearing masks and you’ll be even sicker.”
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True dat. That’s just one of the many reasons my family members don’t wear masks.
“The five most common symptoms were fatigue (58%), headache (44%), attention disorder (27%), hair loss (25%), and dyspnea [difficult breathing] (24%),” the reviewers reported.
Whew, I was worried it would be mostly subjective.
Hopefully none of us who get COVID-19 will have these long term effects.
Shirley doesn’t have to be that way.
EARLY. EFFECTIVE. SAFE. PROVEN. TREATMENTS.
(Hint....HCQ and Ivermectin, Zinc and D are your frens.)
“ Not trying to be a trouble maker but could these effects also be attributed to being on a ventilator for long term?”
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I don’t know but I guess that’s possible for some.
fatigue (58%), headache (44%), attention disorder (27%), hair loss (25%), and dyspnea [difficult breathing] (24%),” the reviewers reported.
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Sounds more like old age and unhealthy habits...
Regardless, rather have these symptoms than those of the poisoned jab.
A VAX’d friend, who just recently had cv, said a migraine was her worst symptom, out of several.
Dittos!
Sorry to hear about the loss of your brother.
It’s been 13 days since my fever broke and the Regen-COV treatment, and i have this chronic fatigue, full headache pain that has a malaise like when you have the flu, weak muscles especially in my calves. Also my lungs feel like i can’t take in full deep breaths like prior to Covid. Hope these symptoms go away completely. I would have been OK if i lost my taste and smell over these symptoms. The first 2 weeks i also lost taste and smell but that already came back.
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