You can feel tired and exhausted for months after your initial infection August 19, 2022 / Infectious Disease You had COVID-19 a few weeks — or even months — ago. But you’re still dealing […]
Is It Normal to Have Shortness of Breath After COVID-19?
COVID-19 can damage the tissue in your lungs and may also affect your breathing patterns, which can cause shortness of breath to linger. It’s possible for this symptom to persist […]
Long COVID and the digestive system: Mayo Clinic expert describes common symptoms
Sharon Theimer June 21, 2022 ROCHESTER, Minnesota — Long COVID syndrome, also known as post-COVID, is more than fatigue and shortness of breath. Symptoms such as headaches, brain fog and ringing in the ears have been […]
What Is Long COVID?
By Rachael Zimlich, BSN, RN August 08, 2023 By the end of February 2022, nearly 60% of the U.S. population had SARS-CoV-2 antibodies indicating they had been infected with COVID-19.1 Even for those […]
Cognitive disorders and sleep disturbances in long COVID]
Authors: Claudia Schilling 1, Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg 2, Janina Isabel Schweiger 2PMID: 35576015 PMCID: PMC9109661 DOI: 10.1007/s00115-022-01297-z Background: During the last 2 years of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, knowledge about the long-term effects of the disease, the so-called […]
Long COVID Now Looks like a Neurological Disease, Helping Doctors to Focus Treatments
The causes of long COVID, which disables millions, may come together in the brain and nervous system Stephani Sutherland on March 1, 2023 Tara Ghormley has always been an overachiever. She finished […]
Researchers fear people of color may be disproportionately affected by long Covid
Blitshteyn worries about the low rate of full recovery she observed in a March 2021 case series of 20 patients with new-onset postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (a condition affecting blood flow that […]
New research sheds light on the causes of fatigue after COVID-19
Newcastle University MAY 11, 2023 Experts from Newcastle University found the nervous system of people with post-COVID fatigue was underactive in three key areas. Fatigue is one of the most […]
COVID-19 boosts risks of health problems 2 years later, giant study of veterans says
SARS-CoV-2’s public health impact is worse than that of heart disease or cancer, study claims; others say the work may overestimate harm for the general population. Three-and-a-half years since SARS-CoV-2 […]
Long COVID: Shorter Life? New research reveals an arduous road to recovery
A new study published in Nature Medicine has found that the physical fallout from long COVID may last two years or longer and can take a toll on quality of […]