Long term effects of COVID-19
Introduction:
COVID-19 is bad enough. Since roughly July, scientific articles have been documenting what is being referred to as post-COVID syndrome. A proportion of individuals who were infected by COVID-19, even with mild symptoms, have been reporting continued symptoms weeks beyond their original infection. In this article, I will be going through the most recent evidence towards this phenomenon to help readers understand what it is. I am focusing on the most recent evidence given that this means that the authors would be making statements using more data (as more people have gotten sick over the months, we can use this additional data to learn how to more effectively address the virus).
How common is it for people who had COVID-19 to continue to suffer symptoms after the infection resolves?
Based on the two publications that I selected as providing information that is most relevant to this question, the paper documenting findings in Norway (European nation) reported that of the 451 individuals they talked with 2–6 months after infection,67% of men and 53% of women were symptom free¹. So were we to consider a group of 100 men and a group of 100 women who had COVID and who…
