Your Chance of Full Recovery From Long-Covid is Not 100%
Chances of long-Covid recovery also become slimmer with female sex, obesity, older age, more severe Covid-19, and past the 5–6-month mark post-Covid.
When SARS-CoV-1 emerged 20 years ago in China, no one anticipated the disease could cause long-SARS. When SARS-CoV-2 — the causative agent of Covid-19 — appeared 3 years ago, barely anyone anticipated it could cause long-Covid. Same coronavirus family, the same oversight.
Back then, about 40% of SARS survivors were found to have persistent fatigue two years later, of which 27% met the criteria for chronic fatigue syndrome. About 13% of SARS survivors still had impaired lung function 15 years later.
Now, how long might long-Covid last?
Due to an overabundance of long-Covid studies in the literature, I will only select and discuss studies of sufficient quality, such as having adequate sample sizes and follow-up time and, crucially, little sampling bias. Briefly, I keyed in (long-covid OR post-covid-19 syndrome) AND recover* into PubMed and derived and screened 438 papers as of 2 April 2022.
I also won’t be discussing the prevalence of long-Covid here as I already did elsewhere: “Current Long-COVID…
