COVID-POST COVID CONDITION

SUMMARY

1. Post-COVID conditions are a wide range of new, returning, or ongoing symptoms patients can experience ≥ 4 weeks after first being infected with COVID-19. AKA long COVID, long-haul COVID, post-acute COVID-19, long-term effects of COVID, or chronic COVID.

2. Wide time variability of symptoms with some symptoms resolving quicker than others. Fatigue, dyspnoea, chest tightness, cognitive & psychological effects may last months.

SYMPTOMS
3. Common symptoms: fatigue (13-87%), dyspnoea (10-71%), chest pain (12-44%), cough (17-34%).

4. Psychological symptoms: depression, anxiety, PTSD.

5. Cognitive symptoms: poor memory, attention.

6. Uncommon: anosmia, arthralgia, myalgia, headache, rhinitis, poor appetite, dizziness, insomnia, alopecia, sweating, diarrhoea.

Reference(s)

Post-COVID Conditions, 2022. [online] Available at: <https: 2019-ncov="" coronavirus="" index.html="" long-term-effects="" www.cdc.gov=""> [Accessed 9 April 2022]."</https:>
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