A global systematic analysis of the occurrence, severity, and recovery pattern of long COVID in 2020 and 2021.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

While much of the attention on the COVID-19 pandemic was directed at the daily counts of cases and those with serious disease overwhelming health services, increasingly, reports have appeared of people who experience debilitating symptoms after the initial infection. This is popularly known as long COVID.

Objective

To estimate by country and territory of the number of patients affected by long COVID in 2020 and 2021, the severity of their symptoms and expected pattern of recovery.

Design

We jointly analyzed ten ongoing cohort studies in ten countries for the occurrence of three major symptom clusters of long COVID among representative COVID cases. The defining symptoms of the three clusters (fatigue, cognitive problems, and shortness of breath) are explicit

SUBMITTER: Hanson SW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9164454 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature