There was only a single story about what COVID-19 was: a potentially deadly respiratory disease [1]. People with mild or moderate COVID-19 who developed persistent symptoms were invisible in the eyes of the health system and their immediate surroundings. They gathered through social media in ...
It includes seven items based on seven core symptoms, and the participants were asked how often they were bothered by each symptom during the last two weeks (Spitzer et al., 2006). Each item was rated on a 4-point Likert scale ranging from 0 “not at all” to 3 “nearly every day”...
China’s hotel industry entered the emergency phase in January 23, 2020, which lasted until the mid-March 2020. On January 23, 2020, Wuhan city was locked down, and 30 provinces and regions across the country launched public health emergency response on the next day. The Chinese government ...
693,375 infected individuals who did not demonstrate any long-haul signs preceding their COVID-19 diagnosis were analyzed [15]. The data revealed that 9.4% pursued treatment once it was established that they had long-haul symptoms, the most common symptom being difficulty with breathing [15]. ...
Turner talked to Xinhua after leaving a Walmart north of the city where only a handful of customers had adopted the new guidelines, underscoring many American's impatience with restrictions surrounding the global pandemic that lasted over two years and had claimed 1.1 million U.S. lives as of ...
Self-reporting1,2,3,4and population studies5,6,7,8of post-COVID-19 illness trajectory have found that residual symptoms, such as fatigue, breathlessness and exercise intolerance, are common, potentially leading to increased demands on healthcare services. At the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic...
In Japan, even with the prolonged spread of COVID-19, basic measures such as ensuring social distancing and hand sterilization remained the main countermeasures, and the only addition was vaccination. Additionally, in 2020 and 2021, Japanese infection and mortality rates were among the lowest in ...
A few other reports have merely suggested a duration-criteria for long COVID, as persistence of symptoms beyond 3 weeks of the disease onset. The above-mentioned article is the only one that proposed a full-spectrum diagnostic-criteria. This lack of well-defined criteria to define Long COVID...
These methods can give results in as short as 10 min, but detection limit for the majority of them is not established and antibody testing is meaningful only at least 2 weeks after the onset of symptoms. Therefore, antibody testing cannot be used to diagnose a current infection. Another ...
Therefore, it was impossible to identify the source of heterogeneity and it was not possible to assess how long each symptom lasted. Seven of the studies did not describe the system used to record the symptoms in detail, and most were self-reported retrospectively. A high score was given to...