Most patients with COVID-19 experience a loss of taste and or smell. Only a quarter of patients had noted some improvement in a week’s time, but by 10 days most patients had recovered.Post-infection fatigue syndromeWhile again it may be too early to tell, in the case of the original...
The Post COVID Recovery Clinic at the University of Canberra Hospital has been opened to treat patients with coronavirus symptoms that are still affecting their daily lives more than 12 weeks after contracting the virus. Patients at the clinic receive care from rehabilitation specialists, physiotherapis...
Long COVID might be caused by the enduring presence of the virus in the body. Research suggests that viral fragments, possibly live, linger and lead to symptoms. Long COVID, affecting 5-10% of COVID-19 patients, might be caused by the enduring presence of the virus in the body. Researc...
Here I offer a summary of what is known today about recovering from COVID-19—and where there are important gaps in our knowledge. Much of this information, which has been gleaned from studies that began after the 2003 SARS outbreak, is important for those recovering and their family and f...
A new preliminary study contradicts the perception that lingering COVID-19 symptoms mostly affect middle-aged adults, with evidence that a majority of young adults also experience chest pain, breathing difficulty, headaches, diarrhea, loss of smell or taste and other complications for weeks after dia...
that 30-50% of patients hospitalised with covid-19 have significant symptoms six to eight weeks after they have been discharged. That number rises further for patients who were admitted to an ICU. But even those who escaped with a mild illness, like Laura, are at risk. More than 10% of...
Severity of the illness is one predictor of lasting problems. Ian Hall, the director of the Biomedical Research Centre at the University of Nottingham, reckons that 30-50% of patients hospitalised withcovid-19have significant symptoms six to eight weeks after they have been discharged. That numb...
China initially withheld numbers of asymptomatic cases -- people who test positive but show no symptoms of COVID-19, the pneumonia-like illness caused by the virus. It said on Thursday that the country now has over a thousand such patients under medical observation -- with 674 of those in ...
Severity of the illness is one predictor of lasting problems. Ian Hall, the director of the Biomedical Research Centre at the University of Nottingham, reckons that 30-50% of patients hospitalised with covid-19 have significant symptoms six to eight weeks after they have been discharged. That ...
"My health was collapsing in days," Ramos said. His two oldest children came down with the disease, too, but showed only mild symptoms. They recovered quickly at home. Now, Galarza is the breadwinner in the family, working for a local nonprofit and trying to build her home-based baking...