Despite the decline in risk of developing long COVID, even a 3.5% risk is substantial. New and repeat COVID-19 infections translate into millions of new long COVID cases that add to an already staggering number of people suffering from this condition. ...
Many repeat infections are mild, but some studies suggest people who have been infected with COVID more than once are at a greater risk of severe disease or long COVID
52 Interstitial lung disease has been demonstrated in patients post COVID-19 infection and it is probable that with such prevalent infections in the UK, an increasing burden will be placed on Computed Tomography (CT) services for diagnosis and monitoring of this disease.53 Wells et al. ...
Long COVID (LC) occurs after at least 10% of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infections, yet its etiology remains poorly understood. We used ‘omic” assays and serology to deeply characterize the global and SARS-CoV-2-specific immunity in the blood of individuals...
Therefore, the number of long COVID cases is expected to remain high in the future. Reinfections apparently increase the likelihood of long COVID, but less so if they are mild or asymptomatic as in children and adolescents. Strategies to prevent SARS-CoV-2 reinfections are urgently needed, ...
suggesting "a significant amount of by stander activation" which might contribute to recurring anti-bacterial-resistant infections [148]. A study measuring 96 immune response-associated proteins showed that even 40 days post-COVID-19 viral infection high levels of biomarkers related to innate anti-in...
A new study that identified 475 patients with post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC), also known as long COVID, revealed that nearly 85% (403) of these patients had multiple COVID-19 infections over the course of a four-year period (March 2020 to Februar
viral infections, thus also referred to as post-viral fatigue syndrome (PVFS). The pathogenesis of all these conditions is unclear. To dissect the causes of muscle fatigue in PASC, it is useful to consider the pathogenesis of neuromuscular symptoms also during the acute phase of severe Covid-...
We included asymptomatic infections in the acute infection group (they could not have long COVID by definition) to avoid overestimating the prevalence of long COVID. The analysis was restricted to health care workers who were tested every 1 or 2 weeks with complete demographic data and a ...
BMC Infectious Diseases is called for submissions to our Collection on Long-term effects of COVID-19 infections. The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the severe ...