Long COVID: Time and medical support will help patients to recover properly, say doctors
The Hindu
They say older people and those who had five or more symptoms in the first week of being affected with the pandemic are more prone to develop long COVID.
With the medical community now having had the time to map long COVID, doctors confirm that they are seeing patients whose symptoms have persisted for more than 12 months. They say that older people, and those who had five or more symptoms in the first week of becoming ill with COVID-19 are more prone to develop long COVID.
Long COVID symptoms gradually improve over a period of time, but can last for more than 12 months.
“It is also found that long COVID was higher among people who are overweight or obese, who smoke, live in deprived areas or had severe COVID illness and needed to be admitted to hospital,” says Manoj Goel, director, Pulmonology, Fortis Memorial Research Institute.