Yet even as we enter the last days of this pandemic, there remains ample fear of “long COVID”; symptoms of the disease that linger long after the usual two-week recovery period has ended. Try refreshing your browser, or ‘Long COVID’ is real, but not the risk you might think Back to video Long-term effects from COVID-19 are definitely real and have been experienced firsthand by many in the medical profession. Advertisement Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Nevertheless, some of the most reliable data on “long COVID” comes from the “COVID Symptom Study,” a U.K. program that recruited thousands of COVID-19 patients to log their long-term symptoms using a smartphone app. Reports of long COVID are also at risk of drawing in any number of chronic conditions unrelated to COVID-19.

Source: National Post April 12, 2021 10:52 UTC