Even for people who were never sick enough to be hospitalised, the aftermath can be long and gruelling, with a complex and lasting mix of symptoms. One of the pressing issues that patients and experts are now weighing is what official medical term should be adopted to describe the collection of post-COVID symptoms. “Those individuals had their acute illness several months ago, and they’ve been suffering pretty mightily since then,” Haag said. The acute phase of his illness involved some but not all of the classic disease symptoms. Clinics treating COVID survivors are seeing a striking number of people with brain fog and other thinking problems as well as psychological issues, doctors participating in the workshop said.

Source: bd News24 December 04, 2020 19:41 UTC