Most previous studies of long-term symptoms have tended to involve people who were sick enough from their initial infection to be hospitalized. One of the largest found that more than three-quarters of about 1,700 hospitalized patients in Wuhan, China, had at least one symptom six months later. In the new study, about 59 percent of the patients with long-term symptoms were women, and about half of the patients were Hispanic and 31 percent were white. Dr. Lambert said it was likely that the medical records used in the study reflected only a percentage of people who had asymptomatic Covid infections and experienced Covid aftereffects. “So there’s a potential for a wide range of long-haul symptoms that they’re not going to associate with Covid.”

Source: New York Times March 08, 2021 23:48 UTC