covid: ‘One in 8 patients seen to have long covid symptoms’, says study Asia Post


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According to the study, of adults who have had Covid-19, 21.4% experienced at least one new or severely increased symptom three to five months post-infection compared to before infection. This was against 8.7% of uninfected people in the same time period, suggesting that one in eight Covid-19 patients (12.7%) in general population experience long-term symptoms due to Covid-19. The study also looked at an individual’s symptoms both before and after the Covid infection and found some core symptoms of long Covid including chest pain, difficulties in breathing, pain when breathing, painful muscles, loss of taste and smell, tingling extremities, lump...