10/12/2022

Study Raises Alarm About Impacts of Long COVID

Doctors say, 'we are in trouble'

A new long-covid study based on the experiences of nearly 100,000 participants provides powerful evidence that many people do not fully recover months after being infected with the coronavirus.

The Scottish study found that between six and 18 months after infection, 1 in 20 people had not recovered and 42 percent reported partial recovery. There were some reassuring aspects to the results: People with asymptomatic infections are unlikely to suffer long-term effects, and vaccination appears to offer some protection from long covid.

"It's one more well-conducted, population-level study showing that we should be extremely concerned about the current numbers of acute infections," said David Putrino, director of rehabilitation innovation for the Mount Sinai Health System in New York. "We are in trouble."

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