As many as one-third of adult coronavirus patients may have long-term symptoms after recovery, a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suggests.
Researchers looked at a random sample of residents in Long Beach, California, who had tested positive for COVID-19.
They found 35 percent of patients reported fatigue, headache, cough or loss of taste and smell at least two months after learning they were infected.
Middle-aged adults, females and African-Americans were the most likely to report long-lasting symptoms of the virus.
A new CDC report found that than one-third of patients, or 35%, in Long Beach, California, reported symptoms of COVID-19 at least two months after initially contracting the virus. Pictured: A Covid patient in the ICU at a Boise, Idaho hospital, August 2021
Long Covid appears in patients who have recovered from the virus and continue exhibiting symptoms for weeks, or potentially months or years, after clearing the infection.
There are a wide-array of symptoms that can appear, including continued loss of taste and smell, long-term fatigue and long-term sensory issues.
The causes of the condition remain unknown and several studies are being conducted to examine long-term effects.
Some theories of what causes long Covid include patients having persistently low levels of the virus or damage that COVID-19 causes to nerve pathways.
For the report, published on Thursday, officials at the Long Beach Department of Health interviewed a random sample of 366 residents aged 18 or older.
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