Long COVID isn't uncommon. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention defines long COVID as a chronic condition that occurs after an infection and lasts for at least three months. The Mayo ...
Long COVID affects an estimated 65 million people worldwide and can damage the brain, heart, blood vessels, and immune system ...
After any coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) illness, no matter how serious, some people report that symptoms stay for months. This lingering illness has often been called long COVID or post-COVID-19 ...
About 5% of U.S. adults are estimated to be living with long COVID-19, and one of them is UC San Francisco epidemiologist and long COVID researcher Alison Cohen, PhD, MPH. Cohen, who was involved in ...
The COVID-19 pandemic is officially over, but the Centers for Disease Control estimates 20 million Americans are still living ...
Five years ago, COVID was all we could think about. Today, we’d rather forget about lockdowns, testing queues and social distancing. But the virus that sparked the pandemic, SARS-CoV-2, is still ...
Modern medicine has failed millions of patients suffering from a mysterious and debilitating condition. We first learned about this problem many decades ago when we interviewed Dr. Paul Cheney on our ...
This is it today.” But she does the work because she knows that patients with long COVID desperately need advocacy. A recent ...
Annie Antar, MD, PhD, discusses how patients with HIV can have different and longer-lasting symptoms of COVID-19. Annie Antar, MD, PhD, Johns Hopkins Medicine, discussed how those diagnosed with HIV ...