'It’s good news, with caution,' says a doctor who took 18 months to recover from long COVID. Some remain symptomatic for more than a year.
A large new study involving thousands of “long haulers” suggests most symptoms of long COVID clear within a year, a finding its researchers say should help ease growing fears of long-lingering effects of a COVID infection.
“Although the long COVID phenomenon has been feared and discussed since the beginning of the pandemic, we observed that most health outcomes arising after a mild disease course remained for several months and returned to normal within the first year,” the researchers report in this week’s issue of the British Medical Journal.
“When we started this study there was a lot of uncertainty regarding the long-term effects of the pandemic and there was a fear that a large proportion of infected individuals will have long-lasting symptoms and emergence of new morbidities,” the study’s senior and lead authors, Dr. Maytal Bivas-Benita and Barak Mizrahi, of the the Ki Research Institute in Israel, wrote in an email to the National Post.
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A large new study involving thousands of “long haulers” suggests most symptoms of long COVID clear within a year, a finding its researchers say should help ease growing fears of long-lingering effects of a COVID infection.
“Although the long COVID phenomenon has been feared and discussed since the beginning of the pandemic, we observed that most health outcomes arising after a mild disease course remained for several months and returned to normal within the first year,” the researchers report in this week’s issue of the British Medical Journal.
“When we started this study there was a lot of uncertainty regarding the long-term effects of the pandemic and there was a fear that a large proportion of infected individuals will have long-lasting symptoms and emergence of new morbidities,” the study’s senior and lead authors, Dr. Maytal Bivas-Benita and Barak Mizrahi, of the the Ki Research Institute in Israel, wrote in an email to the National Post.
Good news: Most long COVID symptoms after mild infection clear within a year, study finds
'It’s good news, with caution,' says a doctor who took 18 months to recover from long COVID. Some remain symptomatic for more than a year
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