21. It is estimated that anywhere from 10% to 30% of patients
might experience long COVID after recovering—even if they
weren’t very sick in the first place.
Anyone can get long-haul COVID. irrespective of the
severity of disease,” Even the mildest cases can cause long
COVID.
25. While most people with COVID-19 recover and return to
normal health, typically, after 2 to 6 weeks.
Some people can have symptoms that last for weeks or even
months after recovery from acute illness though they are
not infectious to others during this time
26. Symptoms may be new onset following initial recovery from
an acute COVID-19 episode or persist from the initial illness.
Symptoms may also fluctuate or relapse over time.”
Even people who did not have any symptoms can experience
long COVID.
27. There are three types of long COVID
• Long COVID can be broken down into three categories, in
The first category “COVID-19 itself has direct cell damage
because of the virus and this can cause lingering symptoms.”
• This means that people with COVID-19 “do not recover
completely and have ongoing symptoms because of direct cell
damage from the virus.”
28. • The second category of long COVID is when a person’s
“symptoms are related to chronic hospitalization, “This is
when someone is in the hospital, ICU, bed bound for weeks.
• “There is inherent muscle weaknessn or cognitive brain
dysfunction. There is psychosocial stress causing post-
traumatic stress disorder-like syndrome, which we call post-
ICU care syndrome”.
29. • In the third category, are those cases in which symptoms
appear after recovery.
• “if a patient had no symptoms before and now has new
symptoms, you don’t want to label it as long COVID or
COVID long haulers before you rule out other conditions.”
50. The term ‘Long-COVID-19ʹ is given to the signs and symptoms
that continue or develop after the ‘acute COVID-19ʹ phase
and include both ‘ongoing symptomatic COVID-19ʹ and ‘post
COVID-19 syndrome’.
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54. Long COVID usually presents with clusters of symptoms,
often overlapping, which can fluctuate and change over
time and can affect any system of the body’’.
There is no minimal number of symptoms required for the
diagnosis.
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59. Why Does it Occur?
• Exact cause remains unknown and
an active area of research
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Di Sante. medRxiv pre-print 2021.
64. If I have post COVID-19 condition, can I give it
to others?
• No, post COVID-19 condition cannot be passed to others,
Post COVID-19 condition is a long-term condition following
infection with the virus that causes COVID-19.
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"We have no treatments for long-COVID, only treatment
of some of the symptoms (which may or may not prove to
be effective- supportive care).
The key need is for studies that show the biological basis
of the symptoms, since then treatments can be targeted at
the underlying mechanism.".
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79. Does getting vaccinated prevent post COVID-19
condition?
• The vaccines we use today are aimed at preventing severe
disease and death from COVID-19. However, some people
may still get infected with COVID-19 even after they are
vaccinated.
80. • A vaccine’s ability to prevent post COVID-19 condition
depends on its ability to prevent COVID-19 in the first
place.
• "The best way to prevent getting long-haul COVID is to
not get COVID-19.
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82. A study by researchers at King’s College London,
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