Long COVID
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People of color bearing brunt of long COVID, doctors say
“We are getting a very skewed population of Caucasian wealthy people who are coming to our clinic.”
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Prior psychological distress tied to ‘long-COVID’ conditions
“Our findings suggest the need to consider psychological health in addition to physical health as risk factors of long COVID-19.”
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How do you live with COVID? One doctor’s personal experience
Early in 2020, Anne Peters, MD, caught COVID-19. The author of Medscape’s “Peters on Diabetes” column was sick in March 2020 before state-mandated...
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Long COVID mimics other postviral conditions
“We think they are frighteningly similar, if not identical.”
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Is it COVID or long COVID? Your organs may know
COVID-19 can damage multiple organs in the body.
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COVID-19 may trigger irritable bowel syndrome
Estimates of the prevalence of gastrointestinal symptoms with COVID-19 have ranged as high as 60%.
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Long COVID case study: persistent hormone deficiencies
This is the first published case of secondary adrenal insufficiency after recovery from COVID-19.
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Diagnosing children with long COVID can be tricky: Experts
Spencer Siedlecki’s journey to better health was difficult; his regular pediatrician told the family at first that there were no treatments to...
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Sexual dysfunction, hair loss linked with long COVID
The symptoms, among others, join a list of better-known symptoms linked to long COVID.
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Long COVID’s grip will likely tighten as infections continue
“If we conservatively assume 100 million working-age adults have been infected, that implies 10 to 33 million may have long COVID.”