These scary symptoms are the best reasons to avoid getting COVID-19

[Chris Smith]

• A survey of more than 1,500 people experiencing Long Covid after being infected with the coronavirus revealed no less than 98 different symptoms.
• Some of them are more common, like fatigue, aches, and difficulty breathing.
• Other symptoms are rarer and more unexpected, including dry scalp, phantom smells, or drastic personality change.

Many people go through COVID-19 without ever knowing they were infected. These are the asymptomatic individuals who have no idea they might be carrying the virus. The vast majority of those who do get symptoms experience mild-to-moderate cases. Then there are those who go through severe, life-threatening cases.

Doctors have been saving more and more lives since the early months of the pandemic, but not all those who survive COVID-19 experience a complete recovery within 10 days after experiencing symptoms — or by the time they leave the hospital. Studies have shown that a large number of survivors, which might be in the millions, experience coronavirus symptoms even after their immune systems disposes of the virus. They are called “long haulers,” suffering from “Long COVID,” which is an unpredictable circumstance that’s still not fully understood. Long COVID patients will require additional care and extra weeks or months of recovery.

Patients suffering from Long COVID have described various symptoms that mimic the original infection, and doctors have started cataloging them. The most recent attempt to determine the severity of symptoms comes from a survey of patients that went through the longer version of the illness.

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