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- A Mayo Clinic expert speculated that Long COVID symptoms might last for more than a year in some coronavirus patients.
- The doctor referenced a similar experience for patients infected with SARS who continued to experience symptoms of the illness after clearing the virus.
- Doctors still can’t explain what causes Long COVID, but an increasing number of coronavirus survivors experience ongoing symptoms for weeks to months after the initial infection.
Typically, people suffering from pre-existing conditions and the elderly risk severe COVID-19 complications. But there are exceptions, and there’s no guarantee that a younger patient will fare any better. For example, researchers have recently discovered that some people may be suffering from genetic conditions that impact interferon functions without knowing about it. The imbalance becomes evident once infected with COVID-19, at which point lives can be endangered.
Doctors are saving many more lives than in the early months of the pandemic, having devised new treatment protocols for severe cases. A variety of drugs can keep the immune response at bay as the virus clears, and more people will eventually walk out of the hospital than before. But clearing the virus from the system isn’t the same as being cured. An increasingly large number of people who survive the illness develop so-called Long COVID, a chronic version of the illness where a wide variety of symptoms can appear for a long time after the infection is gone from the body. Long haulers have gone through weeks and months of Long COVID, with a few of them having reported symptoms for nine months. Doctors have no idea how these annoying coronavirus symptoms can last, but we do have an informed guess on record, and it’s not entirely good news.
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