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New Delhi, July 25, 2020:
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Chronic COVID or POST COVID illness
COVID-19 can mean weeks’ long illness, even in young adults and those without chronic conditions who have mild disease and are treated in outpatient settings, according to survey results in today’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report from the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
In a multistate telephone survey of symptomatic adults who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, 35% had not returned to their usual state of wellness when they were interviewed 2 to 3 weeks after testing.
Delayed recovery (symptoms of fatigue, cough, and shortness of breath) was evident in nearly a quarter of 18- to 34-year-olds and a third of 35- to 49-year-olds who were not sick enough to require hospitalization.
This is post-Covid state
- On 9th-day virus is non-infectious
- Is post-Covid persistent inflammation or immunologic reactions
- Like arthritis in chikungunya
- Like postherpetic neuralgia
- Like post-viral syndrome, CFS etc.
- Is quite common and presents in India more with low-grade fever and obstruction in the throat. It can also present with SOB, exertional tachycardia, persistent loss of smell and taste and below knee pains.
Dr K Aggarwal
President CMAAO
With inputs from Dr Monica Vasudev
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