Health & Fitness
Long COVID Effects Are Similar To Other Lingering Illness Symptoms
The COVID-positive group experienced better improvements in their social well-being than the COVID-negative group, according to the study.
December 2, 2022
People suffering from long COVID-19 experience lingering negative effects similar to patients who are sick with other illnesses, according to just-released UCLA research.
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The findings are based on a comparison of people known to have been COVID infected to people with similar symptoms who tested negative for the respiratory disease. The researchers found that 40 percent of the COVID-positive and 54 percent of the COVID-negative group reported moderate to severe residual symptoms three months after enrolling in the study.
The study's 1,000 participants were 18 years of age or older. Overall, those who tested positive for COVID had self-reported physical and mental health symptoms three months after infection that were similar to those who became ill with other, non-COVID illnesses during the pandemic.
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