Over 200 symptoms connected to extended COVID

The condition can cause more than 200 symptoms, and a positive COVID-19 test is not required to make a long COVID diagnosis, according to a new report released today by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The report also discusses the impact of long-term COVID-19 on daily function and symptoms. 

The results, which are intended to serve as guidelines for the Social Security Administration (SSA), were released a week before the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are scheduled to provide a new, uniform definition of long COVID that will help US governmental organizations treat the condition more efficiently in the future. 

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Being hospitalized raises the danger. 
5.3% of Americans today have long-term COVID, with a sizable fraction of those affected being disabled, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.


More than 200 symptoms that impact every organ system are formally identified as potential indicators of extended COVID in today's report. Long-term COVID is twice as common in women as in men, but signs of the illness may be present in people who have never been diagnosed or even tested positive for COVID-19. 

The paper notes that although individuals with moderate or even asymptomatic instances of acute COVID can develop long-term COVID, those who had to be hospitalized for their infection had a two- to three-times higher risk of long-term COVID than those who did not. 

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