According to a large-scale study on the consequences of the COVVI-19 on the health of long-term people, published today Friday August 5, 2022 in a British weekly medical scientific journal, the “Lancet”, one in eight among people with COVVI-19, keeps, in the long term, one of the characteristic symptoms of the virus.
These symptoms include “an aged or anosmia (loss of taste or smell), hot or cold puffs, abdominal pain, respiratory or muscle pain and pain, tingling, embarrassment in the throat, heaviness of the arms or legs, as well as a general fatigue”, enumerates this study
Three to five months after the infection, in 12.7% of patients can be assigned these symptoms to COVID-19, according to the authors.
This study, carried out in the Netherlands, is, by its magnitude and its methodology, an important tool for better understanding the risk of “long covid”, that is to say the persistence of symptoms after a coronavirus infection.
