Health
Sick for the long haul: One third of COVID-19 patients have symptoms for eight months – Sydney Morning Herald
One in three Australian COVID-19 patients still has symptoms eight months after being infected, and neither age nor a mild bout of the virus is protective, a world-first…
Anecdotally, some patients are still symptomatic a year on, Dr Darley said.
Derek Young, 55, still feels the brain fog of COVID-19 more than a year after he tested positive in mid-March 2020. The high fever, sweats, shivering and muscle aches had all passed within six weeks, but the incredible fatigue dragged on for eight months.
At first I was sleeping 22 of 24 hours a day, but for months I would have a good run of three or four days, then have to take a day off to just sleep, he said.
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