Older patients, women and those with variety of early symptoms most at risk of ‘long Covid,’ paper suggests – KKOH

London (CNN)Older people, women and those with a wide range of symptoms in the first week of their illness appear to be most likely to develop “long Covid,” according to a preprint paper posted online by researchers at King’s College London on Wednesday.
The paper defines “long Covid” as having symptoms persist for more than four weeks, while a short duration of Covid was defined as less than 10 days, without a subsequent relapse.
About 1 in 20 people with Covid-19, or 4.5%, are likely to experience…

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