Many People with Long COVID Experienced Mild Infection: Study

Global analysis showed that 90 percent of long COVID patients aren’t in a hospital. COVID-19.

A commentary was published in January 2023. Study authors concluded This would suggest that most people with COVID for long Mild infection.

The data comes A global study The study included 54 studies and 2 medical databases from 10 countries. Long COVID was defined by the persistent fatigue, cognitive, and respiratory symptoms that lasts more than three months after COVID. The authors found that 89.7 per cent (130 million) long-COVID cases were in patients who weren’t hospitalized for COVID-19.

Reviewing the study revealed that mild cases account for the majority of long-COVID cases. This could indicate that mild COVID may be the reason people are at greater risk of developing long COVID.

However, the report’s corresponding author, Dr. Theo Vos from the University of Washington, who holds a doctorate in epidemiology and health economics, expressed in an email to The Epoch Times that the more likely explanation is that since most people experience mild symptoms with COVID-19, then if some of these patients were to become long-haulers, they would easily make up the majority of overall long-COVID cases.

Similar findings were supported by studies in the past that monitored severity of COVID-19-related symptoms. In February 2020, a study that followed infections in China found that mild and asymptomatic disease outperformed the norm. 80 percent of all COVID-19 case are in this category.

“The sheer [greater] number of non-hospitalized infections … means that the vast majority of long-COVID cases arise in people with milder acute infection,” Vos wrote the email.

Predicting Long COVID Development

As with much of the research before it, the global study supports the hypothesis of a severe COVID-19 case increasing the chance of developing COVID long term.

Based on the analysis of the data, the authors concluded that patients who had to receive critical care or hospitalization for COVID-19 suffered more long-term COVID symptoms.

However, the majority of people who get COVID-19 do not experience any severe symptoms. Therefore, doctors may not be able to see any patterns in patients who have long COVID.

Furthermore, the severity and duration of the first COVID-19 infection might not be predictive of the severity of long-term COVID.

The United Memorial Medical Center in Houston, Texas’ chief of critical and COVID-19 care, Dr. Joseph Varon, told The Epoch Times that he saw long-COVID patients suffering from varying degrees of their initial COVID-19 infection.

After a mild COVID-19 episode, one of his patients experienced severe symptoms.

“That’s the primary concern that I have, because a lot of people think that you [need to] have severe disease to have a more [severe case of] long COVID,” Varon explained.

Many studies have shown that people who suffer from underlying conditions such as diabetes, such as heart disease, may be more likely to develop them. Diabetes And obesityPatients with long-term COVID are more likely to have severe symptoms. However, doctors have seen patients from all walks of life.

Pierre Kory, critical care pulmonary specialist said on ahref=”https://www.theepochtimes.com/why-some-doctors-completely-dismiss-long-covid_4981820.html”>EpochTV’s “Frontline Health” He actually sees many patients who are young and healthy and are aiming to become professional athletes. However, they are now severely handicapped by long COVID.

Research has shown that exercise may accelerate or worsen long-term COVID progression. A survey Over 477 long-COVID sufferers in the UK reported that approximately 75 percent of them experienced worsening symptoms after exercising.

Kory stated that there are two types of long-COVID sufferers. This first group includes those who go directly from acute to long-COVID. They are a minority of long-COVID sufferers. The majority of long-COVID suffers experience a brief recovery period for several weeks or months before relapsing into long COVID.

Doctors Kory and Varon recommend that patients receive early treatment drugs to prevent the virus from reproducing and causing more symptoms and damage.

Varon and Kory are part of the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance, a group that includes critical care experts. They developed their own early treatment protocols To help people recover from COVID-19 infections.

Varon stated that long-COVID patients at his clinic were not receiving adequate treatment. He observed that if he gave ivermectin to his patients, very few would go on to develop long COVID.