The condition may be common, but issues like fever, shortness of breath, and fatigue can also be signs of other illnesses.
In other words, long Covid symptoms are meaningfully common in people who have never contracted Covid—so even those who have had the illness might be experiencing persistent symptoms for unrelated reasons, says Shamil Haroon, associate clinical professor of public health at the University of Birmingham and the21 percent of recent Covid patients
These high-level statistics are borne out by the experiences of long Covid specialists. By the time someone makes it to their clinics, they’ve usually already been through testing elsewhere—typically with their primary care provider—and the most obvious alternatives have been considered and rejected. And yet many patients leave these clinics with a diagnosis they did not expect.
That’s not to say it’s impossible. Doctors at specialty clinics have seen enough long Covid patients that they can identify some characteristic patterns. Michael Brode, medical director of UT Health Austin’s Post-Covid-19 Program, says that almost all of the long Covid patients he has seen start developing their symptoms within six weeks of their infection; if there’s a longer delay, he suspects something else.
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