Long COVID can be debilitating and lasts for an average of 15 months, according to researchers at Northwestern Medicine's long COVID clinic.
While the short-term effects of COVID are now well known, the future for patients is still murky.A new study by doctors at Northwestern University is shedding some concerning light on how long those aftereffects may last.
"About 80% of the patients who come to the clinic have never been hospitalized for COVID-19 and they are mainly females in their 40s," said Dr. Igor Koralnik, one of the study's senior authors.Some COVID experts say it's vital the federal government direct more money towards studies on long COVID, which they worry are proceeding too slowly.
"I went from being a very active person to barely being able to stand for five minutes without getting so acutely dizzy, having zero standing tolerance," Caffee said."I say I'm 90 to 95% better, but there are still symptoms that linger and I don't feel like my old self," Caffee said. "I was hearing about patients who are fully practicing lawyers and now they can't even look at a license plate and remember it 5 seconds later," researcher Sareen Ali said.
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