One in thirteen adults in the United States continued to have symptoms of the disease caused by the new coronavirus for 3 months or more after becoming ill.
Nearly one in five American adults who have had COVID-19 infection in the past has symptoms of so-called “long-term COVID,” according to data collected in the first two weeks of June, health officials said Wednesday.
One in thirteen adults in the United States continued to have symptoms of the disease caused by the new coronavirus for 3 months or more after becoming ill.
The data was collected from June 1 to 13 by the US Census Bureau and analyzed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the US Federal Public Health Administration.
Symptoms of so-called prolonged COVID are unexplained fatigue, tachycardia, difficulty breathing, cognitive problems, chronic pain, sensory disturbances, muscle weakness. They can be extremely intense and last from weeks to months after recovery from the infection.
When analyzing CDCs, younger adults are more likely to have persistent symptoms than older ones.
Women are also more likely to have so-called “long COVID” than men, according to the study. 9.4% of women reported having persistent symptoms, compared to 5.5% of men.
According to the analysis, almost 9% of people of Latin American descent had “long COVID”, a higher rate than whites and blacks, almost twice as many as adults of Asian descent. There were also large differences across states, with Kentucky and Alabama having the highest rates of adults with “long COVIDs”, while Hawaii, Maryland and Virginia had the lowest.
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