New research: Most long-term Covid-19 symptoms are gone within a year, after a mild infection

Most symptoms that appear after a mild Covid-19 infection persist for several months, but are gone after a year and the patient’s condition is now back to normal, according to a new major Israeli scientific study.

Vaccinated people in particular have a lower risk of long-term breathing difficulties – the most common problem after a mild infection – compared to the unvaccinated.

As long is considered the Covid-19when symptoms last for more than four weeks after the initial infection.

The new findings show that while long-term Covid-19 is a dreaded reality, the vast majority of mild Covid-19 patients do not suffer from severe long-term symptoms.

The researchers, led by Dr Maital Bivas-Benita of the CF Research Institute, who made the relevant publication in the British medical journal BMJ (British Medical Journal), analyzed medical data for almost two million people. People who had been admitted to hospitals due to more severe Covid-19 were excluded.

Compared to those who were not infected with coronavirus, those with mild Covid-19 infection were on average 4.5 times more likely to experience loss of smell and/or taste. Over a period of one year after the initial infection, the most common persistent symptoms were a feeling of physical weakness and breathing difficulties. The differences between the two sexes were small, while children had a lower probability of persistent symptoms compared to adults.

“Our study shows that patients with mild Covid-19 are at risk for a small number of symptoms afterwards, but most of them are gone within a year of initial diagnosis. “Importantly, the risk of persistent dyspnea is reduced in vaccinated compared to unvaccinated,” the researchers stressed.

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