More than 300,000 Canadians have struggled with the long-term impacts of the virus. Researchers believe that with proper care, many will get better.
, she still feels blunted, unable to access her memory, multi-task or concentrate as she once did.
For many, long COVID is terrifying, made all the worse by how few aspects of it experts can explain. Answers to why and who it strikes are still out of reach. A long COVID diagnosis requires at least three months of illness. Researchers do not yet know to what extent Omicron produces long-term symptoms., a Facebook group for fellow long COVID sufferers, said there has been a “large influx of newcomers” to the group in the past two months.
“We’ve been saying, for the last two years, this will be the pandemic after the pandemic,” said Goulding of long COVID. “Our youngest long-hauler is only months old. A baby, who was hospitalized with an erratic heart-rate and diagnosed with long COVID. Everyone is at risk.” Many in the medical community find the frequency of long COVID so alarming, given that it is thought to affect 10 to 15 per cent of people who had COVID, they speak of it as a “But Mukherjee disagrees, saying that label “sensationalizes” long COVID. People experiencing symptoms long after a viral infection is not a phenomenon unique to COVID, she said. In the past, post-viral syndromes have arisen in people infected with other coronaviruses and even the flu.
“I wouldn’t say 100 per cent recover, but I would say a lot of people will improve over time, especially if they get treated and are doing the right thing,” she said. “But there is a smaller number of patients who continue to have symptoms past one year, and there are some that have symptoms as long as two years.”
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