Coronavirus deaths exceed 410,000 in America, and the thousands who have Long COVID, or what Dr. Anthony Fauci, the chief medical advisor to the president and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, calls it “post-acute COVID 19 syndrome.” The symptoms are “very severe months after technical recovery from the disease”, MSNBC Host Rachel Maddow told him the other day. “They are still unable to work. People have very serious and long-term consequences.” “This is a real phenomenon,” added Fauci. “I personally am dealing with and helping a number of people who have a post-acute COVID 19 syndrome – they are virologically well. The virus is no longer identified in them, but they have a persistence of symptoms that can be debilitating.” Continue reading to learn more about symptoms to see if you have them – and to ensure your health and the health of others, don’t miss these Clear signs that you’ve had the coronavirus.
Fauci told Maddow that you can suffer from “extreme fatigue” and has been mentioning this for some time. “You don’t want to scare and alarm people, but they really should know that we don’t know what the long-term consequences are, even when it looks like a routine infection,” said Dr. Fauci Medscape in July. “We’d better be careful. Even after clearing the virus, there are post-viral symptoms. I know, because I follow a lot of people on the phone who call me and talk about their course. And it is extraordinary how many people have post-viral syndrome that is very similar to myalgia encephalomyelitis / chronic fatigue syndrome. They just don’t return to normal energy or a normal feeling of good health. “A characteristic symptom of EM / CFS is post-exertion malaise, a breakdown after exertion.
Another important symptom of long COVID – and myalgic encephalomyelitis / chronic fatigue syndrome – is muscle pain or myalgia. They can manifest anywhere – torso, back, legs – and in some cases, such as costochondritis, they can look like a heart attack (but they are not).
You can have “temperature deregulation,” says Fauci, and World Neurology, from the World Federation of Neurology, also mentions this. “Most of these patients were in excellent health before being infected with SARS-CoV-2,” they say. “They all had a myriad of symptoms during the acute phase; however, as the fever and respiratory symptoms improved, they developed persistent systemic symptoms, some of which are gradually improving, but not all are following this course.”
“Some of them even have situations with what they call brain fog,” said Dr. Fauci to Maddow, “in which it is very difficult for them to concentrate or to concentrate, it can be really very disturbing. We are doing a lot of it.”
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Tell your doctor if you experience any of these symptoms. Although doctors still don’t know how to cure it, they can help treat the symptoms. Dr. Fauci says the medical community is studying Long COVID intensively. “We are going to make a huge investment in research dollars to try to find out the full extent of this,” he told Maddow. “Any hint as to what the underlying mechanisms are, what we can do to treat them. We take this very seriously for the simple reason that even a small fraction and it seems to be more than just a small fraction of people have persistent symptoms – when you look at the 24, 25 million people in the United States who were infected, although not all of them showed any symptoms, but even those who show symptoms and globally, when you approach one hundred million people having been infected, it it can be something that really can be a problem. And that’s why we’re taking it very seriously. “As you should – so, to protect your life and the lives of others, do not visit any of these 35 places you’re most likely to reach COVID.