Women and older people were at higher risk of developing chronic fatigue.
COVID-19 patients are at least four times more likely to develop chronic fatigue than someone who has not had the virus, a new federal study published Wednesday suggests.
Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) looked at electronic health records from the University of Washington of more than 4,500 patients with confirmed COVID-19 between February 2020 and February 2021.
They were followed for a median of 11.4 months and their health data was compared with the data of more than 9,000 non-COVID-19 patients with similar characteristics.
Fatigue developed in 9% of the COVID patients, the team found. Among COVID-19 patients, the rate of new cases of fatigue was 10.2 per 100 person-years and the rate of new cases of chronic fatigue was 1.8 per 100 person-years.
You mean some people didn’t get COVID?
I’ve never had it
Me either…as far as I know. Haven’t had symptoms or tested positive yet, anyway.
For what it’s worth, I only had it for the first time last December. Hit me like a truck, though, still not fully recovered.
Hey I might have that. I’ve had some tests done but nothing was out of the ordinary according to those, I’ve just had this massive fatigue after getting sick earlier this year.
Note this study tracked people who got Covid early, likely pre-vaccine and definitely pre Delta and Omicron variants and sub variants. It confirms and quantifies what we already knew, that Covid can cause CFS. This will allow us in future to track how the vaccine and the seemingly less severe variants and sub variants differ from the unvaccinated hit from the initial strain, as well as seeing if Paxlovid or other treatments also reduce this risk. First and very important step for future science is establishing a baseline.
Women and older people were at higher risk
You can just hear the chances of any further development crash and burn… 🙄
i dont think cfs is permanent.
but yeah… doctors or getting disability is pretty hopeless.I have cfs not from Covid. It’s permanent. There are treatments that are at least good enough to allow me to work full time, but I’ll need medication for the rest of my life
ME/CFS is typically permanent and responds only slightly to moderately well to treatment.
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