Scientists at the University of Geneva in Switzerland have described the longest symptoms of COVID-19 that persist in people with coronavirus for several months. This is reported in an article published in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine.
The study involved 669 patients, whose condition was assessed 30-45 days after diagnosis. The average age of the volunteers was 42.8 years. At the same time, 60 percent of patients were women, 24.6 percent were medical workers. 68.8 percent of people in this group had no major risk factors for complications.
Among hospitalized patients, 55 percent were men. 62.5 percent of study participants in this category were at risk.
The first manifestations of the disease were fatigue, shortness of breath and loss of taste or smell. Moreover, in a third of patients, the main symptoms persisted after at least 30 days after the diagnosis was made. These results are consistent with a previous study of 274 patients who reported long-term persistence of symptoms between 14 and 21 days after onset.