Patients with mild COVID-19 will have symptoms of "long-term COVID-19"

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Science and Technology Daily, Beijing, June 24 (Reporter Zhang Mengran) A research analysis of patients with new coronary pneumonia published by the British "Nature Medicine" on the 24th found for the first time that more than half of young and middle-aged (16-30 years old) patients with mild illness who were isolated at home Six months after the initial infection, symptoms of long-lasting dyspnea, loss of taste and smell, fatigue or inattention, and memory loss appeared

Long-term complications after recovery from new coronary pneumonia are common in severely ill hospitalized patients, but the burden of this "long COVID" (long COVID) on mild to moderate patients has not been fully understood

At present, the reason for the emergence of the “long-term new crown” has not been clearly explained, but a study published this month believes that the inflammatory response caused by the new crown virus infection caused the reactivation of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), which may be a “long-term new crown”.

In order to assess the long-term symptoms of patients with mild new coronary disease, the research team of the University of Bergen in Norway followed up 312 patients, who accounted for 82% of the total cases of the first wave of the epidemic in Norway

Researchers worry that some young people who have not been hospitalized will continue to experience potentially severe symptoms for half a year after infection, and pointed out that the incidence of persistent fatigue in patients with new coronary pneumonia is very high, which seems to be higher than other common infections, such as flu, after recovery Observed higher

Considering that millions of young people have been infected in this unfinished epidemic, researchers believe that it is necessary to carry out comprehensive infection prevention and control, universal vaccination, and further study the symptom spectrum of mild infections