Long COVID-19 Symptoms
Some of the Long Covid-19 symptoms have been common for a long time even before the Pandemic.
To give just a few examples of the patient numbers reported on Google in early 2022:
- Joint Pain: 350 million (globally)
- Depression and Anxiety: 280 million people (globally)
- Shortness of Breath: 300 million people live with asthma (globally)
- Hair Loss: 147 million (globally)
- Headaches: Half to three-quarters of adults aged 18–65 years in the world have had headache in the last year and, among those individuals, 30% or more have reported migraine. Headache on 15 or more days every month affects 1.7–4% of the world’s adult population. Despite regional variations, headache disorders are a worldwide problem, affecting people of all ages, races, income levels and geographical areas.
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/headache-disorders - Fatigue: 836,000 to 2.5 million (United States)
- Chest Pain or Tightness: 10 million (United States)
- Difficulty Sleeping: 50 million to 70 million (United States)
- Heart Palpitations: 18 million (United States)
- Stomach Problems: 59 million to 89 million (United States)
- Cold-and-Flu-Like Symptoms: 9 million to 41 million (United States from 2010-2020)
As of early 2022, eighty percent of the world’s adults aged 65 and over have at least one chronic disease.
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