This One Thing Predicts Whether Or Not You Ll Have Long Term Covid

For the study, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, researchers looked at data from 4,182 people who tested positive for the virus who had been logging their symptoms in the COVID Symptom Study app. Through their analysis, the King’s College London team was able to determine that patients who experienced more than five symptoms during the first week of illness were most likely to experience long-lasting symptoms—specifically symptoms that lasted more than 28 days. “Having more than five different symptoms in the first week was one of the key risk factors,” Claire Steves, PhD, from King’s College, told BBC News. Read on to discover the five symptoms experienced in the first week of illness that are most predictive of long-term COVID, according to the study’s findings. And for more up-to-date coronavirus guidance, The CDC Now Says You Can Catch COVID From Someone in Exactly This Long. And for more on where COVID is headed, find out which 10 States Are on the Verge of COVID Surges.ae0fcc31ae342fd3a1346ebb1f342fcb