Almost 7% of adults and 1% of kids have struggled with long Covid, survey finds | CNN
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Estimates of the number of people in the US with lingering Covid-19 symptoms vary widely, but a new survey from the National Center for Health Statistics says the condition may have affected as many as 962,000 children and 17.9 million adults.

Estimates of the number of people in the US with lingering Covid-19 symptoms vary widely, but a new survey from the National Center for Health Statistics says the condition may have affected as many as 962,000 children and 17.9 million adults.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    4·
    2 years ago

    I don’t know for sure if I have long COVID, but it seems like I do. From what I remember, this didn’t start before I had COVID, but now that I’ve had it, I frequently wake up after being asleep for a short time, maybe half an hour, and cough my head off for about 10 minutes. Like really deep, loud coughs. Then I’m fine. Is that long COVID? I have no idea, but it seems like the timeline works out.

    • foggy@lemmy.world
      8·
      2 years ago

      I feel like we don’t ever fully get to know the myriad of ways new diseases fuck us up.

      • Balios@kbin.social
        3·
        2 years ago

        New? The messed up thing is we don’t even know all the ways “old” diseases fuck us up.

    • Hardeehar@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 years ago

      If you haven’t seen a medical provider about it, I suggest doing so. Sleep is important. This could be asthma, sleep apnea, GERD or a bunch of other things (long COVID among them). But if you can get a fix to it quickly, you’ll absolutely feel better.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 years ago

        I do have asthma, but this was never an issue before I had COVID. I have other, more pressing medical issues at the moment that I won’t go into because half of Lemmy has probably heard me talk about it by now.