What Is Long COVID? Understanding the Symptoms and Causes
Schedule an appointment with our doctors in New York. Call 877-465-7360 for more information. Long COVID refers to prolonged symptoms of the COVID-19 virus persisting more than a few weeks after transmission. As of this writing, long COVID treatment strategies remain in their infancy. However, healthcare professionals can help alleviate some of the most common […]
Long COVID Hitting Some States, Minorities, Women Harder
More than 3 years into the COVID-19 pandemic, lasting symptoms are becoming quite common, with residents of certain states, women, Hispanic people, and transgender people more at risk, a new report shows. More than one in four adults sickened by the virus go on to have long COVID, according to a new report from the U.S. Census […]
Functional Neurological Disorder Emerges After COVID Infection, Vaccines
Patients with the functional neurologic disorder (FND) after SARS-CoV-2 infection had different symptoms than people with FND after COVID vaccines, retrospective data showed. Patients with post-COVID FND tended to be older, had more insidious onset, and had higher disability, according to Araceli Alonso-Canovas, MD, PhD, of Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal in Madrid, and co-authors. […]
Study Says Long COVID May Cause Face Blindness
COVID-19 is known to cause some people to lose taste and smell, and to instill “brain fog,” as well. Now, new research published in Cortex, links it to face blindness – or prosopagnosia — the inability to recognize faces. “Self-report survey data from 54 respondents with long COVID showed that a majority reported reductions in visual recognition […]
Long COVID Now Looks like a Neurological Condition, Helping Doctors to Focus Treatments
Tara Ghormley has always been an overachiever. She finished at the top of her class in high school, graduated summa cum laude from college and earned top honors in veterinary school. She went on to complete a rigorous training program and build a successful career as a veterinary internal medicine specialist. But in March 2020 […]
Long COVID Now Looks like a Neurological Disease, Helping Doctors to Focus Treatments
The most common, persistent and disabling symptoms of long COVID are neurological. Some are easily recognized as brain- or nerve-related: many people experience cognitive dysfunction in the form of difficulty with memory, attention, sleep and mood. Others may seem rooted more in the body than the brain, such as pain and postexertional malaise (PEM), a kind […]
COVID-19 and POTS: Is There a Link?
Although many people recover quickly from COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, others who recover may continue to experience symptoms for months. Researchers are still determining the cause of these extended symptoms, but some COVID-19 “long-haulers” may actually be dealing with a known condition, called postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome. This condition, also called POTS, […]
Autopsies Show COVID-19 in the Brain
Early this year, leading researchers discussed what we knew — and didn’t know — about COVID-19 and the brainopens in a new tab or window. Since then, new findings have emerged about SARS-CoV-2 and the nervous system, including the results of an autopsy study that showed the presence of the virus throughout the body and brain. […]
More Than 50 Long‑term Effects of Covid‑19: A Systematic Review and Meta‑analysis
COVID-19 can involve persistence, sequelae, and other medical complications that last weeks to months after initial recovery. This systematic review and meta-analysis aim to identify studies assessing the long-term effects of COVID-19. LitCOVID and Embase were searched to identify articles with original data published before the 1st of January 2021, with a minimum of 100 […]
What Are Post-COVID Conditions (Long COVID)?
COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) is an illness caused by a virus. Many people get better within a few days or weeks after being infected with the virus. But others have post-COVID conditions. They may: Have symptoms that linger for weeks, months, or even years Seem to recover from COVID-19 but then see their symptoms return Develop […]
