The National Institutes of Health Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are funding studies to see the symptoms and long-term effects that COVID-19 is having on patients. Some studies show symptoms persist up to 50% of the cases that they have witnessed and out of that percentage only 2.5% of people have symptoms that persist far past 12 weeks. Now there are more than 30 million people that contracted COVID-19 and the perspective of these findings show that three-quarters of a million people are potentially dealing with long-haul symptoms.
One thing is for sure, treatment is individualized. Depending on the patient treatments vary from respiratory, fatigue and managing mental health. For many people overcoming COVID-19 will be a prolonged recovery.