Patients who don’t fully recover or who feel even worse weeks or months after catching the virus have reached a total of 5.5 million in the United States. The implications of wider chronic illnesses resulting from COVID-19 brings worry and a bigger problem.
The National Institutes of Health has committed over 1 billion dollars to research ways to prevent and treat long COVID. There is a lot of energy and effort for doctors and researchers characterizing long COVID in order to better understand and help people who are suffering from these long-term symptoms.
As the pandemic goes on and begins to wane, doctors are foreshadowing a large number of survivors and will need to turn the focus on these peoples’ quality of life. Functional status and the return of work for many is what is wanted after this pandemic and its showing that it is going to take enormous effort.