Updating Long COVID: Mechanisms, Risk Factors, and Treatment

📖 The Scoop

The SARS-CoV-2 virus has led to the worldwide outbreak of the twentieth century. Current knowledge on SARS-CoV-2 acute infection has dramatically increased. Three years after the main outbreak, the presence of long-lasting symptoms after the acute infection called long COVID or post-COVID-19 syndrome, affects millions of individuals worldwide. Increasing literature supports the presence of more than 100 potential symptoms after the acute phase of infection such as:

· extreme fatigue, dizziness, and insomnia

· depression and anxiety, memory and concentration impairments

· loss of smell or taste, tinnitus, and earaches

· chest pain, heart palpitations, tightness, muscle aches.

However, several gaps still are present in the identification, timeframe, mechanisms, and treatment strategies for the management of long-COVID.

Genre: Science / General (fancy, right?)