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Living with long COVID

Deborah Duncan
- 02 Sep 2021 - 
- Vol. 3, Iss: 9, pp 362-368
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This article looks at the literature about long COVID and suggests there is a clear pathway for treatment in primary care and that all physicians should be equipped to recognise long-COVID and provide supportive management.
Abstract
One in five people have symptoms that persist after 5 weeks, and one in ten have symptoms for 12 weeks or longer after an acute COVID-19 infection (Office for National Statistics [ONS], 2020). NICE...

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TL;DR: It is suggested that all physicians should be equipped to recognise and appreciate the symptom burden and provide supportive management of individuals with symptoms of 'long COVID', and that this condition may be related to a virus- or immune-mediated disruption of the autonomic nervous system resulting in orthostatic intolerance syndromes.