Long Covid, symptoms and how long it lasts: in the US it is national alert

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Long Covid: the ISS stresses the importance of a preventive diagnosis of Long Covid cases. In the US, there are an estimated 15 million patients

Once recovered from Covid-19, the ordeal may not be over. The Istituto Superiore di Sanità (Iss) raises the alarm on the so-called Long Covid, or a condition in which the symptoms of the Coronavirus are felt for a prolonged period of time even after the disappearance of the disease. “More than a year after the beginning of the Sars-CoV-2 pandemic – we read in the ISS report” Interim indications on the principles of Long-Covid management “- an important number of people affected by Covid-19 presents clinical manifestations that do not end in the first weeks of the acute symptomatic phase, but can be prolonged precluding a full return to the previous state of health “.