প্রকাশ: 23/06/2022
Nearly 1 in 5
American adults who reported having Covid-19 in the past are still having
symptoms of long Covid, according to survey data collected in the first two
weeks of June, US health officials said on Wednesday.
Overall, 1 in 13 adults in the United States have long Covid
symptoms lasting for three months or more after first contracting the disease,
and which they did not have before the infection, the data showed.
The data was collected from 1-13 June by the US Census
Bureau and analyzed by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Long Covid symptoms range from fatigue, rapid heartbeat,
shortness of breath, cognitive difficulties, chronic pain, sensory
abnormalities and muscle weakness. They can be debilitating and last for weeks
or months after recovery from the initial infection.
The CDC analysis also found that younger adults were more
likely to have persistent symptoms than older adults.
Women were also more likely to have long Covid than men,
according to the study, with 9.4% of US adult women reporting long Covid symptoms
compared to 5.5% of men.
The survey found nearly 9% of Hispanic adults have long
Covid, higher than non-Hispanic white and Black adults, and more than twice the
percentage of non-Hispanic Asian adults.
There were also differences based on US states, with
Kentucky and Alabama reporting the highest percentage of adults with long Covid
symptoms, while Hawaii, Maryland and Virginia reported the lowest, according to
the survey.
- Reuters
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