Global prevalence of long COVID ‘substantial,’ researchers say

Researchers estimated that more than 200 million people globally suffer from long-term effects of COVID-19, according to a recent study.
“There has been substantial confusion and heterogeneity about what fraction of COVID-19-diagnosed patients struggle with post-COVID conditions after the acute symptomatic phase of infection is over. There has been substantial ambiguity in the definition of ‘long COVID’ in the literature, and only recently, WHO proposed a clinical case definition of post-COVID-19 conditions,” Spencer R. Haupert, BS, an MS candidate in biostatistics at

Researchers estimated that more than 200 million people globally suffer from long-term effects of COVID-19, according to a recent study.
“There has been substantial confusion and heterogeneity about what fraction of COVID-19-diagnosed patients struggle with post-COVID conditions after the acute symptomatic phase of infection is over. There has been substantial ambiguity in the definition of ‘long COVID’ in the literature, and only recently, WHO proposed a clinical case definition of post-COVID-19 conditions,” Spencer R. Haupert, BS, an MS candidate in biostatistics at