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THURSDAY, June 6, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- Long COVID continues to plague millions of Americans as the health costs of the pandemic linger four years later, a new report warns. In a hefty document released Wednesday, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, a nongovernmental group that advises federal agencies on science and medicine, detailed the damage that Long COVID has wrought. “Diagnosing, measuring and treating Long COVID is complicated.

This disease, which has existed in humans for less than five years, can present differently from person to person and can either resolve within weeks or persist for months or years,” Dr. Paul Volberding , chair of the committee that wrote the report, said in a news release announcing the findings. “Our report seeks to offer a clear summary of what research has found so far about diagnosing Long COVID, and what the disease can mean for an individual’s ability to function in their daily lives,” added Volberding, who is also a professor emeritus in the department of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.



What did the report discover? “Long COVID can impact people across the life span, from children to older adults, as well as across sex, gender, racial, ethnic and other demographic groups,” it stated. And the damage it inflicts can be widespread and complicated. “Long COVID is associated with a wide range of new or worsening health conditions and encompasses more than 200 symptoms inv.

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