🌎 The most common symptom is severe and persistent fatigue.
People may also experience shortness of breath, loss of taste and smell, and other respiratory, cognitive, and sensory symptoms.
🌎 It is hard to be precise about how many people are affected, since cases of post-COVID condition are not always officially reported. @DirOPSPAHO #COVID19
🌎 Considering the millions of confirmed COVID-19 cases worldwide, hundreds of thousands of people may be affected.
This is a particularly important problem for the Americas where we have reported over 161 million COVID-19 cases over the past two years. @DirOPSPAHO #COVID19
🌎 Many patients, whether they experienced mild, severe, or critical COVID-19, still experience COVID-like symptoms for 3️⃣ months or more after their initial infection.
These are the people with post-COVID condition, also known as long COVID 🦠.
🌎 This week we saw over 1.3 million new cases of COVID-19 and 4,158 deaths in the Americas.
This represents a 13.9% increase ⬆️ in cases from one week ago. @DirOPSPAHO #COVID19
🚨🔊LIVE PAHO Press Briefing on #COVID19🦠in the Americas 🌎 June 29, 2022😷💉 twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
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