Symptoms, complications and management of long COVID: a review

🤖 Plain-English Summary

Globally, there are now over 160 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 and more than 3 million deaths. These individuals may require multidisciplinary care involving the long-term monitoring of symptoms, to identify potential complications, physical rehabilitation, mental health and social services support.

🔑 Key Findings

• While the majority of infected individuals recover, a significant proportion continue to experience symptoms and complications after their acute illness.
• Patients with 'long COVID' experience a wide range of physical and mental/psychological symptoms.
• Pooled prevalence data showed the 10 most prevalent reported symptoms were fatigue, shortness of breath, muscle pain, joint pain, headache, cough, chest pain, altered smell, altered taste and diarrhoea.

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