10%-20% people experience mild, long effects after Covid recovery: Expert
Management of patients with long Covid is usually symptomatic and requires a multidisciplinary team approach with personalized rehabilitation said Rajshri Khot.

Management of patients with long Covid is usually symptomatic and requires a multidisciplinary team approach with personalized rehabilitation said Rajshri Khot.
Three years after the Covid pandemic began and affected over 500 million people, there is evidence that 'long Covid' - the term used to describe debilitating symptoms that drag on for months in some patients after the viral infection ends - lasts for less than a year.
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"A lot of patients with comorbidities like chronic kidney disease, stroke, hypertension are also contracting Covid and their pre-existing condition is worsening after getting infected with Covid," he added.
The researchers also found that children infected with COVID-19 before the emergence of the Delta variant were more at risk of developing long COVID.
While SARS-CoV-2 is typically an acute illness lasting about three weeks, some people with Covid have symptoms that last months or longer. The World Health Organisation (WHO) defines long Covid as symptoms that last 12 weeks or longer.
The state currently has 1678 active patients, 360 covid positives identified were added on Monday taking the tally to 11,56,519 while the death toll changed to 14044 after a patient died on July 11.
"Vaccination makes sure that we have enough antibodies to fight the virus. Fever occurs when the antibodies proliferate to fight the virus." said Bhowmick.
People who were infected with an earlier version of the coronavirus and received three doses of an mRNA vaccine, such as the Pfizer/BioNTech shot, appear to be best protected against symptomatic infection by the Omicron variant, according to a large study.
The most common long Covid symptom was respiratory trouble (89.3%), followed by post-acute fatigue syndrome (78.9%) and cognitive syndrome (55.2%). Globally, more women (63.2%) than men were affected by long Covid - found in Study.
Malaria fevers are high-grade & cyclic. They appear will chills that make a patient shiver.