Covid-19: Third of people infected have long term symptoms

Abstract

“Long covid is still poorly understood, but we hope throughour research thatwe can contribute to better identification and management of this condition, which our data and others’ suggest may ultimately affect millions of people in the UK alone.” The authors suggested various possible reasons why women seemed to be more likely to have long covid symptoms. Fellow report author Helen Ward, professor of public health at Imperial, told The BMJ, “There are a lot of theories. It may be that it is to do with a more active immune response in women that reduces symptoms initially but then produces prolonged symptoms.”