While your recovery time from COVID-19 may not have been longer than a week or so, experts say you could feel the lasting effects of the disease for up to two years.
It is called long COVID, and experts say it affects roughly one in five Americans.
The list of potential symptoms is long and includes fatigue, chest pain, heart palpitations, depression and joint pain, but doctors say long COVID may not affect everyone the same way. In most cases, though, the length of symptoms is closely connected to the severity.
According to the Center for Disease Control, there is no test to determine if your symptoms are those of long COVID. They explain that symptoms which occur at least four weeks after infection from COVID is when long COVID could begin to be identified.
That survey found that 17.4 percent of Kentuckians experienced long COVID nationwide. That number sits at a little over 15 percent.
Kentucky Commissioner for Public Health Dr. Steven Stack explains there is no cure for long COVID, and the best thing we can do is focus on prevention.
That includes continuing to take COVID seriously, staying home if you are sick and getting vaccinated.
Source: WBKO
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