(MedPageToday) People with acute respiratory illness during the pandemic suffered similar levels of poor well-being in the months afterward whether they tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 or not, a registry study showed. In a cohort of people who all had initial symptoms suggestive of COVID-19, those who had moderate to severe scores at 3 months on the pain, mood, and other quality-of-life measures on the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) scale were actually less likely to have tested positive for the coronavirus as to have had other causes of illness (39.6% vs 53.5%, P<0.001)
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