{"id":3732,"date":"2023-05-30T22:23:53","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T03:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=3732"},"modified":"2023-05-30T22:23:57","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T03:23:57","slug":"1-in-10-people-get-long-covid-after-omicron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/05\/30\/1-in-10-people-get-long-covid-after-omicron\/","title":{"rendered":"1 in 10 People Get Long COVID After Omicron"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6283028\/long-covid-after-omicron\/?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=editorial&amp;utm_term=health_covid-19&amp;linkId=217210165\">Time Magazine<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>About 10% of people appear to suffer Long COVID after an omicron infection, a lower estimate than earlier in the pandemic, according to a study of nearly 10,000 Americans that aims to help unravel the mysterious condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Early findings from the National Institutes of Health\u2019s study highlight a dozen symptoms that most distinguish Long COVID, the catchall term for the sometimes debilitating health problems that can last for months or years after even a mild case of COVID-19. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Millions worldwide have had Long COVID, with dozens of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6263356\/long-covid-treatment-prevention\/\">widely varying symptoms including fatigue and brain fog<\/a>. Scientists still don\u2019t know what causes it, why it only strikes some people, how to treat it\u2014or even how to best diagnose it. Better defining the condition is key for research to get those answers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSometimes I hear people say, \u2019Oh, everybody\u2019s a little tired,&#8217;\u201d said Dr. Leora Horwitz of NYU Langone Health, one of the study authors. \u201cNo, there\u2019s something different about people who have Long COVID and that\u2019s important to know.\u201d The new research, published Thursday in the\u00a0<em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jama\/fullarticle\/2805540\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of the American Medical Association<\/a><\/em>, includes more than 8,600 adults who had COVID-19 at different points in the pandemic, comparing them to another 1,100 who hadn\u2019t been infected. By some estimates, roughly 1 in 3 of COVID-19 patients have experienced Long COVID. That\u2019s similar to NIH study participants who reported getting sick before the Omicron variant began spreading in the U.S. in December 2021. That\u2019s also when the study opened, and researchers noted that people who already had Long COVID symptoms might have been more likely to enroll.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6283028\/long-covid-after-omicron\/?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=editorial&amp;utm_term=health_covid-19&amp;linkId=217210165\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time Magazine About 10% of people appear to suffer Long COVID after an omicron infection, a lower estimate than earlier in the pandemic, according to a study of nearly 10,000 Americans that aims to help unravel the mysterious condition. 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