{"id":3951,"date":"2023-06-27T14:53:37","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T19:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=3951"},"modified":"2023-06-27T14:53:40","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T19:53:40","slug":"long-covid-answers-emerge-on-how-many-people-get-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/06\/27\/long-covid-answers-emerge-on-how-many-people-get-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Long COVID: answers emerge on how many people get better"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-023-02121-7\">Nature<\/a> <strong>Studies are shedding light on rates of recovery as well as the prevention and treatment of the complex condition.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than three years after SARS-CoV-2 began its global spread, an estimated 65 million or more people<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-023-02121-7#ref-CR1\">1<\/a><\/sup>&nbsp;are still living with the often devastating effects of long COVID \u2014 and scientists are still struggling to understand&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-022-01702-2\">this complex condition.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even the definition of long COVID, whose symptoms include headaches, fatigue, \u2018brain fog\u2019 and more, is debated. Its causes are also elusive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But researchers now have enough data to provide some preliminary answers to urgent questions about the condition, such as the timescale for possible improvement, factors that raise the risk of developing long COVID, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-022-00177-5\">what can be done to prevent it<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How many people with long COVID get better?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The answer to that question hinges in part on whether a person is classified as recovered. That, in turn, depends on the definition of long COVID, which varies widely. The World Health Organization defines it as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/publications\/i\/item\/WHO-2019-nCoV-Post_COVID-19_condition-Clinical_case_definition-2021.1\">symptoms arising within three months of infection with SARS-CoV-2 and lasting at least two months<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-022-01702-2\">although that definition is disputed<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-023-02121-7\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nature Studies are shedding light on rates of recovery as well as the prevention and treatment of the complex condition. More than three years after SARS-CoV-2 began its global spread, an estimated 65 million or more people1&nbsp;are still living with the often devastating effects of long COVID \u2014 and scientists are still struggling to understand&nbsp;this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clinical-considerations"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3952,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3951\/revisions\/3952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}