{"id":9035,"date":"2025-03-25T17:38:36","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T22:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9035"},"modified":"2025-03-25T17:40:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T22:40:21","slug":"long-term-covid-19-is-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/03\/25\/long-term-covid-19-is-real\/","title":{"rendered":"Long-Term COVID-19 Is Real"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/Long-Term COVID-19 Is Real\">Psychology Today<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>About one-third of COVID-19 survivors suffer from a variety of symptoms long after they were first infected.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Long-term COVID-19 appears to be driven by a coronavirus persisting in the body, causing prolonged infection.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The current treatment approach is based mainly on rehabilitation therapy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Several months after the COVID-19 pandemic started, I began seeing COVID-19 survivors who suffered from a variety of symptoms long after they were first infected. They mainly complained about debilitating fatigue,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/basics\/brain-fog\">brain fog<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/basics\/memory\">memory<\/a>&nbsp;problems, difficulty concentrating, difficulty completing tasks, muscle pains, etc. Some of them were highly functioning individuals who were desperate to return to their jobs. I knew they were not malingering. They completed the neuropsychological evaluation, which showed various degrees of cognitive problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The clinical community first met the long-term COVID-19 (LTC) cluster of symptoms with skepticism. The patients were told or made to believe it was \u201cin their head.\u201d There has been little research on long-term COVID-19 and no actual treatment solutions for a long time. However, this is changing, and we are getting more research on that subject.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/Long-Term COVID-19 Is Real\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psychology Today Several months after the COVID-19 pandemic started, I began seeing COVID-19 survivors who suffered from a variety of symptoms long after they were first infected. They mainly complained about debilitating fatigue,&nbsp;brain fog,&nbsp;memory&nbsp;problems, difficulty concentrating, difficulty completing tasks, muscle pains, etc. Some of them were highly functioning individuals who were desperate to return to [&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":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psychological-and-sociological-impact"],"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\/9035","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=9035"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9037,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9035\/revisions\/9037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}