{"id":9836,"date":"2025-07-02T17:05:29","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T22:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9836"},"modified":"2025-07-02T17:05:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T22:05:39","slug":"long-covid-rates-higher-in-women-evidence-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/07\/02\/long-covid-rates-higher-in-women-evidence-grows\/","title":{"rendered":"Long COVID Rates Higher in Women: Evidence Grows"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medscape.com\/viewarticle\/long-covid-rates-higher-women-evidence-grows-2025a1000hkl\">Medscape<\/a> When Brazilian scientist&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/let%C3%ADcia-soares-b952a8282\/?originalSubdomain=br\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Let\u00edcia Soares, opens in a new window\">Let\u00edcia Soares<\/a>&nbsp;contracted COVID-19 in April 2020, she was in the final stretch of her postdoctoral studies in disease ecology at a Canadian university. By August, she was bedbound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What began as piercing migraines quickly escalated into a cascade of long COVID symptoms \u2014 gastrointestinal distress, sleeplessness, joint and muscle pain, and crushing fatigue. For Soares and many other women with long COVID, it also included sudden menstrual changes that exacerbated her other symptoms.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medscape When Brazilian scientist&nbsp;Let\u00edcia Soares&nbsp;contracted COVID-19 in April 2020, she was in the final stretch of her postdoctoral studies in disease ecology at a Canadian university. By August, she was bedbound. What began as piercing migraines quickly escalated into a cascade of long COVID symptoms \u2014 gastrointestinal distress, sleeplessness, joint and muscle pain, and crushing [&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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid"],"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\/9836","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=9836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9837,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9836\/revisions\/9837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}