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Nearly a year into the global coronavirus pandemic, scientists, doctors and patients are beginning to unlock a puzzling phenomenon: For many patients, including young ones who never required hospitalization, Covid-19 has a devastating second act.<\/p>\n

Many are dealing with symptoms weeks or months after they were expected to recover, often with puzzling new complications that can affect the entire body\u2014severe fatigue, cognitive issues and memory lapses, digestive problems, erratic heart rates, headaches, dizziness, fluctuating blood pressure, even hair loss.<\/p>\n

What is surprising to doctors is that many such cases involve people whose original cases weren\u2019t the most serious, undermining the assumption that patients with mild Covid-19 recover within two weeks. Doctors call the condition \u201cpost-acute Covid\u201d or \u201cchronic Covid,\u201d and sufferers often refer to themselves as \u201clong haulers\u201d or \u201clong-Covid\u201d patients.<\/p>\n

\u201cUsually, the patients with bad disease are most likely to have persistent symptoms, but Covid doesn\u2019t work like that,\u201d said Trisha Greenhalgh, professor of primary care at the University of Oxford and the lead author of an August BMJ study that was among the first to define chronic Covid patients as those with symptoms lasting more than 12 weeks and spanning multiple organ systems.<\/p>\n

For many such patients, she said, \u201cthe disease itself is not that bad,\u201d but symptoms like memory lapses and rapid heart rate sometimes persist for months.<\/p>\n

Read more at wsj.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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