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FEBRUARY 15, 2023

One in Eight People With COVID-19 Suffer Severe Long-Term Fatigue


Originally published by our sister publication Infectious Disease Special Edition

By Marie Rosenthal, MS

One in eight people who had COVID-19 experienced fatigue that lasted three months or more, according to a recent multicenter study (Clin Infect Dis 2023 Jan ciad045 https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciad045).

“When you look at the overall number of cases of severe fatigue, one in eight patients affected with COVID had severe prolonged fatigue at three months,” said Michael Gottlieb,