Two thirds of COVID survivors report persistent symptoms 4 weeks laterA new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study shows that 65.9% of a sample of US adults who tested positive for COVID-19 reported at least one lingering symptom more than a month later.The study, published today in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), involved online nonprobability sampling of 3,135 community-dwelling adults who had been tested for COVID-19 since Jan 2020.
Of the participants, 698 reported a diagnosis of COVID-19, while 2,437 said they tested negative. The sampling took place from Apr 9 to 23, 2021.Among respondents who tested positive, 86.5% reported initial symptoms, compared with 61.7% of those who tested negative.Relative to