China Survey Says Up to 30% of Adults Felt Long Covid Symptoms
- Fatigue, brain fog, memory loss among issues reported: study
- It’s ‘clearly a serious public health challenge in China’
A respiratory therapist works with a COVID-19 patient in the ICU in Chicago in 2022.
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Up to three in every 10 Chinese adults experienced long Covid symptoms in a survey of more than 70,000 residents, offering rare insight into the scale of lingering issues plaguing the country’s 1.4 billion people well after the dismantling of pandemic curbs triggered a case surge.
The large-scale study from the Chinese Academy of Science, published in The Lancet Regional Health this month, is the largest on long Covid in China yet conducted. Researchers used an online questionnaire to look at long Covid symptoms and SARS-CoV-2 infection status among the people, nearly all of whom were aged 18 to 60, over the course of a year.