What is ‘medium COVID’ and is it really a thing? Health experts aren’t convinced. | Medical Xpress

CEID Faculty Dr. Jai Marathe weighs in on Long COVID:

“The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention define ‘long COVID-19’ as a range of new, returning or ongoing health problems four or more weeks after first being infected with the coronavirus. The World Health Organization defines the condition as occurring within three months from infection with symptoms lasting for at least two months.

‘This is what makes it so hard as a clinician, because we don’t exactly understand why different people experience different symptoms,’ said Dr. Jai Marathe, an infectious disease physician and founding director of the Long COVID Clinic at Boston Medical Center. ‘The medical community is learning at the same time as the patient about why it happens and why some people are mild while others might have severe symptoms.’…”

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