2–3 weeks of the symptoms arising.However, many have reported debilitating symptoms that last for weeks or months, a health issue called long COVID.
Common symptoms include breathlessness, a cough, heart palpitations, exercise intolerance, fatigue, difficulty concentrating, and brain fog.
Those who were never formally diagnosed with COVID-19 can have particular difficulty convincing healthcare professionals that they have long COVID. The phenomenon appears to be more common among people who experienced more severe infections.One study of people hospitalized with COVID-19 in Italy found that 87.4% reported experiencing at least one symptom, often fatigue or shortness of breath, 2 months after discharge.Among people with milder infections,.