Most Patients Recover From Long-COVID Symptoms Within a Year: Israeli Study

Most Patients Recover From Long-COVID Symptoms Within a Year: Israeli Study
Those with long COVID from mild COVID-19 infections will likely be rid of symptoms within a year. Shutterstock
Bill Pan
Bill Pan
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Most people who experience so-called “long COVID” as a result of mild COVID-19 infection see the symptoms fading away after a year, a large study suggests.

For the study, published on Wednesday in The BMJ, a team of Israeli scientists looked at the records of 1,913,234 patients from Maccabi Healthcare Services, a nationwide health care organization in Israel. Those patients were tested for COVID-19 from March 2020 to October 2021, before Omicron became the dominant variant of the virus.
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