Persistent Covid or prolonged covid is a disease increasingly common among patients who have been infected with Covid-19. A disorder, whose symptoms make it difficult for people who suffer from it to live on a daily basis.
Also, after several waves of coronavirus, it is common for many people have been infected more than once since the beginning of the pandemic, although with the complete vaccination schedule and the booster dose, the disease now has a milder course.
Reinfection and persistent Covid are two aspects that science continues to investigate. But can they influence one another? How many more infections are there more risk of contracting persistent Covid? Pilar Rodríguez Ledo, vice president of the Spanish Society of General and Family Physicians (SEMG), clarifies these doubts in an interview with Europa Press.
Am I more at risk of persistent Covid if I have been infected several times?
In this sense, Dr. Pilar Rodríguez Ledo clarifies that for the moment not enough knowledge about itwhich emphasizes the importance of being prudent.
“Having Covid-19 once or twice and not developing persistent Covid, does not prevent another subsequent contagion from developing. This is like when you buy the lottery, the more numbers you buy, the more likely you are to win; although the overall probability is still low, but it exists. We cannot protect ourselves behind the certainty that it has never happened to us, because this is not consistent. Yes there are cases that develop it in the second or third contagion“, maintains the expert
Of course, alert that pPeople with serious chronic pathology have an added riskand the same thing happens with Covid-19, as he highlights: “We must continue to protect ourselves to reduce infections as much as possible because, for now, deaths continue to occur and there are patients who develop persistent Covid.”
One in eight people who have overcome the coronavirus suffer from persistent Covid
On the other hand, the data warns that it is increasingly common to develop persistent Covid after overcoming the disease. medical news magazine ‘The Lancet’ has published a new study suggesting that one in eight people infected with COVID-19 suffer from long-term symptoms.
The research, which has been carried out as part of the Dutch initiative Lifelines Corona Research Initiativehas made a comparison of symptoms that patients suffered in the long term after being infected by the SARS-CoV-2 virus and those suffered by an uninfected part of the population.
Having added the data of people who they have not been infectedmake that the prevalence prediction of long-term symptoms is much more precise and that the symptomatology of persistent Covid is easier to identify.
“There is an urgent need for data that informs the scale and extent of long-term symptoms experienced by some patients after COVID-19 disease,” says the paper’s lead author and professor at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. ) Judith Rosmalen. “However, most previous research on prolonged COVID has not looked at the frequency of these symptoms in people who have not been diagnosed with COVID-19 or looked at individual patient symptoms prior to COVID-19 diagnosis.” .
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