Emerging Infectious Diseases (Mar 2022)

Long-Term Symptoms among COVID-19 Survivors in Prospective Cohort Study, Brazil

  • Lívia P. Bonifácio,
  • Viviane N.F. Csizmar,
  • Francisco Barbosa-Júnior,
  • Ana P.S. Pereira,
  • Marcel Koenigkam-Santos,
  • Danilo T. Wada,
  • Gilberto G. Gaspar,
  • Felipe S. Carvalho,
  • Valdes R. Bollela,
  • Rodrigo C. Santana,
  • João P. Souza,
  • Fernando Bellissimo-Rodrigues

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2803.212020
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 28, no. 3
pp. 730 – 733

Abstract

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We conducted a prospective cohort study in a population with diverse ethnic backgrounds from Brazil to assess clinically meaningful symptoms after surviving coronavirus disease. For most of the 175 patients in the study, clinically meaningful symptoms, including fatigue, dyspnea, cough, headache, and muscle weakness, persisted for >120 days after disease onset.

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