(KNSI) — CentraCare officials are warning about the unknown long-term effects survivors of COVID-19 can face.
John Hopkins University says around 45 million people have tested positive for COVID. CentraCare CEO Ken Holmen says an estimated 12 to 14 million survivors of COVID will endure Long Haul COVID syndrome.
“This is a long-lasting syndrome that’s characterized by a number of chronic ailments that are significant and life-altering.”
Dr. Holmen talked about the symptoms.
“Shortness of breath, fatigue, cardiac dysfunction, and decreases in appetite decreases in mental capacity.”
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, other common lasting symptoms are cough, joint pain, depression, muscle pain, headache, and intermittent fever.
The National Institutes of Health refers to long-term COVID-19 symptoms as PASC, which stands for post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2. More common terms are post-COVID syndrome, long COVID, or long-term COVID. People living with the post-COVID syndrome are sometimes known as “long haulers.”
There is no definite length of time long haul COVID can last. According to John Hopkins University, more than 724,000 Americans have died from COVID-19 related complications.
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