Dr. Howard Smith Oncall

  Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/bxjZCXdSnhs   About 27% of those contracting mild CoVid will develop chronic symptoms two months or later after their infections.  A collaborative study from UC Irvine, Indiana University, the Mayo Clinic, and the University of Miami studied 1407 non-hospitalized CoVid patients to predict which patients will become CoVid long haulers.     The early symptoms predictive of chronic CoVid are shortness of breath, cough, fever, chest pain, and diarrhea.  Persisting CoVid was more common in women than men and more common in Hispanics and whites than in Asians or Blacks.  It occurred nearly evenly among all age groups.   We know now the predictive symptoms and the groups most likely to develop chronic CoVid.  It remains to later studies to explain why.   https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.03.21252086v1   #CoVid #longhauler #chronic