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COVID patients are 4.3 times more likely to develop chronic fatigue, CDC report finds (abcnews.go.com)

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Women and older people were at higher risk of developing chronic fatigue.

COVID-19 patients are at least four times more likely to develop chronic fatigue than someone who has not had the virus, a new federal study published Wednesday suggests.

Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) looked at electronic health records from the University of Washington of more than 4,500 patients with confirmed COVID-19 between February 2020 and February 2021.

They were followed for a median of 11.4 months and their health data was compared with the data of more than 9,000 non-COVID-19 patients with similar characteristics.

Fatigue developed in 9% of the COVID patients, the team found. Among COVID-19 patients, the rate of new cases of fatigue was 10.2 per 100 person-years and the rate of new cases of chronic fatigue was 1.8 per 100 person-years.

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[–] kerrigan778@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Note this study tracked people who got Covid early, likely pre-vaccine and definitely pre Delta and Omicron variants and sub variants. It confirms and quantifies what we already knew, that Covid can cause CFS. This will allow us in future to track how the vaccine and the seemingly less severe variants and sub variants differ from the unvaccinated hit from the initial strain, as well as seeing if Paxlovid or other treatments also reduce this risk. First and very important step for future science is establishing a baseline.