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People may suffer ‘long colds’ more than four weeks after infection, study shows | Medical research (www.theguardian.com)

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I had a cold last month, but I'm still getting rid of a mild cough. This seems pretty timely for me.

The findings suggest there may be long-lasting health impacts after non-Covid acute respiratory infections such as colds, influenza, or pneumonia, that have been going unrecognised.

However, the researchers do not yet have evidence suggesting that the symptoms have the same severity or duration as long Covid.

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[-] ieightpi@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

The article is confusing. Are they saying COVID causes long colds? In other words now that COVID is like the common cold when you get it, they are just saying you have mild long COVID I think?

[-] fubo@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The visibility of long-COVID has led people to reevaluate whether other viruses cause "long" syndromes. It looks like rhinovirus (aka "the common cold") can, too.

There are other viruses that were already known to cause "long" symptoms, often due to damage caused to the nervous system by the virus or the immune response. Post-polio syndrome has been known for a long time, for example.