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

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

You mean some people didn’t get COVID?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I've never had it

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Me either...as far as I know. Haven't had symptoms or tested positive yet, anyway.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

For what it's worth, I only had it for the first time last December. Hit me like a truck, though, still not fully recovered.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Hey I might have that. I've had some tests done but nothing was out of the ordinary according to those, I've just had this massive fatigue after getting sick earlier this year.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Women and older people were at higher risk

You can just hear the chances of any further development crash and burn.. 🙄

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

i dont think cfs is permanent.
but yeah.. doctors or getting disability is pretty hopeless.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I have cfs not from Covid. It's permanent. There are treatments that are at least good enough to allow me to work full time, but I'll need medication for the rest of my life

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

ME/CFS is typically permanent and responds only slightly to moderately well to treatment.