#Long_COVID: answers emerge on how many people get better
▻https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02121-7
For a study2 published in May, researchers followed 1,106 adults who caught SARS-CoV-2 before vaccines were available. After six months, 22.9% of them still had symptoms. This fell to 18.5% at one year and 17.2% after two years.
“As soon as it’s 12 months, it plateaus,” says study co-author Tala Ballouz, an epidemiologist at the University of Zurich in Switzerland. “You have a higher chance of recovery during the first year, and after one year it really becomes more of a chronic condition.”
In another study3 published in May, biostatistician Andrea Foulkes at Massachusetts General Hospital Biostatistics in Boston and her colleagues reported that one-third of people who had long COVID six months after infection no longer had it at nine months
