This Annual Conference of American College of Chest Physicians is being held after a gap of two years due to COVID pandemic. Experts from all over the world in the field of Pulmonary, Critical care and Sleep Medicine gather and share their expertise and views. A session on LONG COVID: IT CAN TAKE YOUR BREATH AWAY discussed long term effects of Covid.
Following are salient features. Salient features • There has been more that 61 crore confirmed cases of Covid Globally and 65 lac deaths • 19% of patients have lingering symptoms for long time • These patients have symptoms such as fatigue, loss of smell and taste, loss of appetite, fullness of stomach, bowel disturbances( Diarrhoea) body aches, depression, hair loss, sleep disturbances, `brain fog’ and chest pain • The main organ affected is Covid which leads to pneumonia and lung fibrosis leading to prolonged cough and breathlessness…
